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CANTON, N.Y. – Junior forwards Joel Lowry and Brian Ferlin each had two goals and one assist, and the No. 19 Men's Hockey team used a four-goal first period to skate away with a 5-2 road victory Saturday night at No. 17 St. Lawrence.
 
Junior forward John McCarron had a goal and one assist, and senior forward Dustin Mowrey added three assists for the Big Red, which improved to 4-3-1 overall and 2-3-1 in ECAC Hockey. Cornell's power play, which entered the night ranked second in the nation while converting at better than 30 percent, was 2-for-5 on the night.
 
The Big Red sprinted out to a 4-1 lead in the first 15 minutes, 8 seconds, thanks in large part to a pair of power-play goals from Lowry. The first came at the 5:39 mark, when he took a cross-ice pass from Ferlin and buried a shot from the left circle. St. Lawrence then equalized on its first power play of the game, with Greg Carey pinging a shot off the far post from the top of the right circle.
 
But Cornell poured in the final three goals of the frame. Just 44 seconds after Carey's strike – and precisely at the midway mark of the period – Lowry scored for a second time. McCarron won a battle in the right corner, and Mowrey fed the puck to Lowry in the right circle for a shot into the top corner near side.
 
Just 86 seconds later, the Big Red took its first two-goal lead of the night with its first even-strength tally of the weekend. Mowrey got a piece of an SLU breakout pass on the right wing and Reece Willcox won control of the puck on the half wall. He dealt to Ferlin toward the middle, and his shot over the glove gave Cornell a 3-1 lead and chased St. Lawrence starting goalie Matt Weninger.
 
Scoring in the five-goal first period was then capped off by McCarron with 4:52 left before the intermission. On a line rush, Lowry set up Jeff Kubiak for a shot from the high slot. Relief goalie Tyler Parks fought it off, but McCarron dug away at the post to the goaltender's left and stuffed in the rebound. It was Cornell's first four-goal period since Jan. 30, 2010, when it used a four-goal second period to defeat Clarkson, 5-3, at Lynah Rink.
 
The frenetic pace continued in the second period, but most of the scoring did not. St. Lawrence did, however, cut into the Cornell lead with a goal 2:46 into the stanza. Sean McGovern tucked the puck into the net with a move to the backhand on a breakaway, leaving the Big Red's lead at 4-2.
 
Cornell put six shots on Parks in the period, but none defeated the 6-foot-6 freshman. McCarron was stopped on the doorstep at the 5:00 mark, then Matt Buckles made a bid at 12:45 off a Teemu Tiitinen feed that was shrugged away by Parks. The Big Red did kill off consecutive power plays in the period, including five seconds of its second two-man disadvantage of the game, running its streak of consecutive three-on-five penalty kills to 14.
 
Senior goalie Andy Iles made 22 saves for the victory. His finest save in the third period came when he stopped a McGovern tip-in attempt with 9:23 to play.
 
Ferlin then iced the game with his second goal of the game with 1:53 to play. Jacob MacDonald sent the puck down the right wing wall to Mowrey, who found Ferlin toward the middle. His shot beat Parks along the ice inside the far post. Ferlin and Lowry are now tied for the team lead in goals with five.
 
Coming off a season-high four consecutive games on the road, the Big Red will return home for its next three games. Cornell will host a pair of Ivy League games next weekend against Brown on Friday and defending national champion Yale on Saturday. The Big Red will then play its only weeknight game of the season Tuesday, Nov. 26, when it takes on Niagara. Opening faceoff for all three games is at 7 p.m.