Visiting Colby scored with just 27.6 seconds left in overtime in a wild game at Hamilton's Russell Sage Rink and handed the Continentals a 2-1 loss Friday.

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The two teams were less than 30 seconds away from skating to a tie after trading first period goals before Colby's Devin Albert netted the game winner. The Continentals, now 12-5-2 overall and 7-4-2 in the NESCAC, are ranked 15th in both the USCHO.com and D3hockey.com polls.

Albert beat Hamilton goaltender Evan Buitenhuis '18 for his 10th goal of the winter. Cam MacDonald (12 on the season) and Jack Burton (eight) earned assists on the play. The Mules are now 7-8-4, 4-7-2.

Hamilton had nearly won the game in the opening moments of overtime; After Nick O'Connor won the initial faceoff and took a shot that Buitenhuis saved, he took a follow-up that was blocked, with the rebound winding up on the stick of Kenny Matheson '16. Matheson led a 2-on-2 rush that ended with his shot going just over the crossbar.

Both teams scored in the opening period. Geoff Sullivan gave the visitors the early lead with a power-play goal 2:35 into play. Hamilton blue-liner Bennett Hambrook '17 blocked a shot by Albert and the Continentals had a chance to clear the puck out of their zone, but Sullivan wound up with the puck and beat Buitenhuis from the left faceoff circle.

Midway through the period, Hamilton knotted the score on a goal created by precision passing from its top line. Brandon Willett '18 sprung Robbie Murden '17 down the left side and Murden carried the puck to the faceoff circle; when Colby's Emerson Verrier slid to that side of the net, Murden crossed the puck to Neil Conway '18, who was set up inside the right faceoff circle. Verrier slid back to his glove side but even as his momentum was taking him to the right post, Conway was threading a shot across the goal mouth that snuck into the net inside the left post.

The Continentals close out their weekend NESCAC series with a 3 p.m. game against visiting Bowdoin.