The Saint Michael’s men’s hockey team’s season-opening home-and-home weekend series with Potsdam will not be played as scheduled, per the established institutional and conference COVID-19 health protocols. The teams plan to reschedule the games later in the season.
The Northeast-10 Conference voted unanimously on Thursday, July 16, to suspend all NE10-sponsored competition and championships through Dec. 31, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference will work to provide a regular-season schedule and/or conference championships for its winter sport student-athletes during the spring 2021 semester, “with the intention of aligning with appropriate … Read more
For the second-consecutive season, Franklin Pierce’s Alex Lester has been voted the Northeast-10 Player of the Year, becoming just the fourth player to earn multiple Player of the Year honors since the NE-10 began in 1999-2000 (photo: Franklin Pierce Athletics).
Legendary St. Michael’s forward John Gurskis will have his No. 9 raised to the rafters at Cairns Arena in South Burlington, Vt., on Dec. 7, when the Purple Knights officially retire a uniform number for the first time in program history.
The sole D-II conference in college hockey is now a seven-team league with Post University officially joining the NE-10 hockey conference. That addition sets up an 18-game conference schedule with each team playing league opponents three times. The addition of Post does not change the playoff structure where only the top four teams will qualify … Read more
Post will become an associate member of the Northeast-10 conference beginning with the upcoming 2019-20 season.
The Northeast 10 announced on Thursday that the coach of the year award will now be named after the late Lance Brady, the former head coach at Assumption.
Saint Michael’s announced Tuesday its 2019 athletic hall of fame class, with six new members set to be enshrined at the 31st Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet on Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Roy Room in the College’s Dion Family Student Center (photo: Saint Michael’s Athletics).
Manhattanville, University of New England, and Southern New Hampshire all scored upset wins in their conference tournaments, Geneseo beat Oswego in a battle worth of two top-five teams, and Trinity edged Amherst for the NESCAC crown.
Teams are playing for a berth in the NCAA tournament, and the marquee matchups include No. 5 Oswego versus No. 2 Geneseo and No. 6 Hobart versus No. 4 Norwich. Tim Costello picks the weekend’s games.
St. Anselm needed triple OT to defeat Assumption, Hamilton defeated Williams in OT, and Utica needed a mini-game to get past Nazareth. Elsewhere, Salve Regina edged Endicott and Hobart upset top-seed Massachusetts-Boston.
In what should be an outstanding weekend of hockey in the East, Tim Costello sees most of the favorites prevailing.
Salve Regina, Plymouth State, Saint Anselm, Trinity, and Utica all clinched their league crowns. In the first round of the NEHC playoffs, the top four seeds advanced to the semifinals.
Teams either start the playoffs this weekend, or are gearing up for them. No. 11 Trinity faces No. 12 Wesleyan, while No. 13 University of New England hosts red-hot Salve Regina. Tim Costello picks the weekend’s games.
Massachusetts-Boston eked out the NEHC crown with a convincing win over Babson Saturday, while other races tightened. The matchup between No. 2 Geneseo and No. 4 Oswego fittingly ended in a tie.
THE big game of the weekend happens out East, as No. 2 Geneseo faces No. 4 Oswego. It’s not the only big battle in the East. Babson looks to overcome No. 7 Massachusetts-Boston on the final weekend of NEHC play.
Buffalo State upset Oswego, Wesleyan and Trinity scored big wins, and Salve Regina took control of the CCC. Tim Costello recaps the weekend action.
Ranked teams battle it out in the East, with No. 13 Trinity facing No. 8 Williams and No. 10 Endicott travelling to No. 12 University of New England. Tim Costello picks those and more.
Geneseo swept Potsdam and Plattsburgh, Norwich earned big wins over Middlebury and Castleton, and Western New England upset Salve Regina.
No. 2 Geneseo hosts rival Plattsburgh, Framingham State faces Plymouth State, and Hobart looks to stay hot when facing New England College. Tim Costello picks the weekend’s slate of games.