'KEENE, N.H. 5/5/04 - Joe Branciforte (Cromwell, Conn.) had five goals to lead fourth seed Keene State to a 10-4 victory over fifth seed Roger Williams University in a ECAC Division III New England Tournament quarterfinal game played Wednesday night at Owl Athletic Complex.

Keene State (11-6) advances to the semifinals where they will play top seed Western New England College on Saturday in Springfield, Mass. WNEC defeated eighth seed UMass-Dartmouth (15-3) in its first round game.

Tied 1-1 after the first quarter, KSC scored the first three goals of the second quarter to take a 4-1 lead.  RWU scored with just 14 second to play in the quarter and added an early third quarter goal by Jason Colangelo (Norwalk, Conn.) to cut the deficit to 5-4.

Greg Richard (Nashua, N.H.) scored his second goal of the game a minute later and Greg Gonzalez (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) added one more goal to push the Owls' lead to 7-4 after three quarters.

Braniciforte, the Little East Offensive Player of the Year, netted two more goals and Artie Drews (Concord, N.H.) scored to wrap up the scoring by KSC.  Eric Momnie (South Windsor, Conn.) also scored for the Owls.  Branciforte has scored 38 goals this season.

Adam Vickers (Hingham, Mass.) had two goals and Doug D'Auria (Wilton, Conn.) also tallied for Roger Williams. Keene State outshot the Hawks 53-20.

Eric Delisle (Amherst, N.H.) had nine saves for KSC while Jamie McCoy (Nantucket, Mass.) stopped 21 shots for RWU, which concludes its season with a 10-7 record. KSC has lost in the ECAC semifinals the past two years.

It was the first meeting between the two teams.