By ERIC BENEVIDES

Sports writer

WARWICK --- The hot goaltender was able to hold the hot team to a draw.
For the second straight time this year, Cumberland High ruled a Division II meeting with Pilgrim High, but on Friday night, the Clippers were unable to skate away with a victory.
The Clippers outshot the Patriots by a 3-to-1 ratio, but Patriot netminder Ian Giattari bravely turned away 44 of the 45 shots he faced, including seven in a five-minute overtime session, to help his club salvage a 1-1 stalemate with the Clippers at Thayer Arena.
“We just couldn’t put the puck in the net,” added Cumberland coach Mark Andreozzi, whose crew slipped to 8-1-1 and remains in second place in the standings, one point behind Smithfield High (9-0) and one in front of North Kingstown High (7-2). “Their goalie kept them in the game and I think that was the difference, but when you get 45 shots, you should score more than one goal.”
Giattari, who leads the division in saves (233) and is among the leaders in goals-against-average and save percentage, also had a superb showing in the two teams’ last meeting on Dec. 26 at Adelard Arena, but gave up two goals in the first 5:12 of the third period and came away with a 2-0 loss.  
“I think we had 47 shots to their 20 in that game,” recalled Andreozzi. “He’s a good goalie and we have trouble scoring on him.”
The Clippers went into battle with the Patriots (2-4-1) minus the services of senior tri-captain and leading scorer Mike Darlington and had two of their key players skating with injuries, but Andreozzi refused to give any excuses for his team’s play, especially in the early going.   
“We didn’t come to play in the first two periods,” admitted Andreozzi. “We were really flat, and I don’t know if it was because of the early bus ride here to play at 6:30 or what, but we just didn’t come to play.”
The Clippers actually netted their goal 3:37 into the game on freshman Mike Kinch’s fourth goal of the season. Kinch, who hadn’t scored a goal since the second game of the season, fired in a pass from Zach Dohring in front of the net that Giattari had little chance at stopping.
That one-goal edge held strong until the waning seconds of a Pilgrim power play with 2:11 to go in the second period, as Alex Nadiger scored his team-leading sixth goal of the year by flipping in the rebound of a shot by Corey Beagan past Cumberland goalie Michaelangelo Federici.
Even though Federici didn’t face as many shots as Giattari, he still turned in his fair amount of quality opportunities, none bigger than the breakaway he  
stopped off the stick of Evan Joyal with 11:22 left in the game with a superb left pad save that kept the game deadlocked.
In overtime, the Patriots took their only shot of the session in the opening minutes, but after that, the Clippers dominated play in the other end of the ice and peppered Federici with their last seven shots. Unfortunately for the Clippers, none of them found the back of the net.
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Cumberland  1 - 0 - 0 - 0 -- 1
Pilgrim   0 - 1 - 0 - 0 -- 1
First period: C -- Mike Kinch (Zach Dohring, Matt Hayes), 3:37.
Second period: P -- Alex Nadiger (Corey Beagan), power play, 12:49.
Third period: No scoring.
Overtime: No scoring.
Shots on goals: Cumberland 45, Pilgrim 15. Goalie saves: C -- Michaelangelo Federici (14 saves); P -- Ian Giattari (44 saves).