{"id":3268,"date":"2002-03-02T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2002-03-02T17:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2002\/03\/02\/panthers-top-colby-to-reach-nescac-title-game\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:54:41","slug":"panthers-top-colby-to-reach-nescac-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/2002\/03\/02\/panthers-top-colby-to-reach-nescac-title-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers Top Colby To Reach NESCAC Title Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Cooper&#8217;s redirection of a Ryan Constantine pass with 53 seconds left became the game winner, lifting Middlebury to a 4-2 win over Colby Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Constantine&#8217;s pass came from the left wing, while Cooper was on the doorstep for the deflection. The Panthers advance to take on Trinity, a 3-2 winner over Bowdoin, in the NESCAC final.<\/p>\n<p>Colby opened the scoring at the 6:36 mark as Nate Stanglein wristed home a rebound after an outside shot from Paul Nahigian. <\/p>\n<p>The Panthers tied the game at 13:08 when Constantine hit Mike Kennedy with a great breakaway pass at the blue line as Kennedy beat Chris Ries with a shot to the top right corner. <\/p>\n<p>Colby regained the lead midway through the second period when Mike Dalton redirected a pass sent toward the net by Cory Ernst for a power-play goal, but Middlebury tied the game 4:16 into the third period when Andrew Helming scored from a tough angle on the left wing after a rebound from a Patrick Nugent shot. <\/p>\n<p>Robert Chisholm added an empty-netter after Cooper&#8217;s winner.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Carlsson made 14 saves in goal for Middlebury, while Ries had 29 for Colby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Cooper&#8217;s redirection of a Ryan Constantine pass with 53 seconds left became the game winner, lifting Middlebury to a 4-2 win over Colby Saturday. Constantine&#8217;s pass came from the left wing, while Cooper was on the doorstep for the deflection. The Panthers advance to take on Trinity, a 3-2 winner over Bowdoin, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}