Box Score

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Skidmore College hockey team beat St. Michael's College by one goal for the second time this season, 4-3 Friday night in Carins Arena.Arena. The Thoroughbreds won the first meeting 1-0 decision in December. The Purple Knights are now 7-16 overall and 4-11 in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) East, while Skidmore improves to 11-10-2 and 8-7-1.

Sophomore David Limoges (Saint-Hippolye, Quebec/Albany Academy) had a goal and an assist for Skidmore, while juniors Aaron Beck (Maribel, Wis./Lake Forest Academy) and Vlad Gavrik (Kharkiv, Ukraine/Hebron Academy) and first-year Ondrej Krajnak (Presov, Slovakia/Salisbury School) also scored. Sophomore Thomas Park (Framingham, Mass./Noble & Greenough) had a pair of assists, and first-year Ben Freiberg (Weston, Mass./Avon Old Farms) made 25 stops.

Senior Josh Geary (Wellesley, Mass./Phillips Andover Academy) had two goals and an assist for Saint Michael's, while senior Mike Dizgun (Montreal, Quebec/OCN Blizzard) made 29 saves.

Each team potted a power-play marker late in the first period. After Dizgun twice denied Limoges on the doorstep, Beck stuffed in a loose puck at 14:04. However, Geary countered 1:22 later.

Freiberg denied Geary on a breakaway five minutes into the second period, sticking out his right leg for the save, before Dizgun denied sophomore T.J. Schneider's (Sound Beach, N.Y./Milton Academy) point-blank redirect at 8:49 that was headed toward the upper right corner. Limoges skated in alone and picked the lower right corner at 10:31 to put Skidmore back on top, but Geary responded at 12:52 on a power play.

After a scramble in the front of the net during the third period, Krajnak batted the go-ahead marker up and over Dizgun from out front at 7:52, and Gavrik padded the lead at 14:55 by picking the upper right corner from the slot. With 11.4 seconds remaining, Soustal hit the left side of the net following a scramble with his team playing 6-on-5 to make it 4-3, and a last-second effort narrowly resulted in a tying attempt being fired after the buzzer.

The Thoroughbreds travel to #1 Norwich University for a 4 p.m. game Friday.