The Lake Forest College men's hockey team posted a dramatic 7-6 victory in overtime at Milwaukee School of Engineering Saturday night. The Foresters are now 9-14-2 on the season and lead the two-game MCHA Harris Cup quarterfinal series 1-0-0. The Raiders fell to 13-11-2 on the year.

The home team scored first in the contest at the 8:50 mark of the opening period. The Foresters were out-shot 23-8 in the game's first 20 minutes but led 2-1 after a power play goal by senior Peter Pfeffer (Farmington Hills, Mich./Walpole Stars) at 14:35 and classmate Sean Farley's (Park Ridge, Ill./Utica College) ninth score of the year at 17:44. Fellow senior Justin Taylor (Sun Valley, Idaho/Walpole Stars) and freshman Thomas Bark (Toronto, Ontario/Streetsville Derbys) assisted on Pfeffer's goal and junior Anthony Ventura (Pleasant Prairie, Wis./Lebanon Valley College) helped set up Farley.

An unassisted shorthanded goal by Bark at the 3:26 mark of the second period gave the visitors a 3-1 advantage. The Raiders, however, scored a shorthanded goal of their own just 55 seconds later and tied the score at the 5:57 mark. Lake Forest regained the lead on Pfeffer's second power play goal of the game at 9:54. His six score overall this season was assisted by freshmen Mike Rubino (Woodbridge, Ontario/St. Michael's Buzzers) and Trent Brown (Ayr, Ontario/Elmira Sugar Kings). M.S.O.E., however, tied the game again at 12:35 and took the lead just 15 seconds later. The Raiders out-shot the Foresters 18-9 in the period.

A power play goal by the Raiders just 18 seconds into the third period gave the home team a 6-4 advantage, setting up Lake Forest's dramatic comeback. Rubino and Taylor assisted on Bark's second goal of the game and seventh this year at 8:27. The power play score trimmed the deifict to one. Senior Adam Love (Durham, Ontario/Elmira Sugar Kings) then tied the contest with 3:02 remaining in regulation. Pfeffer assisted on Love's ninth goal of the year. The Foresters finished the period with a dozen shots on goal, one more than the Raiders.

The game ended three minutes and 20 seconds into the overtime period when sophomore Chad Thompson (Rockwood, Ontario/Listowel Cyclones) lit the lamp for the first time as a Forester.

Lake Forest freshman goaltender Austin Erney (New Ringgold, Pa./Vermont Academy) entered the game early in the third period and stopped all 12 shots on goal he faced, including a penalty shot with 4:38 to play in regulation and his team trailing by one. It was his first collegiate victory.

The teams will face off again in game two of the series at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon. A tie or a Lake Forest victory would put the Foresters in next weekend's (March 5-6) Harris Cup Four at Adrian College. The Raiders need a victory at 4:00 and another win in the resulting 20-minute mini-game to advance.