Entering this year, Carleton hadn't won a CUFLA game since 2017 and they hadn't won more than one game in a season since 2015. So the Ravens could be forgiven if they were already satisfied with having won twice in the month of September alone.
Surely they couldn't have been expecting to open October with a win against long-time CUFLA powerhouse McGill when the Redbirds came to visit Raven's Road Field on Sunday of Week 4 (October 2), right? After all, it had been even longer since Carleton beat McGill. For that, you'd have to back to October 16, 2010. Since then, McGill has won most of the games between the two schools by double digits.
So when McGill went ahead 6-3 on Luke Dawick's goal to open the third quarter Sunday, it appeared perhaps Carleton's goal for the day would be to stay close, keep the lead deficit under 10, and live to fight another day.
Not these Ravens!
Two members of Carleton's three-headed scoring beast Cameron York sandwiched a pair of goals around a matching pair from Jacob Garcia—and the teammates added three assists between them on those goals—to leapfrog the Ravens into a 7-6 lead through 45 minutes.
The defence and goalie Thomas Kiazyk stepped up from there, keeping McGill off the scoreboard for a stretch of over 25 minutes. During that Redbirds' drought, Sam Trumble (Carleton's other scorer with 14+ points on the season, besides York and Garcia), added a goal that would stand up as the winner. McGill managed just one more marker, from Dylan James with less than two minutes to play, and the Ravens came away with an 8-7 win that improved their record to 3-3 on the season and confirmed that Carleton is serious about moving on up in the East Division.
The other huge element to the Ravens' success in the game was discipline; they did not take a single penalty while the Redbirds totalled nine minutes worth as they fell to 4-2, one game back of Bishop's and Trent in the battle for top spot in the division.
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