#7 Men's Ice Hockey Bows Out of NCAA Tournament in Quarterfinals
A storybook season for the #7 Curry College men's ice hockey team has come to a close, as the Colonels fell 5-1 to #2 Hobart College in the Quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Championship at the Cooler on Saturday night.
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Team Stats
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| Game Statistics | Curry | Hobart |
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| PowerPlays | 1 for 1 | 0 for 2 |
| Shorthanded Goals | 0 | 0 |
| Penalties (min) | 2 (4) | 1 (2) |
| Shots on Goal | 18 | 35 |
| Face Offs Won | 32 | 34 |
GENEVA, N.Y. - A storybook season for the #7 Curry College men's ice hockey team has come to a close, as the Colonels fell 5-1 to #2 Hobart College in the Quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Championship at the Cooler on Saturday night.
With the defeat, Curry's season ends with a record of 22-6-1.
Neither team found the net in the first-period in a frame that feautred only 13 shots. The Statesmen held a narrow 7-6 advantage in shots on goal, but graduate netminder Reid Cooper (Corman Park, Saskatchewan) stopped all seven shots he faced.
Curry opened the scoring midway through the second period when graduate student Tarek Paranica (Grand Forks, N.D.). Paranica finished off a backdoor feed from freshman Kevin Pitts (Pointe-Claire, Quebec) on the power play to put the Colonels ahead 1-0 at the 8:56 mark of the frame. A secondary assist was credited to junior George Vonakis (Abingdon, Md.).
The Statesmen flipped the contest on its head late in the period however, scoring three goals in 35 seconds to go into the locker room for the second intermission ahead 3-1.
Hobart stretched its lead to three on a goal 3:38 into the third, giving the hosts a commanding 4-1 lead. The Colonels could not close the gap, and the Statesmen sealed the deal with an empty-netter with 12.6 seconds to play.
Between the pipes, Cooper finished the evening with 30 saves on 34 shots faced. The Colonels were nearly doubled up in shots on the night, as the Statesmen outshot Curry 35-18.
Among the team's achievements in the historic 2022-23 season were the highest ever national ranking in program history (fifth), the first time the program earned the right to host an NCAA Tournament game, and the program's first ever NCAA Tournament win.
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