HAMILTON, N.Y. – In a game that featured six ties through the middle quarters, the Colgate men's lacrosse team ended the third and opened the fourth quarters with five unanswered goals to pull away for the 14-11 victory over the Big Red at Andy Kerr Stadium. With the win, the Raiders improve to 3-0, while Cornell slips to 0-1.
 
Jeff Teat picked right where he left off following an All-American rookie campaign, contributing on seven of the Big Red's 11 points with four goals and three assists. Junior Clarke Petterson added two goals and two assists, while classmate Jake McCulloch registered a hat trick. Jordan Dowiak (one goal, one assist) and Connor Fletcher (one goal) rounded out the scoring for the Big Red.
 
In goal, senior Christian Knight finished with 10 saves for his fifth consecutive game in double digits.
 
Colgate was led by the potent midfield duo of Griffin Brown (six goals, one assist) and Nicky Petkevich (two goals, four assists).
 
The Raiders controlled the game at the face-off circle with Collin Orr winning 22-of-29 restarts. However, Orr won very few cleanly, as Cornell sophomore FOGO Paul Rasimowicz managed to make nearly every draw a 50-50 scrum.  Unfortunately for the visitors, nearly every loose ball was picked up by the home team as Colgate finished with 33 ground balls to the Big Red's 17.
 
Both teams took care of the ball, but Cornell did show some early season rust with five of its nine turnovers coming on the clear (12-of-17).
 
Colgate won the first seven faceoffs of the game and built a 4-1 lead before three unanswered, all of which were either scored or assisted on by Teat, knotted the game at the end of the first quarter.
 
The teams traded the next eight goals before Teat scored an unassisted goal to hand the Big Red its first lead of the game (9-8) at the 10:42 mark of the third quarter.  
 
Colgate responded on its next possession and the teams traded goals again before Brown made it a 10-10 game heading into the fourth quarter, the first of four straight for the midfielder. The Raiders added one last tally to make it a 14-10 game with 6:30 to play.
 
Fletcher capped the scoring with an unassisted goal with 3:51 to play.
 
Cornell will take on its oldest rival in its home opener against Hobart on Schoellkopf Field on Saturday, Feb. 24 at 1 p.m.