ITHACA, N.Y. – Jeff Teat capped off a brilliant rookie season with a trifecta – a single-game freshman scoring record, a single-season freshman scoring mark, and a win over archrival Princeton. His 12-point day led the Big Red to an 18-17 shootout victory over the No. 13 Tigers on Senior Day, giving Cornell its first win over a ranked opponent this season and sending the home team into the offseason with five wins in its final eight games, none bigger than the season finale.
 
Teat posted five goals and seven assists on the day to record the third-highest single-game point total in Cornell history while surpassing Rob Pannell's first-year mark of 67 with his final tally of 72. His 12 points are the most recorded by a Big Red player in 40 years, matching Tim Goldstein's mark of 12 points vs. Hobart in 1987, and he did it with Goldstein in the crowd cheering on the Big Red.  
 
Teat also won the head-to-head matchup with the nation's top-scoring rookie, Princeton's Michael Sowers, who holds the Ivy League record for points in a season by a freshman with 77 and counting after a seven-point day himself (three goals, four assists).
 
As a game that features 35 combined goals dictates, there were many that played hero for the Big Red in the win. Jake McCulloch had a career-high six goals, including the game-winner with 2:24 to play. Clarke Petterson had a goal and four assists and Jordan Dowiak also registered a hat trick, and his lone assist on the day set up McCulloch's game-winner.
 
Freshman Paul Rasimowicz won 20-of-38 face-offs and secured 13 ground balls and Christian Knight made 10 saves, none bigger than his stop on Austin Sims at the buzzer to cap off a wild final five minutes suitable for a wild game.
               
Cornell used an 8-1 run, with Teat having a hand in six of the tallies, to go up by six goals (15-9) with 7:37 to play in the third period. But Princeton answered right back, scoring the final four goals of the quarter and the first of the fourth to pull within one (15-14) with just over 13 minutes to play. Teat fed McCulloch to restore a two-goal cushion to the home team, but back-to-back goals from Sean Connors and Gavin McBride tied the game at 16-16 with 4:51 on the clock.
 
Less than 30 seconds later, McCulloch put Cornell back up by one, but Zach Currier won the restart and fed McBride for his fifth goal of the game as the contest was tied for the eighth and final time.
 
Cornell won the ensuing face-off on a violation and used a deliberate offensive possession that resulted in McCulloch's game-winner.
 
Princeton had one last opportunity after Cornell had a shot clock put on and Tyler Blaisdell made his 10th save of the contest to give the Tigers the ball back with 34 seconds to play. The Big Red's defense had its best stand of the day when it needed it most, getting the ball on the ground and forcing a scrum. Eventually, a flag was thrown and Princeton would have its eighth man-up chance of the game with 2.3 showing on the clock. Sims had a shot from 15-yards out, but Knight made the stop to earn the win.
 
COACHES CORNER – MATT KERWICK
I'm very proud of how we finished the season here today. I'm extremely excited for our seniors to leave beating our rival Princeton and to do it in that type of game … We recognized (the seniors) on Monday out on the field before practice and we said 'Let's make a vow to them to play as hard as we can for these guys because they've earned it.' It's not easy here at Cornell. It is a tough for years. They've earned a lot of respect from me and the younger guys in that locker room because of that. And we wanted to send them out the right way.
 
FACTS & FIGURES
• The Big Red assisted on 15-of-18 goals (.833) and has now assisted on at least 65 percent of its goals in six consecutive games.
• Cornell held the edge in shots (42-39) and shots on goal (28-27).
• Princeton won more ground balls (40-33), despite the Big Red holding the 20-38 edge in face-offs.
• Both teams were solid on the clear, with Cornell going 17-of-20 and the Tigers clearing 15-of-17.
• The Big Red converted 1-of-2 man-up chances.
• Princeton went 2-of-8 on man-up opportunities.
• The Tigers finished with three more turnovers than Cornell (12-9).
 
NOTES TO KNOW
• It was the 22nd one-goal game in the history of the series, and the fifth since 2010.
• The 35 combined points were the most in a Cornell/Princeton game in the history of the series, surpassing 28 points, reached twice before – 1985 (Cornell, 23-5) and 2013 (Cornell, 17-11).
• Cornell's 18 goal performance is tied for fourth most all-time in the series vs. the Tigers, and the most since scoring 17 in the 2013 season.
• Princeton's 17 goal performance is tied for the third most all-time in the series with the Big Red, and the most since scoring 17 in the 2003 season.  
• The win over No. 13 Princeton extends Cornell's current streak of 19 consecutive seasons with at least one win over a nationally ranked opponent.