Box Score Third-year forward Matthew Campagna tallied four assists in leading the University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's hockey team to a 4-3 overtime victory over the Ryerson Rams on Saturday night (Jan. 27) at Varsity Arena.
 
With the win, Toronto's fifth in their past seven games, the Blues improve to 9-14-1 and even the season series with Ryerson at 2-2. The Rams drop to 14-7-3 with four games remaining in the regular season.
 
Toronto sealed the victory just 20 seconds into overtime as Campagna went end to end, skated the puck into the crease but Rams netminder Taylor Dupuis poke checked it right to second-year defenceman Willy Paul, who buried it to seal the win.

WATCH Matt Campagna goes end-to-end and Willy Paul finishes it off as MHKY defeats Ryerson 4-3 in OT! #WeAreTO @OUAsport @USPORTSca @UofT pic.twitter.com/wwMgBSVIyC

— U of T Varsity Blues (@Varsity_Blues) January 28, 2018

 
The Blues opened the scoring on their first powerplay opportunity of the game as Aidan Wallace tipped in a Matt Campagna point shot 8:56 into the first frame.
 
The Rams evened the score though as Lucas Froese finished off a cross-crease pass from Steven Harland seven minutes later.
 
The game was tied at 1-1 at the first intermission.
 
Ryerson scored two goals 48 seconds apart, both off of turnovers in the Toronto zone, as Cavin Leth and Aaron Armstrong put the visitors up 3-1.
 
U of T would cut the deficit before the period ended. Third-year defenceman Matt Heffernan buried a long rebound off of a Casey Knight shot for his first goal of the season.
 
The Rams were up 3-2 heading into the final frame.
 
Toronto evened the score midway through the third period as second-year defenceman Justin Brand finished off a nice tic-tac-toe passing play with Campagna and Max Lindsay.
 
Rookie netminder Frederic Foulem made 13 saves before leaving the game due to injury. Veteran Andrew Hunt came in to finish the game and ended the night with 12 saves in the win.
 
The Varsity Blues are back in action next Friday, February 2 as they head to Waterloo to take on the Laurier Golden Hawks. The puck drops at 7:07 p.m.  

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