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TROY, N.Y. – The Cornell men's hockey team couldn't capitalize on early chances before eventually falling to Rensselaer, 3-0, on Saturday night at Houston Field House.
 
The Big Red was blanked for the fourth time this season despite earning three power plays in the first period of Saturday's contest. Cornell (7-8-2, 5-5 ECAC Hockey) created plenty of opportunities on the man advantage, but couldn't finish any of them. The visitors then had their best chance to grab the game's first goal in the sixth minute of the period with junior defenseman Reece Willcox entering the right side of the Engineers' zone. He slid a perfect feed to senior forward Cole Bardreau skating toward the far post, but Kasdorf stretched to get his right toe on the one-timer.
 
RPI (9-16-1, 7-6) seemed to feed off the save, scoring just two minutes later. Luke Curadi took a shot from the left point that was stopped by sophomore goaltender Mitch Gillam, but the rebound popped into the slot. Jake Wood muscled his way past the defender and got a whack at the rebound, popping a backhand off the top of Gillam's glove and fluttering over the goal line.
 
The Engineers, which defeated Colgate on Friday night, then assured themselves of a weekend sweep with a pair of goals in a span of less than two minutes early in the third period. After a busted breakout, Jacob Laliberté was wide open on the door step to deflect a point shot between Gillam's legs at the 3:50 mark. Jared Wilson then finished off a two-on-one at 5:38 to give RPI a 3-0 lead.
 
The Big Red pulled its goalie for the final 3:44 left peppered the Engineers' goal in hopes of breaking Kasdorf's shutout, but RPI's goalie stood tall — including a point-blank glove save on senior forward Madison Dias with 51 seconds remaining. Kasdorf made 26 saves for his first clean sheet of the season and fifth of his career.
 
Cornell will return home for five of its next six games, including Ivy League contests next weekend against Harvard on Friday and Dartmouth on Sunday.