Box Score

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Joe Devin scored his third overtime game-winner of the season as the Cornell men's hockey team scored a 3-2 win over Quinnipiac in game three of the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals at Lynah Rink on Sunday night. The win lifts Cornell into the semifinals of the ECAC Hockey tournament, where the Big Red will face Dartmouth in a 7:30 p.m. contest on Friday in Atlantic City, N.J.

Devin scored the game-winner at the 10:41 mark of the first overtime, taking a cross-ice pass from Sean Whitney and roofing a shot over the shoulder of Eric Hartzell before skating toward the blue line and throwing his gloves into the air in celebration. The goal was the second of the night for the senior, who tallied four of the five Cornell goals during the series.

Patrick Kennedy scored the other goal of the contest for Cornell, with Mathieu Brisson, Kirill Gotovets, Greg Miller, Tyler Roeszler, Sean Collins and Whitney each picking up an assist. Mike Garman picked up his second victory of the playoffs, making 37 saves in the win as Cornell went 1-for-2 on the power play. 

Scott Zurevinski and Yuri Bourharevich scored goals for the Bobcats, whose season ends at 16-15-8. Zach Davies, Connor Jones, Spencer Heichman and Zach Currie each recorded an assist for Quinnipiac, with netminder Hartzell stopping 29 shots on the night.

Kennedy got the Big Red on the scoreboard first with his second goal of the year, firing a shot from the top of the circle to the left of Hartzell that deflected off the stick of Zach Hansen and past Hartzell at the 3:13 mark of the period.

Cornell added to the lead in the second period with Devin's 16th goal, crashing the net on a rush with the Big Red on the power play and poking home a pass from Miller, giving Cornell the 2-0 lead at the 12:30 mark of the period, a lead that Cornell took into the third period.

In the third, though, the Bobcats mounted a comeback. Zurevinski got Quinnipiac on  the board at the 8:56 mark of the period, knocking home a puck inside the near post after a rebound from a Davies shot to cut the deficit in half. Then, with 6:13 to play, Bourharevich ripped a shot from the slot after taking a pass from Heichman that beat Garman and tied the game at two, sending it into overtime, where the stage was set for Devin's overtime heroics.

The Big Red will now face Dartmouth in the semifinals of the league tournament on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Yale will take on upstart Colgate, the 12th seed in the tournament, in the first semifinal on Friday at 4 p.m. Each of the four semifinalists needed a game three on Sunday to earn their spot into the championship weekend.