SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The nationally 15^th-ranked Skidmore College men's hockey team played to a 2-2 tie with SUNY Brockport in the Skidmore Thanksgiving Invitational title game on Sunday afternoon. Brockport won the shootout, 1-0, to win the championship.
 

• Matt Anastasio, who earlier scored Brockport's second goal, scored in the third round of the shootout on the forehand to put the Golden Eagles on the brink of winning.
• Tournament most valuable player David Filak then stopped Skidmore's Kaeden Patrick to win it.
• The game is officially recorded as a 2-2 tie.
• Skidmore is 7-0-2 and is one of six teams in DIII without a loss. Only two others - #1 Plattsburgh State, #6 St. Scholastica – are unbeaten having played at least five games.
• After falling behind 2-0, Skidmore forced overtime with a late second period goal by Jaden York and an early third period tally by Kaeden Patrick.
• York scored twice on the weekend and was named to the All-Tournament Team along with Nick Cozzi and Tate Brandon.
• Cozzi had the primary assist on York's goal at the 17:54 mark of the middle period.
• Everett Wardle collected an assist on Patrick's tying goal at 1:58 of the third. Will Dow-Kenny had secondary helpers on both of them.
• Brandon made 14 saves.
• Brockport went up 1-0 with 1:35 left in the first period on a Jacob Gates shot from Spencer Flansburg and Chase Maxwell. Gates represented Brockport on the All-Tournament team in addition to MVP goalie Filak.
• It was 2-0 visitors at 13:03 of the second on Antanasio's goal in a scrum in the Skidmore crease. Nick Serafin had the assist.
• Skidmore had four chances and eight full minutes on the power play but did not score despite registering eight shots on goal. Brockport did not record a shot on goal in its only extra-man opportunity in the middle of the third period.
• Skidmore dominated the shot department, 39-16. Filak made 70 saves over the two-day tournament.
• In the consolation game earlier in the day, #10 Salve Regina picked up a 3-2 win over Tufts.
• The All-Tournament team was rounded out by Max Resnick of Tufts and Johnny Mulera of Salve Regina.

NEXT UP: Skidmore will jump back into league play next weekend on the road at Southern Maine and Babson.