Courtesy Trinity Sports Information

Box Score

WEST HARTFORD, Conn.- Junior forward Mike Carosi (Warwick, R.I.) scored two goals, including the game-winner with 2:34 remaining in overtime, and an assist to lead the visiting Bowdoin College Polar Bears to a 4-3 win over the Trinity College Bantams in the quarterfinal round of the NESCAC Men's Ice Hockey Championship this evening at Kingswood-Oxford rink.

Trinity, seeded No. 4 in the tourney, finishes season with a 15-6-3 record, while No. 5-seeded Bowdoin, which improves to 14-9-1, advances to the semifinals next Friday at top-seeded Middlebury College. The winner of the NESCAC Championship earns an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament.

Trinity took a 2-0 lead in the first period on a pair of goals by freshman forward Steven LaBrie (Springfield, Mass.), but Bowdoin got on the board with 1:31 left to play in the first period on a goal by freshman forward Chris Pelletier (Nashua, N.H.).

The Polar Bears tied the score at 2-2 just :35 into the second frame when Carosi netted a power play goal on assists by Pelletier and sophomore defenseman Jared Porter (Duxbury, Mass.).

The game remained scoreless until the 7:32 mark of the third period until Trinity sophomore forward Mark Colwell (Canton, Mass.) found the net on assists by freshman forward Tom Pierandri (Ridgefield, Conn.) and junior defenseman Matt Brown (Reading, Mass.).

Pelletier knotted the game at 3-3 with his second goal of the day with 2:34 to go in regulation to send the game into an extra 20-minute period. The teams played a scoreless overtime until Pelletier fed Carosi for the deciding goal.

Trinity junior Geoff Faulkner (Westerville, Ohio) totaled 31 saves, including 11 in overtime, while senior netminder Colin Robinson (Mason, N.H.) stopped 37 shots for the Polar Bears. Pierandri notched a pair of assists for Trinity.