RUTLAND, Vt. – The Skidmore College men's hockey team scored four times in the first period on the way to a 7-1 victory at Vermont State University Castleton on Friday night. The win is the 100^th in the coaching career of Rob Hutchison '07, making him the second coach in program history to reach the milestone.

• The Thoroughbreds used goals from seven different players 13 different players registered points on the night.
• Brandon Spaulding and Coleman Jenkins both had their first-career goals and both also registered assists. Freddie Ilias also finished with a goal and an assist. Cooper Rice, Zach Lindewirth, and Mitchell Floccare each also finished with two points all with a pair of assists.
• Joshua Seeley turned aside a career-high 26 shots to improve his record to 4-1 between the pipes for Skidmore.
• Skidmore is 4-2 on the year and 3-2 in the New England Hockey Conference (NEHC).
• Castleton is 0-6-1 and 0-5.
• With the victory, Skidmore improves 9-1-2 against the Spartans since 2018.
• Hutchison joins Paul Dion in Skidmore's 100-win club. Dion retired with 213 victories over his 23-season career behind the Thoroughbred bench.
• Skidmore scored twice in the first 3:18 of the contest and again four minutes later to take an early 3-0 lead. Spaulding scored his first, from Jenkins and Sam Saccone, to put Skidmore ahead just 2:16 in. Ryan Waltman got the second from Danny Magnuson and Rice, a Rutland native, just 62 second later. Will Dow-Kenny then notched his second goal of the year assisted by Lindewirth at 7:12.
• Castleton answered with its lone goal at 9:40 0f the first to briefly cut the deficit back to two. Luke Chakrabarti got it from Emmett McHardy.
• Skidmore completed the action-packed first period with its fourth goal at 13:03 to make it 4-1. Kaeden Patrick scored it on assists from Evan Brown and Lindewirth.
• The Thoroughbreds completed the scoring with a goal with 2:19 left in the second followed by two more in the third for the 7-1 final.
• Captain Jack Strauss scored his first goal of the season for Skidmore's fifth goal in the second period. Floccare picked up the assist.
• Then, on the power play, Freddie Ilias scored from Jenkins and Rice. Jenkins then got his first-career goal two minutes later to complete the scoring. Ilias and Scott Lagos had the helpers.
• Skidmore dominated special teams, going 2-for-3 on the power play while holding Castleton scoreless in four PP chances. Seeley made eight saves on Thoroughbred penalty kills.

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• Skidmore and Castleton will meet again in Rutland tomorrow at 4 p.m. in the final regular-season conference game between the two programs.