NESCAC Player of the Week
Christian Hayes - Trinity - Sr. - F - Milton, Mass.
Hayes registered a team-high three points behind a team-high two goals with an assist in a pair of conference victories for the Bantams. Hayes scored back-to-back third-period goals to help the Bantams dig out of a 2-0 hole and even the score at 2-2 in an eventual 3-2 victory over Williams. Hayes added an assist in a 3-2 overtime win against Middlebury.
NESCAC Weekly Honor Roll
Amherst –
Alex Wisco (Peterborough, Ontario) stopped 38 of the 40 shots in a 3-1 loss to Colby last week. The senior made 29 saves over the first two periods alone. The Mammoths were 0-1-1 on the week.
Bowdoin -
Patrick Callahan (Skaneateles, N.Y.) scored two goals two minutes apart in the first period, to lead the Polar Bears to a 3-2 win over Hamilton on Saturday at Watson Arena. It capped a three-point weekend for the senior, who also assisted on a second-period goal in Bowdoin's 2-2 tie Friday against Amherst.
Colby - First-year
Jayden Grier (Needham, Mass.) tallied the game-winning goal midway through the third period Saturday in a 3-1 victory over Amherst. The win snapped the Mules’ four-game winless streak against the Mammoths. Grier has four goals on the season.
Conn. College - First-year forward
Quinn Kennedy (Silver Spring, Md.) tallied two goals and one assist last week for the Camels. In midweek non-conference action against Assumption, Kennedy tallied one goal. On Friday, in the opener of a home-and-home series against Tufts, Kennedy powered the Camels to a come-from-behind win at Tufts. With Conn trailing 3-1 late in the third period, Kennedy got the comeback started firing a shot that was tipped home with 3:08 remaining. With the game tied in overtime, Kennedy fired the puck in from a tight angle over the shoulder of the Tufts goalie to give the Camels the 4-3 win.
Hamilton –
Justin Biraben (Kingston, Ontario) scored three of the five goals the Continentals recorded last week. Biraben notched two goals, including the go-ahead goal 5:58 into the third period, in a 3-1 win at Colby. The first year added a goal and two blocked shots, and won all three faceoffs in a 3-2 setback at Bowdoin. The multi-goal game against the Mules was Biraben's first.
Middlebury – Junior
Jin Lee (Stamford, Conn.) tallied two goals and had a pair of assists in a 1-1-0 weekend for Middlebury. The Panther scored the opening pair of markers and dished out a helper on the game-winning goal in a 5-2 victory versus Wesleyan on Friday night. With just 13.5 seconds left in regulation, Lee assisted on the game-tying marker in a 3-2 overtime loss to Trinity on Saturday. The Panther leads the team in points (15) and goals (eight).
Tufts –
Tyler Sedlak (Wyckoff, N.J.) scored three goals in two games as Tufts kept pace in its hopes to secure a quarterfinal home game in the NESCAC Tournament by earning four points over the weekend. Sedlack’s first-period goal on Friday night tied the game at 1-1 against Conn. College. On Saturday, after 37 minutes of scoreless play, the junior forward scored Tufts' first two goals in an eventual 4-0 victory in the series finale against the Camels.
Williams –
Owen Stadheim (Lyme, N.H.) tallied one goal and two assists in a 1-1-0 NESCAC weekend for the Ephs. The junior finished with one goal and one assist in a 5-3 triumph over visiting Wesleyan on Saturday. Stadheim also tallied one assist in a 3-2 setback to Trinity on Friday.