Junior defenseman Matt Raley scored the game winning goal with just 1:07 to go in regulation time, lifting St. Lawrence University to a come-from-behind 4-3 win over Colgate University Saturday night and into the ECAC semifinals as the Saints completed a two-game sweep of the fourth-seeded Raiders in a best-of-three quarterfinal series.St. Lawrence, 19-14-7, won a best of three series at Colgate for the first time in four tries and will meet an opponent to be determined Friday in Albany. The Saints, who won the final ECAC tournament held at Boston Garden and the last one to be contested in Lake Placid, will have a chance to do the same in Albany as they advance for the second straight year. The tournament will leave Albany for Atlantic City after this season.

Raley gave the Saints the lead for the first time in the game as his second goal of the season turned out to be the game winner. Kyle Flanagan took a pass from Rick Carden and set up the game winner as he waited at the left faceoff circle while the Saints were changing lines. Flanagan snapped a pass across to Raley as he entered the zone and Raley took a hard shot which hit the edge of Colgate goalie Alex Evin's pads and settled into the net off the inside of the post.

Goals came from unexpected sources in the third to tie it up as Colgate had a 2-1 lead after two periods.

 "It was great to see some of the players who have been working hard, but not getting a lot of notoriety come through with some goals," said Saint coach Joe Marsh. "Colgate came out hard, just as we expected, in the first period, and I thought we got better as the game went along. "

Junior Nick Pitsikoulis tied the game 1:21 into the third period with his fourth of the season as Aaron Bogosian took the puck from Flanagan behind the net and centered the puck to Pitsikoulis who was skating down the slot. Pitsikoulis snapped a wrist shot which beat Evin cleanly to make it a 2-2 game.

Colgate regained the lead on its third power play goal of the game at 10:56 as Francois Brisebois tipped a shot from the point past Saint goalie Kain Tisi, but Jacob Drewiske tied the game with his sixth of the season for the Saints at 14:23 as he took a pass from Mark Armstrong after Jake Klancher had worked the puck free along the  boards and Drewiske gunned his sixth of the season into the net to make it a 3-3 game.

"We have been getting very good efforts consistently out of our third and fourth lines and it was great to see them put a couple away tonight...and the play by Flanagan and Raley to win it was an outstanding one. It is really hard to end someone's season in their own building, and I think the kind of battles we have been in thus far in the playoffs will help us in Albany. I am really glad for the whole team, but particularly this group of seniors, that they will have a chance to play in Albany...we're a long way from where people thought we would be before the season began."

The Saints, who have now played seven consecutive one-goal games including five straight in the playoffs won for the fourth time in those five playoff games as they controlled the action in the final 1:04 after Colgate had pulled Evin for an extra attacker.

Tisi, who was outstanding for the third straight game in goal and made 33 saves for his third straight playoff win, needed only one stick save from long range in the final minute to keep the Saints on top.

The Colgate power play spotted the Raiders a 2-0 lead in the game as Colgate dominated the first period, but scored just once when Jeremy Price netted his fifth of the season on a power play through traffic from the point at 16:08. It went to 2-0 as Price scored his second of the night, again on a power play shot, at 2:30 of the second, but the Saints got a huge goal when Mike McKenzie scored his second of the weekend and fourth of the season against the Raiders on a Saint power play from George Hughes and Pete Child at 10:20 of the second.