"Geneseo has some guys who can put the puck in the net and they came in with a good game plan," Emery said. "They did a good job breaking the puck out of their zone. We also had a hard time getting our second player involved in our forecheck. I don't know if that was more because of them or us."

"We didn't play well at all in the first two periods and didn't get the puck in deep. We weren't moving our feet, made some mistakes and took some dumb penalties."

"I told the guys earlier today that we didn't want to beat ourselves. And, that's what we were doing in the first two periods. We're a skating team and we began to play the way we can in the third."

The Cardinals, out-shot by a 17-14 margin over the first two stanzas, held a 20-5 advantage in the third.

Hince finished with 21 saves on 25 shots and Jokic 33 stops on 38 shots.

The Cardinals close out the first semester with two non-conference road games this coming weekend -- at Middlebury College on Friday and then at Williams College on Saturday.

Elsewhere around the SUNYAC on Saturday, Plattsburgh State got some good news when second-place Oswego and Fredonia skated to a 3-all overtime tie. In other games, Cortland pulled out a 5-3 win over Buffalo State and Brockport was a 3-1 winner at Potsdam.

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Plattsburgh 5, Geneseo 4, OT

Score by periods:

Geneseo State 1 3 0 0 -- 4

Plattsburgh State 1 1 2 1 -- 5

First period- 1, PSU, Satim (Willock), 4:10. 2, Gen, Brown (MacPhee), 10:13. Penalties- Rolls, PSU (holding the stick), 9:30. Galan, PSU (hooking), 9:30. VanDermale, PSU (hitting from behind), 12:47. Rygiel, Gen (tripping), 15:03.

Second period- 3, PSU, Rolls ppg (Hill, Wilson), 6:56. 4, Gen, Cyr ppg (C. Smith, Cassan), 15:38. 5, Gen, Cyr ppg (C. Smith, Cassan), 17:22. 6, Gen, Galan (C. Smith), 18:58. Penalties- Panetta, Gen (interference), 5:36. Burke, PSU (boarding), 5:36. C. Smith, Gen (holding), 6:06. C. Smith, Gen (holding), 9:50. Corry, PSU (interference), 14:32. Burke, PSU (holding), 17:09.

Third period- 7, PSU, Farrow (Wilson, Hill), 13:16. 8, PSU, Hill (Wilson), 17:13. Penalties- Cyr, Gen (interference), 7:05. Charboneau, Gen (hitting from behind), 8:38. Breslin, PSU (roughing), 16:34. Sankey, Gen (roughing), 16:34.