MALDEN, MA (January 17, 2025) – Ninth-ranked Hamilton College won its fifth game in a row with a 6-1 victory over Tufts University in NESCAC men's hockey action Friday night at Valley Forum.
Junior Jackson Krock led four Continentals who finished with multi-point games as he notched a goal and two assists. Tufts broke up the shutout on junior
Max Resnick's goal early in the third period.
The Continentals improve to 11-3 overall and 7-1 in NESCAC to lead the league with 21 points. The Jumbos drop to 4-7-1 overall and 2-5 in the conference.
The teams played 15 minutes of scoreless hockey before junior Carson Hall got things going for Hamilton. He deposited the rebound of a shot by junior Cameron Mirando into the net for a 1-0 Continental lead.
It looked like the game would go to intermission with a one-goal margin, but Hamilton senior Grisha Gotovets scored with two seconds left in the first. He cut left into the slot during a Continental rush and scored on a backhander for a 2-0 advantage.
Continental starting goalie Charlie Archer had to leave the game with an injury early in the second period, but the visitors were unaffected playing in front of sophomore replacement Aksel Reid. Hamilton would add three more goals in the second period to build the lead to 5-0.
Sophomore Luke Tchor snapped one past Tufts goalie
Tade Carman from the right circle at 6:44. Krock scored on a power play at 17:06, redirecting a shot from right in front. Tufts pulled Carman at that point, but the Continentals got another against junior goalie Gus Bylin. Freshman defenseman Sebastian Hamming came down into the slot and converted a pass from Krock.
The Jumbos came out and scored just 18 seconds into the third period for a 5-1 game. After Resnick won a face-off to the left of Reid, Hamilton gained possession. However, Tufts senior
Tyler Sedlak stripped the Hamilton player of the puck and dished right to Resnick. He fired in a shot from just inside the right face-off dot for the lone Jumbo goal.
Hamilton would get its sixth of the game just two minutes later though. Freshman John Wojciechowski went in on a break-away after a Tufts miscue and made a move right to slip it past Bylin for the game's final goal.
Gotovets and Tchor both had a goal and an assist for Hamilton, while James Philpott assisted two goals.
Both teams played two goalies with Reid making 15 saves and Archer 10 for Hamilton. Carman stopped 22 shots and Bylin 12 for the Jumbos. The Continentals had a 40-26 advantage in shots overall.
The Jumbos have lost five straight and face a critical contest at home against Amherst College tomorrow at 4 PM. The Continentals continue on to Connecticut College for tomorrow's 3 PM game.
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