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OTTAWA -- Nicolas Larocque-Marcoux, a freshman from Gatineau, Que., scored the only goal of a post-overtime shootout as Ottawa came-from-behind to edge visiting McGill 4-3 in OUA men's university hockey, Sunday.

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The Redmen had taken a 3-1 lead on a first-period goal by Marc-Olivier Vachon of Thetford Mines, Que., combined with a pair of power-play goals in second-period by rookie Jonathan Brunelle of Boisbriand, Que., and Justin Ducharme of Quebec City.

The Gee-Gees, who have won both meetings with McGill and improved their lifetime record against the Redmen to 79-95-10 overall, rallied with a pair of power-play goals when Mathieu Ouellette of Clarence Creek, Ont., struck at 10:12 of the middle stanza and Dominic Jalbert of Hull, Que., tied the score at 3-3 while McGill was two men short at 1:57 of the final frame. Defenceman Mathieu Leduc of Valleyfield, Que., tallied the other Gee-Gees goal, which knotted the score at 1-1 at 7:22 of the first period.

Ottawa had a 36-26 edge in shots as rookie netminder Francois Lacerte of Trois-Rivieres, Que., was credited with 22 saves in his first appearance with the Gee-Gees after joining them at the holiday break. Redmen 'keeper Andrew Flemming, a native of Quispamsis, N.B., made 32 saves in a losing cause and his record evened out at 5-5-0.

"Our power-play was effective today, which is a positive to draw from, but our penalty-kill has got to be better," said Redmen bench boss Kelly Nobes, whose troops went 2-for-5 with the man-advantage but allowed Ottawa to score twice on six PP opportunities. "We had some other good scoring chances to win, with Ryan McKiernan hitting a goal post and Benoit Levesque getting chance all alone in front, off a great forecheck but at the end of the day, we had too many lost battles for the puck."

McGill, which dropped to 10-6-1, now trails the fourth-place Gee-Gees (9-5-4) by one point in the OUA East with a game in hand. The Redmen will host Concordia (5-10-2) on Jan. 9, while Ottawa travels to division-leading UQTR (12-3-1) on Jan. 11.

REDMEN RAP: The is some help on the horizon for the injury-riddled Redmen, who had five regulars out for the second straight contest... Rookie forward Mathieu Pompei, who ranks second on the team in goals and third in points with a 7-6-13 record in 13 games, is expected back next week from a leg injury... Other probable returnees in the not-too-distant future are defencemen Guillaume Monast (upper body) and Jean-Philippe Mathieu, who has missed 17 league games with a broken leg.


SCORING SUMMARY
McGill 3 at Ottawa 4 (OTS)
Sunday, January 6, 2013 - uOttawa Sports Complex Arena

GOALS BY PERIOD
McGill  2-1-0-0-0 - 3
Ottawa 1-1-1-0-1 - 4

1st Period-
1, McGill, Marc-Olivier Vachon 6 (Ducharme, Bourgeois), 5:40.
2, Ottawa, Mathieu Leduc 1 (Larocque-Marcoux, Blain), 7:22.
3, McGill, Jonathan Brunelle 5 (Delisle-Houde, Genest), 17:16 (PP).

Penalties-Blain Ott (hooking), 15:33; Genest Mcg (interference), 19:38.

2nd Period-
4, McGill, Justin Ducharme 4 (Biniek, Genest), 8:06 (PP).
5, Ottawa, Mathieu Ouellette 6 (Burns, Tanguay-Theriault), 10:12 (PP).

Penalties-Leduc Ott (holding), 5:17; Blain Ott (hooking), 6:22; Laporte Mcg (hooking), 9:32; Burns Ott (hooking), 15:14; Brunelle Mcg (slashing), 16:30; Barnard Mcg (holding), 19:58.

3rd Period-
6, Ottawa, Jalbert 4 (Blain), 1:57 (2-man PP).

Penalties-Dupont Mcg (cross checking), 1:39; Leduc Ott (tripping), 10:39; Barnard Mcg (tripping), 11:38.

OVERTIME (5 mins.; 4-on-4):
(no scoring)

Penalties-
(None)

SHOOTOUT  (Goal / No Goal):
McGill 0 (Justin Ducharme NG, Keven Dupont NG, Max Le Sieur NG),
Ottawa 1 (Nicolas Larocque-Marcoux G, Trevor Layton NG, Mathieu Ouellette NG).

Shots on Goal-
McGill 9-7-9-1-0 -- 26.
Ottawa 8-11-12-4 -1 -- 36.

Power Play Opportunities-
McGill 2 / 5;
Ottawa 2 / 6.

Goalies-
McGill, Andrew Flemming (L, 5-5-0; 35 shots-32 saves; 65:00).
Ottawa, Francois Lacerte (W, 1-0-0; 26 shots-23 saves; 64:57).

Attendance-145

Start: 2:04 PM

End: 4:35 PM

Length: 2:31

Referee-Scott Loney.

Linesmen-Brandon Yuck, Ryan Card.

THREE STARS:
1. OTT - 89 Nicolas Larocque-Marcoux
2. OTT - 9 Mathieu Ouellette
3. MCG - 2 Hubert Genest

SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
McGill Sports Info Office
514-398-7012