SHELTON, Conn. - The Saint Michael's College men's ice hockey team lost to Post University, 3-0, on Saturday during a Northeast 10 Conference contest at the Sports Center of Connecticut.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (3-2-3, 2-2-2 NE10), Post (2-3-1, 1-3-1 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Sophomore Evan Plunkett (Charlotte, N.C./Holderness School), 30 saves
• Senior Jake Leale (Suffern, N.Y./Connecticut RoughRiders), 7-for-12 faceoffs

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Sophomore Holden Beckett, 1 goal, 1 assist
• Sophomore Eoin Reager, 1 goal, 1 assist
• Senior Baxter Kimball, 1 goal
• Senior Benjamin Cunneen, 22 saves

THE ACTION

• Post accounted for the only first-period scoring, as Reager slipped a shot over Plunkett's left shoulder from the right circle during a power play with 8:34 gone.
• Plunkett turned away all 11 shots sent his way during the second period to keep the score 1-0.
• Beckett doubled the lead 3:18 into the third frame on a power play, taking Reager's drop pass in the right circle before going to the netminder's glove side.
• Plunkett vacated the next for an extra attacker with 2:45 left, and Cunneen maintained the lead by stopping shots from junior Hans Forselius (Guilford, Conn./Seahawks Hockey Club) and sophomore Roman Winicki (Setauket, N.Y./Philadelphia Hockey Club) at 17:40 and 17:54, respectively.
• After a Purple Knight shot whipped around the boards soon thereafter, Kimball hustled to the loose puck and scored on an empty net from just inside the visitors' blue line at 18:36.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Tuesday at Amherst College, 3 p.m.
• The contest will be a homecoming for first-year head coach Jack Fitzgerald, an Amherst alumnus and four-year member of the Mammoths' coaching staff.