ERIE, Pa. – The Mercyhurst men's ice hockey team came up short during a back-and-forth contest against the Rochester Institute of Technology, 4-3, in an Atlantic Hockey matchup on Wednesday at the Mercyhurst Ice Center.
 
Sophomore Les Lancaster and juniors Michael Verboom and Nathan Ferriero scored goals while senior Kyle Dutra, sophomore Jeremy Wu and redshirt-junior Jack Riley had assists for the Lakers (4-8-0, 4-5-0).
 
Myles Powell scored two goals for RIT (6-7-1, 6-5-0) while Adam Brubacher and Erik Brown picked up the other two goals.
 
Brown scored his goal with just 50 seconds remaining in the third period – shortly after Ferriero's game-tying goal with 2:29 left. The Brown goal stood as the game-winner.
 
RIT opened the scoring with the first of Powell's pair of goals at 15:05 of the first period.
 
Lancaster scored the Lakers' first goal, tying the game late in the first period at 1-1. Dutra blocked an RIT shot, broke away and found a trailing Lancaster, who then put the puck in the back of the net.
 
Brubacher put the Tigers back on top in the second before Verboom tied the game back up at 2-2, with his second goal of the year.
 
Wu and Riley tallied assists on the Verboom goal. Riley slapped the puck around the boards to Wu who took a shot from the right point and Verboom deflected it past RIT goaltender Mike Rotolo.
 
Powell scored his second goal of the game ten seconds into the third period to make it 3-2 RIT.
 
That 3-2 score remained until Ferriero's tying goal and then Brown's GWG.
 
Mercyhurst junior goaltender Brandon Wildung stopped 28 out of 32 shots on net while RIT's Rotolo saved 30 out of 33 shots faced.
 
The Lakers went 0-for-6 on the power play while the Tigers went 2-for-5.
 
The Lakers are back in action Friday at Canisius College. Puck-drop is at 7:05 p.m.