The men's hockey team dropped its second straight NESCAC game, losing 6-2 to visiting Bowdoin Saturday at Russell Sage Rink. The Continentals, who are ranked 15th by both D3hockey.com and USCHO.com, are now 12-6-2 overall and 7-5-2 in the NESCAC.

Box Score 

The Polar Bears scored three times in a span of 2:03 to take control in the opening period and held on to improve to 10-7-3 overall with a 6-5-3 NESCAC mark. A total of 10 Bowdoin players picked up either a goal or an assist including Matt Rubinoff, who scored two goals and assisted on a third.

Conor Lamberti '17 put Hamilton on the board less than two minutes into the second, blasting a slap shot from the blue line into the Polar Bear net for his team-high third power-play goal of the season. Neil Conway '18 sent a pass from behind the net to Robbie Murden '17 below the right faceoff circle and Murden's cross-ice pass to Lamberti set up the goal. Conway and Murden lead the NESCAC in both points (24 and 28, respectively) and assists (16 and 15).

Conway pulled the hosts to within 5-2 off the third-period faceoff, knocking in a rebound after Bowdoin's Peter Cronin had made one of his 30 saves. Murden and Tyler Lovejoy '16 were credited with assists on the play.

The Polar Bears' first-period flurry started 11:41 in, when a shot by Matthew Melanson went wide of the Hamilton net but bounced off the boards directly to Jay Kourkoulis in the slot. Kourkoulis' goal came just seconds after the Continentals had appeared to have killed a Bowdoin power play but the Hamilton player was ruled to have left the penalty box two seconds early, the Polar Bears went back to a five-on-four advantage and capitalized just over 30 seconds later when Rubinoff put in his first goal. A little more than a minute later Cody Todesco hit a streaking Jason Nawrocki with a pass near the blue line and Nawrocki scored on a wrist shot to give the visitors a three-goal lead.

Spencer Antunez scored just six seconds into a Bowdoin power play midway through the second, with Mitch Barrington and Chris Wallace picking up assists. With 70 seconds left in the period, Rubinoff deflected a pass during a Hamilton power play that set up Matthew Lison on a short-handed breakaway that he converted for the 5-1 lead. Lison returned the favor late in the third, stealing a pass in the Continental end and feeding Rubinoff for an empty-net goal.

Evan Buitenhuis '18 stopped 29 shots for Hamilton, which has dropped three of four since recording an 11-game unbeaten streak.

The Continentals play their final home games of the regular season next weekend, hosting Connecticut College and Tufts. Saturday's game against the Camels is set for a 7 p.m. faceoff.