Colby Advances to NESCAC Semifinals with 5-1 Victory Over Connecticut College
Courtesy Colby Sports Information
WATERVILLE, Maine Josh Reber (Edina, Minn.) had two goals and two assists and goalie Ben Grandjean (Waterford, Conn.) earned his 30th career victory as the third-seeded Colby College men's hockey team took a 5-1 win over sixth-seeded Connecticut College in a New England Small College Athletic Conference quarterfinal on Saturday at Alfond Rink.
Colby will stay in Maine for next weekend's NESCAC Final Four. The Mules (14-8-2) will play second-seeded Middlebury College next Saturday at 4 p.m. in a semifinal game at Bowdoin College. The top-seeded Polar Bears will take on No. 5 Amherst College in the other semifinal at 1 p.m. The NESCAC title game is Sunday at 1 p.m. at Bowdoin.
Reber scored the first two goals of the game at 11:07 and 12:49 of the first period to give the Mules a 2-0 lead at the first intermission.
Joe Rothwell (Unionville, Ontario) tallied at 2:20 of the second period on the power play to put the Mules up 3-0, but the Camels (10-13-2) battled back when Brett Moore (Medfield, Mass.) scored at 7:07 on the power play to make it 3-1 after two periods.
Colby captain Greg Osborne (Stoughton, Mass.) scored his 21st goal of the season to give the Mules some breathing room at 2:10 of the third period. Ryan Chrenek (Grande Prairie, Alberta) got the final goal at 13:56 in a short-handed situation.
Colby's Arthur Fritch (South Boston, Mass.) had three assists and has 25 for the season as he leads all Division III defensemen in scoring. Reber, a junior, has 97 career points with 24 goals and 73 assists.
Grandjean made 27 saves in moving his career record at Colby to 30-16-4 in 50 starts. Camel goalie Greg Parker (Trenton, Ontario) had 23 stops.
