Men's Ice Hockey

NESCAC Men's Ice Hockey Weekly Release - Dec. 9, 2024

NESCAC Player of the Week
Jack Barbro – Bowdoin – So. – D – Loudonville, N.Y.
Barbro had a four-point weekend as the Polar Bears earned a sweep of Conn. College and Tufts at Watson Arena. On Friday night, Barbo sparked a five-goal outburst with a goal and an assist in a 5-1 win over the Camels. On Saturday, the sophomore scored the game-tying goal in the second period against Tufts and assisted a power-play score in the third, keying a three-goal Polar Bear rally in a 4-3 comeback victory. 
 
NESCAC Weekly Honor Roll
Amherst – Junior Josh Burke (Tampa, Fla.) had three points in a 2-0-0 week for the Mammoths. He had all three points in a 4-3 overtime win against Williams, assisting on the game-tying goal with 46.1 seconds left in regulation and scoring the game-winning goal, after skating the entire length of the ice, with 2.8 seconds remaining in overtime to lift Amherst to victory. 

Colby – Jayden Grier (Needham, Mass.) tallied his first career hat trick Friday night to push the Mules past Tufts. 6-4. The sophomore’s first score knotted the game at 2-2 at the close of the opening period, and his pair of goals in the third period pushed Colby in front for good.  Grier's six goals this season tie him with teammate Reese Farrell (Auburn, Maine) for the NESCAC lead. 
 
Conn. College - Sophomore forward Quinn Kennedy (Silver Spring, Md.) paced Conn. College with two goals last weekend. On Friday night, Kennedy tallied the lone marker as the Camels came up short at Bowdoin. On Saturday, Kennedy tallied his second goal in as many days, to give Conn. a 3-0 lead in an eventual 6-3 win over Colby.
 
Hamilton – Senior Charlie Archer (Belleville, Ontario) posted a .976 save percentage in a 2-0 weekend for the Continentals. Archer started the NESCAC home weekend by making 17 saves in a 5-1 win against Williams. The senior stopped all 24 shots on goal in a 6-0 victory against Middlebury. It was Hamilton's first shutout since Dec. 30, 2023. Archer has five career shutouts.
 
Middlebury – Sophomore Andrew Heinze (North Andover, Mass.)  tallied 40 total saves in action against Amherst and Hamilton.
 
Trinity – Spencer Korona (Enfield, Conn.) racked up five points for Trinity in a pair of non-conference victories over New England College, 6-2, and Albertus Magnus, 4-0. Korona factored into four of the six Bantam goals against NEC, scoring two goals, including the game-winning goal, and delivering a pair of assists. Korona added an assist for Trinity during the shutout of the Falcons.
 
Tufts – On a weekend road trip to Maine for conference games against Colby and Bowdoin, Tufts had seven different scorers tally goals including junior Cole Dubicki (Seattle, Wash.) who finished the weekend with a goal and two assists. Senior Harrison Bazianos (Glenview, Ill.) recorded three assists in the two games.

Williams – Junior Ziv Deener-Chodirker (Newton, Mass.) scored a goal at Hamilton on Friday evening and followed up with an assist at Amherst on Saturday.