Colgate took it 4-2, and the middle period did the work. The Raiders turned a 1-1 first intermission score into a 3-1 lead with the only two goals of the second.
The opening twenty went 1-1, with neither side separating. Colgate's two-goal second was the turning point, and though the teams traded in the third, RIT never got closer than the 4-2 final.
The number that frames it: 2-0 in the second period. That was the entire margin — Colgate matched RIT 1-1 in both the first and the third.
