CORTLAND, N.Y. – Bryan Tang scored with 31.1 seconds remaining in overtime to lift the Skidmore College men's hockey team to a 5-4 win at Cortland on Saturday evening.

• Tang's fourth goal of the weekend capped a wild back-and-forth game, in which Skidmore erased a two-goal deficit before taking the lead with three second-period goals. Cortland then scored tying goals with 6:46 remaining and then again with 16.3 seconds left to send the game into overtime.
• Oscar Worob broke the 3-3 tie for Skidmore (9-9-2, 6-6-1 SUNYAC) with a go-ahead marker just past the 15-minute mark of the third before the Red Dragons scored with an extra attacker to force overtime.
• Tang prevented the teams from tying for the second time this season with his winning goal on a drive to the net in overtime.
• Tang finished with a goal and an assist, as did Jacob Zwirecki. Dylan Shane had a goal and two assists to match Coleman Jenkins, who assisted three times, for the game-high point total.
• Worob and Bryce Terry had the other Thoroughbred goals.
• Cortland (9-10-1, 6-6-1) connected on the power play with 6:33 remaining in the opening period and doubled the lead 2:35 later.
• Terry scored from Tyler Fogu and Tang at the 3:15 mark of the second to cut the deficit in half, and Shane tied it just over three minutes later.
• Zwirecki put an exclamation point on Skidmore's dominant second period with a power-play tally with 2:48 left.
• Both teams scored twice on the power play. Skidmore was 2-for-5, while Cortland finished 2-for-6.  
• Four different players found the back of the net for the hosts. Alex Zakrzewski and Nathan Garnier each contributed a goal and an assist.
• Tommy Aitken matched his career high with 38 saves, including 14 stops on Cortland power plays, for his fifth win of the year.
• Shane Shelest turned aside 29 shots for Cortland.
• Cortland had a 42-34 edge in shots on goal.
• Each of Skidmore and Cortland's five meetings since 2019 have been decided by one goal. Skidmore now owns the head-to-head tiebreaker following the tie in November.

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Skidmore returns home next weekend to host Fredonia and Buffalo State in its final regular season home games of the season.