Junior center Max Scott capped a University of Maine rally from a 2-0 deficit by scoring 33 seconds into overtime as the Black Bear hockey team beat Colgate 3-2 at the Alfond Arena on Saturday night.
UMaine snapped a three-game winless streak and improved to 3-2-1. Colgate is 2-3-1.
UMaine freshman left wing Justin Poirier tied the game 2:08 into the third period when Lukas Peterson’s dump-in took a crazy bounce off the boards to the center of the ice. Poirier stickhandled around Takacs and deposited it into the empty net.
Scott, younger brother of former Black Bear center and leading scorer Harrison Scott, picked up the puck on the right wing side of the offensive zone and skated into the right circle before firing a low wrist shot that squeezed between the pads of Colgate goalie Andrew Takacs.
Colgate defenseman Michael Neumeier had lost his stick.
Charlie Russell and Brandon Holt earned assists.
Sophomore left wing Jack Brandt, the reigning ECAC Forward of the Week, opened the scoring on the power play at the 10:15 mark.
Brandt staked Colgate to a 2-0 lead with a pair of first-period goals before UMaine senior left wing Thomas Freel cut the lead in half with the only goal of the second period.
On his first goal, he was able to get inside position on UMaine defenseman Frank Djurasevic at the top of the crease and tipped Isaiah Norlin’s pass past Boija. Ryan Sullivan also picked up an assist.
It was the sixth power play goal allowed by the Black Bears on 14 opportunities in three games.
His second of the period and fourth of the season came off a pass out of the corner by Sullivan.
Brandt slipped between two Black Bears and snapped a 20-foot wrist shot past Boija’s blocker.
Norlin also assisted.
Freel’s goal, his third of the season, came on the power play just 1:06 into the middle period.
Freel received the puck in the right wing corner off a pass from Brandon Holt and whipped the puck to the net where it deflected in past Takacs.
Justin Poirier also earned an assist.
