Montclair, NJ – Colorado College's Coby Petau scored off a feed from Robbie Stern with two seconds remaining in overtime as the Tigers rallied from eight goals down in the first half for a 13-12 victory over Montclair State at Sprague Field on Sunday.

Stern finished with four goals as Colorado College made is a successful East Coast trip with its second one-goal win in three days. The Tigers edged Elizabethtown 7-6 on Friday and are now 12-1 on the year having gone unbeaten since a 15-10 loss to No. 16 Roanoke in the season opener on February 16.

MATT HAEMMERLE scored five goals and finished with eight points for Montclair State (7-5), which had its three-game winning streak snapped. DAN BELLEZZA tallied six points on four goals and two assists while BRADY WULSTER added three goals and two assists.

The Red Hawks came out on fire in the first quarter with four goals in the first four minutes of the contest. Haemmerle set up Wulster for the first 59 seconds in and then scored three straight with Bellezza assisting on the last two for a 4-0 lead with 10:42 left.

After the Tigers got on the board, Montclair scored the final four to open up an 8-1 lead. Haemmerle had the first and Bellezza the next two, including a man-up goal with 29 seconds left. Haemmerle then beat the first quarter Horn with his fourth goal.

Wulster made it a 9-1 game with 2:04 gone by in the second quarter but the Tigers cut that lead to 9-4 midway through the period on a Stern goal. MSU got another late goal, this one from Bellezza with 10 seconds to play as the Red Hawks took a 10-4 lead into the break. Bellezza's final goal to begin the third gave MSU a seven-goal advantage however Colorado College made its move.
Five straight goals, including back-to-back by Tyler Borko closed the gap to 11-9 with nine seconds left. Montclair's MATT AXMANN won the draw and sprinted down the field finding Wulster for a score with two tick to play as MSU led 12-9 heading into the final quarter.

The Tigers second-half offensive onslaught continued into the fourth as Colorado College tied the game at 12-12 with 4:35 left on Stern's fourth of the contest.  The game would stay that way as Montclair's JACK CARDEW came up with two key stops in the final 90 seconds with PJ Offner denying Sean Stadlander with a second to play.

In the OT, the Red Hawks won the faceoff and got off the first shot which went just wide. Cardew made a stop with 2:15 left however the Red Hawks turned the ball over with 1:16 remaining. The Tigers sent two shots wide and had possession of the ball with four seconds. Off the restart, Stern flipped a pass from the left side to the doorstep for Petau who flipped the feed past Cardew for the game-winning goal.

Offner made 12 saves for Colorado College after coming in for an injured Andrew Harwood in the first quarter.

Cardew totaled a career-best 18 saves. WILSON SMITH had two caused turnovers and three ground balls for the Red Hawks. Axmann was 13-f-23 on faceoffs with a team-best seven ground balls.
Montclair returns to action on Wednesday, April 25 as it hosts intra-state and No. 14 Stevens at Sprague Field beginning at 7:00 pm.