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Cole Eiserman's overtime strike gets BU past game UMass in lively Hockey East quarterfinal

Cole Eiserman's overtime strike gets BU past game UMass in lively Hockey East quarterfinal

Boston Globe16-03-2025

The Terriers came out buzzing, with junior Devin Kaplan's shot nicking the outside of the left post 1:05 into the contest.
BU broke through when Shane Lachance put his own rebound past UMass goalie Michael Hrabal just over five minutes in. The Terriers were on the power play after Ryan Lautenbach went off for hooking. Eiserman sent in a shot that was knocked down in front of the net, where Lachance tracked it down on the doorstep. Hrabal made the initial save, the puck then rolling to the right before Lachance was able to gather it along the goal line and send it back in from his knees off Hrabal's back for the score.
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There was a bit of a scary moment later in the first when BU's Jack Hughes had a breakaway shorthanded bid, but collided with Hrabal, dislodging the net. The 6-foot-7-inch netminder fell to the ice clutching his leg, but was able to continue after a brief stoppage in play.
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Trailing, 1-0, after the first period, UMass drew even 3:32 into the second on a goal by sophomore Jack Musa. The play was set up by junior Cole O'Hara, who circled around the net and carried the puck out front. His bid was denied, but Musa was able to knock it past BU goalie Mikhail Yegorov.
With the assist, O'Hara tied the program's Division 1 record of 51 points in a season, set by James Marcou in 2009-10.
The Terriers reclaimed the lead at 11:26.
Jack Hughes, Tom Willander, and Sascha Boumedienne broke in on a three-on-two. Hughes carried the puck down the left side, with Willander skating down the middle toward the net to draw the defense. That left Boumedienner wide open to bury the pass from Hughes past Hrabal for the 2-1 advantage.
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The goal came moments after UMass muffed a two-on-one chance of its own when sophomore Dans Locmelis attempted a pass that Boumedienne broke up.
UMass nearly tied the game up again with less than five minutes remaining in the second when gradute senior Joey Musa found himself alone in front of the net and deked Yegorov, but his shot clanged off the left post.
BU appeared to double the lead when Quinn Hutson roofed one past Hrabal with 45.6 seconds left in the period, but the goal was overturned after UMass successfully challenged for an offside.
The Minutemen carried that momentum into the third period, during which they outshot the Terriers, 19-9. Only one puck got past Yegorov, though: Aydar Suniev tied the game at 2 with 11:17, assisted by Locmelis and Lautenbach.
And here's Aydar Suneiv's game-tying goal from Locmelis and
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Harvard 3, Clarkson 2 (OT)
— Casey Severo scored 9:09 into overtime in Potsdam, N.Y., to extend the season for the Crimson (13-16-3) into a Sunday Game 3 against the Golden Knights (22-11-3) in the ECAC quarterfinals. Down, 2-0, to the conference's No. 2 seed just 56 seconds into the second period, No. 7 Harvard tied it with goals from Zakary Karpa and Mason Langenbrunner in the next 2:54.
Quinnipiac 4, Brown 0
— The ECAC regular-season champion Bobcats (24-10-2) completed a two-game quarterfinal sweep of the Bears (14-15-3), earning a return to the conference semifinals in Lake Placid with their eighth straight playoff victory at home in Hamden, Conn. Tyler Borgula scored twice, including the middle goal of three third-period tallies for Quinnipiac, with Matej Marinov stopping 34 shots for the shutout.
Dartmouth 7, Union 2
— The Big Green (18-12-2) posted their highest scoring game of the season in completing a two-game ECAC quarterfinal sweep of the Garnet Chargers (19-14-3) in Schenectady, N.Y. Luke Haymes and Nate Morgan each scored twice for Dartmouth, the latter's goals the first and last of a four-goal third period.
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Bentley 2, Sacred Heart 0
— A night after needing to erase a two-goal deficit, Ethan Leyh needed just 56 seconds to put the Falcons (22-14-2) ahead in Fairfield, Conn., as the No. 3 seeds in Atlantic Hockey completed a two-game quarterfinal sweep of the No. 2 Pioneers (21-13-5). Oskar Bakkevig and Leyh added empty-net goals as Sacred Heart's Ajeet Gundarah kept his team in it with 33 saves.
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2025 NHL Draft: Ranking the top 15 overagers, from Francesco Dell'Elce to Charlie Cerrato
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time26-05-2025

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2025 NHL Draft: Ranking the top 15 overagers, from Francesco Dell'Elce to Charlie Cerrato

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Wofford rolls past The Citadel 12-4 in SoCon baseball tournament
Wofford rolls past The Citadel 12-4 in SoCon baseball tournament

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time23-05-2025

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Wofford rolls past The Citadel 12-4 in SoCon baseball tournament

GREENVILLE, S.C. (Wofford SID) – The No. 7 Wofford baseball team earned a 12-4 victory Thursday night at Fluor Field as Kenny Michaels shoved in a complete game gem over No. 3 The Citadel. Wofford improves to 33-25 as the Terriers advance in the Southern Conference Championship presented by Holston Gases. The Bulldogs drop to 30-25. Kenny Michaels (5-3) secured the win as he pitched a complete game, the first by a Terrier since Matthew Marchal in 2023 against UNCG, also in the SoCon Tournament. Over his 9.0 innings, Michaels struck out five while allowing four runs on seven hits and two walks. Andrew Stanely (5-3) took the loss for The Citadel as the starter. He tossed 3.1 innings with four runs (three earned) on four hits and three walks. The Terriers posted a 16-7 hits advantage, led by Tanner Hardin and Cade Collins with three each. The three base knocks are a career high for Collins, who added four RBI for his first-career multi-RBI effort. Hardin tallied one RBI. The quartet of Niko Brini, Tyler Bak, Andrew Mannelly, and Lucas Manning all collected two hits. Brini posted four RBI as Bak, Mannelly, and Tyler Hare each posted one. Brini, Hardin, Manning, and Collins all notched doubles. Bak swiped Wofford's lone steal in the contest. With two walks and a hit by pitch, Mannelly reached safely all five times he stepped to the plate. The Terriers struck first in the top of the first. Ryan Wynn walked and advanced when a pick-off throw got away. From there he scored when Tanner Hardin dropped a double into right center, giving Wofford a quick 1-0 lead. Wofford tacked on one more in the second. A walk and hit by pitch put two on for Niko Brini, whose single plated one to double to margin to 2-0. The lead doubled once more in the fourth. Andrew Mannelly walked, and Lucas Manning doubled to put two in scoring position. Cade Collins then smacked his own double to left center that plated both runners for a 4-0 advantage. The Citadel cracked onto the board in the bottom of the fifth with a trio of runs. A two-run double opened the scoring for the Bulldogs, and a sacrifice squeeze bunt pushed across another. However, the damage was limited when a heads-up throw by Tyler Hare to Collins at third caught a Bulldog too far off the base to close the inning, but The Citadel was within 4-3. In the top of the sixth, Wofford got all three of those runs back. A hit batsman and two singles loaded the bases for Brini, who delivered a bases-clearing double to right center. Wofford's lead stood at 7-3. Four more crossed the plate in the top of the seventh for the Terriers. Hare and Mannelly hit back-to-back RBI singles before Collins brought in two with his single. Wofford led 11-3 at stretch time. An RBI single by Tyler Bak in the top of the eighth stretched the margin to nine runs at 12-3. The Citadel added a solo homer in the bottom of the ninth, but it was all they could scratch across. Kenny Michaels held firm to polish off the complete game and secure the 12-4 Terrier victory. Wofford advances to face No. 2 Samford tomorrow afternoon at 12:30 p.m. in a rematch of last season's SoCon Championship Final. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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