The NESCAC announced its men’s hockey awards for the 2023-24 season. Trinity netminder Devon Bobak was selected as the NESCAC player of the year by the conference coaches. Bobak is the fifth Bantam to garner the honor and third in four seasons. Bobak anchors a defensive unit that has allowed the fewest goals this season … Read more
Wesleyan senior Jake Lachance is the NESCAC men’s hockey player of the year as voted by the league’s coaches. Lachance is the first defenseman since 2016 to earn the honor and the third Cardinal (Tim Sestak, 2019; Keith Buehler, 2013). Lachance helped the Cardinals earn the top seed in the NESCAC championship and post 15 … Read more
Ben Murphy has returned to the Bentley coaching staff as associate head coach, while Gudge Gentzler has been hired for the new director of hockey operations position. Murphy was previously an assistant coach at Bentley from the 2009 to 2019. He was an assistant coach at St. Lawrence for the last three seasons. Murphy played … Read more
Trinity senior Lucas Michaud is the 2022 NESCAC Player of the Year as voted by the conference coaches. He is the fourth Bantam since 2014 to earn the honor. The player of the year honor bookends his career after being named NESCAC Rookie of the Year in 2019. Michaud helped the Bantams earn the No. … Read more
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.
Geneseo swept Potsdam and Plattsburgh, Norwich earned big wins over Middlebury and Castleton, and Western New England upset Salve Regina.
Norwich knocked off Massachusetts-Boston, Geneseo scored a big win over Fredonia, and Canton announced its intention to join the SUNYAC.
Ben Sands, a 1954 Tufts graduate and the recipient of the athletic department’s first Brown and Blue Award last April, passed away following a brief illness on Jan. 11.
There are five holiday tournaments this weekend, with several ranked teams in action. Tim Costello picks the first-round games in each.
Many of the ranked teams in the East, including No. 4 UMass-Boston, No. 5 Salve Regina, No. 12 Hobart, No. 13 Plymouth State, and No. 14 Fredonia all suffered losses, while No. 2 Geneseo and No. 8 Oswego posted solid wins.
Chris Schultz of Geneseo earned his 200th career win, No. 10 Trinity suffered its first loss of the season, and No. 13 Norwich held on for a win in a tight conference game.
Thanksgiving tournaments are a holiday tradition. Tim Costello picks those tournaments and more, including an upset by Norwich of No. 2 Adrian.
Trinity, Wesleyan, and Williams opened NESCAC play with weekend sweeps, while Fredonia stunned previously unbeaten Oswego. Tim Costello wraps the weekend.
Trinity fell short last year to Colby in the NESCAC tournament, showing the volatility in the conference. The Bantams are the early favorite, but look to Williams and Connecticut College to challenge. Tim Costello previews the NESCAC.
What an entrance the NESCAC teams make to the season. As always, the late arrivals but with the most dramatic entrances and battles for playoff positioning amongst any of the other conferences in the D-III ranks. This year will likely be no exception according to last year’s championship coach from Williams, Bill Kangas. “We start … Read more
Becker College men’s coach and assistant athletic director Steve Hoar has passed away, the school announced Tuesday. No cause of death or age was disclosed in the Becker announcement. Hoar was the head coach of the Hawks since 2007, earning a record of 84-143-15. He earned the ECAC Northeast Coach of the Year award following … Read more
What a spring and offseason for the hockey teams of NESCAC. First, Trinity shakes off a quarterfinal loss in the conference tournament to go on a four-game run as an at-large entrant in the NCAA tournament and wins its first-ever national title. Secondly, Middlebury and D-III coaching legend Bill Beaney announces his retirement from coaching … Read more
Pat Norton, who has nearly 20 years of coaching experience at the collegiate and prep school levels, has been hired as head coach at Tufts. Norton replaces Brian Murphy, who will not return after 17 seasons behind the Jumbos bench. “We are very excited that Pat will be joining the Jumbo family and leading our … Read more