HENNIKER, N.H. – Mike Gelatt scored twice and had an assist, and the Skidmore College men's hockey team won its fourth straight game, 5-2, on the road at New England College Friday evening.
 
Skidmore is now 7-2 over its last nine contests, 11-6-1 overall, and 6-4-1 (19 points) in the New England Hockey Conference (NEHC). The Thoroughbreds sit tied with Elmira for fourth place in the league. The Pilgrims are 9-6-1 and 4-6-1 (13 points).
 
For Gelatt, it is his second two-goal showing over his past four games. The senior winger is up to six goals and five assists on the year. Matthew Monk had two assists for his first-career multi-point game. Freddie Macciocchi scored his first-career goal to cap Skidmore's three-goal second period. Austin Rook scored for the third time in his last four games, one of two Thoroughbred power-play goals. It held up as the game winner.
 
NEC scored first at the 7:56 mark of the first period on the power play. Alex Laplante scored from Anthony Cinato and CJ Valerian.
 
Gelatt got Skidmore on the board at 12:04 of the first to tie it up on a deflection from Kaeden Patrick and Monk. Patrick went on to score on the empty net in the final minute. Gelatt got his second with nine seconds left on the Skidmore power play early in the second period on a shirt-side wrister.
 
Reid Russell and Will Dow-Kenny assisted on Rook's goal from the right-wing circle inside the far post. NEC then got one back on a blistering slap shot from Bernie McGovern at the 7:06 mark of the middle stanza. Macciocchi joined the party with 5:51 left in the second period after taking a stretch pass from Monk at the blue line and slipping in a wrist shot from the faceoff dot.
 
Tate Brandon had 26 saves for Skidmore to earn the win. Spencer Kozlowski turned away 38 shots for the hosts in the effort.
 
The Thoroughbreds will wrap the weekend road trip on Saturday at 4 p.m. at nationally 11^th-ranked Norwich.