MIDDLEBURY, VT (December 2, 2023) – The Tufts University men's hockey team took a 4-1 victory at Middlebury College this afternoon that gave the Jumbos two wins and six points in NESCAC play this weekend. Tufts also had a 7-4 victory at Williams College last night.
Junior
Tyler Sedlak helped set up a pair of goals today, sophomore Cle Dubicki posted a goal and an assist and senior goalie
Peyton Durand stopped 23 shots as the Jumbos improved to 2-4-1 overall and 2-2 in the league.
Middlebury split its weekend including last night's 3-2 win over Connecticut College and is now 1-3-2 overall and 1-2-1 in NESCAC.
Tufts struck on the power-play early today to take a 1-0 lead. Sedlak and Dubicki played catch in the left corner before Dubicki dished to junior
Harrison Bazianos who closed in from the left circle and put a shot into the far side of the net at 3:10 of the opening period.
Middlebury was able to tie the game five minutes later when junior Matt Myers sprung freshman Dante Palumbo at the redline. He went in one-on-one against a Tufts defenseman, lost the puck, but picked it back up after it went through the defender and scored at 8:24 tying the score 1-1.
Tufts played a strong second period and opened a 2-1 lead. Four minutes into the frame, Dubicki won a face-off and sophomore
Liam O'Hare tapped the puck back to classmate Phillippe Lamarrre at the right point. His shot was redirected in the slot by sophomore
John Mulvihill for a Tufts goal and 2-1 lead. The Jumbos out-shot the Panthers 14-7 in the second.
The visitors held their one-goal lead well into the third period as Durand would make nine third-period saves. Tufts then opened some breathing room with a solid stretch of five-on-five zone time in Middlebury's end. Sophomore
Max Resnick sent the puck around the net to Sedlak halfway up the boards. He quickly put a shot on goal that was saved, but Resnick was coming around the back of the goal for the rebound and flipped in a back-hander with 5:46 on the third-period clock making it 3-1.
Then for the second game in a row, Tufts was able to lock up a victory with an empty-net goal as Dubicki scored in the final minute.
Tufts finished with a 33-24 margin in shots, with Middlebury senior goalie Jake Horoho making 29 saves.
The Jumbos will finish up first-semester action with home games against Bowdoin College and Colby College next weekend. The Panthers host Hamilton and Amherst next weekend.
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