MIDDLETOWN, R.I. – The Skidmore College men's hockey team rebounded from Saturday evening's loss to Salve Regina with an emphatic 6-2 victory over the Seahawks in Sunday afternoon's rematch.

• The win puts the Thoroughbreds back into the postseason as they can finish no worse than in a tie for seventh.
• Skidmore (12-11, 10-8 NEHC), currently in fifth place, is in the driver's seat of a potential home playoff game if it gathers three more points next weekend. The Thoroughbreds sit at 30 points but just two back of Salve Regina. The Seahawks have completed their regular season locked in with 32 points. Two Skidmore wins next weekend, with at least one in regulation, can catapult the Thoroughbreds all the way up to second.
• Skidmore led 2-0 after the first and 4-1 following the second on the way to the 6-2 final.
• Coleman Jenkins scored twice for Skidmore, his sixth and seventh.
• Oscar Worob and Matthew Franzoi both had two points on the night each with a goal and an assist.
• Jacob Zwirecki and Scott Lagos scored the other Skidmore goals.
• Evan Brown collected a pair of assists.
• Jenkins struck first, from Sam Saccone and Brown, to give Skidmore the lead at the 6:29 mark.
• Worob doubled the lead with 2:11 left in the opening period from Franzoi and Jaden York.
• Salve Regina cut into the lead on a Braeden Young goal 41 seconds into the middle period.
• Franzoi got the two-goal lead back for the Thoroughbreds at 5:57 from Worob and Jack Struass.
• Zwirecki made it 4-1 Skidmore with 3:44 remaining in the second.
• The Seahawks scored another early goal, shorthanded, to cut it to 4-2.
• Lagos connected from defensemen Will Dow-Kenny and Nick Troutwins making it 5-2 with 7:20 left.
• Jenkins notched his second on the empty net. Brown and Mitchell Floccare added points with assists.
• Joshua Seeley stopped 10 shots in each of the first two periods on the way to 27 on the night.
• Salve netminder Cayden Bailey turned aside 37 shots.
• Neither team scored on the power play despite nine combined chances.
• Frustrations mounted late, when 78 penalty minutes were given out at a stoppage with 1:35 to play.
• If league standings remain intact, Skidmore will go right back to Salve Regina in two weeks for the NEHC Quarterfinals.

UP NEXT

• Skidmore closes the regular season next weekend at home against Norwich. The first of two, on Friday, Feb. 21, begins at 7 p.m.