Easy as 1-2-3; Yale Topples Dartmouth

Yale put up a six-spot to defeat Dartmouth, and scored 13 goals on the weekend, completing a sweep and keeping hope alive for a home-ice spot in the ECAC tournament. The Big Green’s five-game unbeaten streak came to an end.

Grover Nets Winner As Manhattanville Tops Southern Maine

Melanie Grover’s goal midway through the second period proved to be the game-winner as Manhattanville beat Southern Maine 2-1 in the ECAC Division III quarterfinals Saturday. Lindsey Paulsrud opened the scoring for the Valiants with a goal nearly six minutes into the game. Southern Maine’s Stacy Rudnicki tied the contest at 1-1 5:45 into the … Read more

Norwich Outguns Mass. College

Top-seeded Norwich outshot Massachusetts College 53-17 Saturday night and beat the Mohawks 3-0 in the ECAC East quarterfinals. Peter Catalano, Aaron Lee and Chris Petracco scored goals for the Cadets. Massachusetts College stayed close despite the wide disparity in shots. The Mohawks trailed only 2-0 until Petracco scored an empty-net goal in the game’s last … Read more

Amherst Advances; Rieser Shuts Out Williams

Nick Rieser turned away all 21 Williams shots as second-seeded Amherst moved into the NESCAC semifinals with a 3-0 victory Saturday afternoon. Mike Kreger and Darren Reaume scored goals in the first period for Amherst, which outshot Williams 35-21. Any hopes Williams, the seventh seed, had of a late-game comeback disappeared when Chris Orszulak scored … Read more

Carosi Gives Bowdoin OT Win

Mike Carosi scored the game-winning goal with 2:34 left in overtime as fifth-seeded Bowdoin defeated No. 4 Trinity, 4-3, in the NESCAC first round Saturday. Chris Pelletier scored a shorthanded goal for Bowdoin with just over three minutes left in the third period to send the game into overtime. It was his second goal of … Read more

Union Responds With Big Win over Harvard

Friday’s 2-2 tie with last-place Brown could have been a major setback for Union. Instead, the Dutchmen put the memory of that game, in which the Bears scored with one-tenth of a second left in regulation, out of their minds Saturday against Harvard. The result was an impressive win that moved the Dutchmen closer to … Read more

Murphy, Colgate Top Vermont in Triple OT

Colgate needed more than 106 minutes to beat Vermont 2-1 Saturday night in an ECAC Division III quarterfinal game. Each team scored a goal early in the second period, then went scorless for the next 82:48. That’s until Heather Murphy took a pass form Kelly Roos and beat Vernont goalie Tiffany Hayes for the game-winner … Read more

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Saints Continue to Lead ECAC

Blair Clarance scored his second game-winning goal in as many nights and goaltender Sean Coakley continued his mastery of Colgate with a 31-save night as St. Lawrence turned back the Red Raiders, 3-1. The Saints improved to 16-10-4 (13-4-3 ECAC) with the victory. St. Lawrence maintains a one-point point lead on Clarkson for first place … Read more

Bernard Scores in Mini-Game OT for River Falls

Jeff Bernard scored 2:04 into overtime of the mini-game to lift River Falls into the NCHA championship series next weekend. St. Norbert beat the Falcons 5-2 in the regular game Saturday, tying the series at one game each. That sent the teams to the 15-minute mini-game. Neither team scored, so they went to overtime. Finally, … Read more

NEC Moves On

New England College advanced to the semifinals of the ECAC East tournament with a 5-3 victory over UMass-Boston on Saturday night. Rob O’Leary scored twice for the Pilgrims, including the game-winning goal eight minutes into the third period. That gave New England a 4-1 lead. New England outshot the Beacons 49-22.

Surprise Starter Goehring Shines for North Dakota

After Friday night’s 2-2 tie with Michigan Tech, North Dakota coach Dean Blais said that he would likely start Andy Kollar in goal in Saturday’s rematch. He started Karl Goehring again. It paid off. Goehring was outstanding, stopping 41 shots as the No. 3 Fighting Sioux earned at least a share of the WCHA regular-season … Read more

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Weston Scores Winner for Babson

Babson’s Bobby Weston scored the game-winning goal with two-and-a-half minutes left in the third period as the Beavers beat Skidmore 3-2 in the ECAC East quarterfinals. That goal lifted Babson into a 3-1 lead. That let the Beavers survive Joe Ziolkowski’s second goal for the Thorobreds at the 19:43 mark. John Lobisser and Eric Bookbinder … Read more

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Michigan Breaks Out of Slump

No controversy this time. Thursday, the Lake Superior State Lakers defeated the Michigan Wolverines 2-1 on a controversial goal by Tyson Turgeon. Turgeon hit the right post of the net, and it looked as if it was no goal. But after discussing it with the goal judge (who did not turn the red light on), … Read more

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St. Michael’s Advances To D-II Semis With 5-2 Win

St. Michael’s beat Assumption 5-2 Saturday to win the play-in game in the ECAC Division II tournament. St. Michael’s advances to the semifinals Wednesday. The Purple Knights play at top-seeded St. Anselm. Brent Hill and Jeremy Coccaro scored goals 25 seconds apart late in the second period as St. Michael’s broke a 2-2 tie. Justin … Read more

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Braves Down Huskies

Chris Cerrella netted one goal and three assists to lead Quinnipiac to a 4-2 victory over Connecticut. The loss drops UConn to 11-17-4 overall (11-10-3 MAAC), while Quinnipiac improves to 18-10-4 (15-7-2). The Braves’ Ryan Olson opened the scoring at the 13:37 mark of the first period on a power-play tally. Jed Holtzman responded less … Read more

Pioneers Complete Sweep over UAA

Matt Weber’s hat trick propelled Denver, and kept them close with Wisconsin in the race for the final home-ice spot in the WCHA. Alaska-Anchorage slipped to 1-19-3 in its last 23 games.

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Nichols Coach Resigns

John Snyder resigned as head coach at Nichols, after the Bison ended their season with a 7-5 loss against Worcester State. Assistant coach Mark Jago has been named the program’s interim head coach.