Juniors Greg Lapointe and Ty Naaykens each scored for the Saints, who saw their late-game comeback fall short as the St. Lawrence University men's hockey team fell 3-2 to Colgate on Saturday night in Hamilton, N.Y.

St. Lawrence fell to 8-15-3 on the year and 6-7-1 in ECAC play, while the Raiders improved to 11-12-3 and 8-5-1 in league play.

The opening period of the game was one marred with power plays with three chances in the opening 20. Colgate earned the first chance of the frame and would cash in as Ross Mitton scored moments into the man advantage to give Colgate the 1-0 lead.

St. Lawrence would get the next chance and would come up empty, while the Raiders saw their second power play get almost all the way killed in the final two minutes of the first period.

The Raiders would have eight seconds of power play time to start the second, but 11 seconds after the kill, Colgate would strike again offensively to take a 2-0 lead.

Ben Kraws would make a huge save at the five-minute mark of the second period to keep the Saints in the game and help flip the momentum in favor of the Scarlet and Brown.

Following the big-time save, Reilly Moran and Nicholas Trela produced a pair of great chances in front of Carter Gylander, followed by Max Dorrington, and Lapointe, who each nearly cut into the two-goal deficit.

The dam doors would finally break open 6:55 into the second period when a pass from senior captain Josh Boyer to Trela started a scoring play for the Saints. Trela would get the puck up the ice and eventually to Lapointe, who wired a shot past Gylander to make it a 2-1 game.

The one-goal game stood for another three minutes and change until another St. Lawrence penalty ended up with a Colgate power play goal making it a 3-1 game.

Felikss Gavars and Drake Burgin would get good looks to close the second, but the Saints could not cut into the deficit further in the middle frame.

St. Lawrence would once again make it a one-goal game just 2:48 into the third off a connection between three Winnipeg natives. Burgin and Mason Waite would connect and eventually find fellow Manitoban Naaykens in the slot, who one-timed the shot past Gylander to make it 3-2.

Kraws would come up big once again late in the third when a turnover ended up with a Mitton breakaway that was stymied by the graduate student.

With three minutes left in the game, the Saints pulled Kraws for an extra-skater and peppered the Colgate goal in search of an equalizer. Tyler Cristall, Gavars, and Jan Olenginski amongst others all had terrific scoring looks in the fury that produced seven shots on goal and 14 shot attempts, but St. Lawrence was unable to score the game-tying goal.

Kraws finished with 20 saves in the contest, while Gylander came up with 23.

Special teams were a decider in the game with the Saints going 0-for-2 and the Raiders going 2-for-4.

The Scarlet and Brown will head back to Canton where they will begin prepping for next weekend when the team hosts Quinnipiac and Princeton at Appleton Arena.