BRUNSWICK, Maine -- Hamilton College's Brooke Heck '28 scored with 4:13 left in the third period and pushed the Continentals in front of the Bowdoin College Polar Bears for a 2-1 NESCAC win inside Bowdoin's Sidney J. Watson Arena on Friday night, Feb. 7.
 

Season Update

• Hamilton (10-9-2, 5-6-2 NESCAC) has six wins in its last eight games. The Continentals posted their second win against a nationally ranked team this season.
• The 10^th-ranked Polar Bears (13-5-0, 7-4) have lost three straight and four of their last five. Bowdoin has scored just three goals in its last five games.

 

How it Happened

• The Continentals responded with the game-winner less than four minutes after the Polar Bears scored their lone goal. Lilly Truchon '26 stole the puck from a defender, swung behind the goal and passed to Heck in the back of the zone. Heck took a wrist shot from behind the right circle and into the top of the net.
• Truchon put Hamilton in front with just 2.7 seconds remaining in an evenly played first period. After a Bowdoin turnover, Truchon's initial shot from the blue line was blocked by a defender. The puck went to Ali Joseph '25 who took a shot from the middle of the zone. The shot was saved but not held, and Truchon found the puck and outmaneuvered the goaltender for a shot into the open net.
• Bowdoin evened the score with 7:51 to go in the third period. Elizabeth Kent laid off the puck to Kiley Briand who fired a centering pass from the left circle. Anyi Sun lifted the pass above the goaltender's right shoulder.
• The Polar Bears put six shots on goal during two power plays in the third and pulled their goaltender for a sixth skater with about 1:30 left, but couldn't score a second goal.

 

Notes

• Heck, a defender playing for the first time since Jan. 21, scored her second goal this season.
• Truchon leads the Continentals with six goals and is one of four players with 11 points. The multi-point game is her third this season.
• Joseph picked up her ninth career assist at Hamilton.
• Teagan Brown '27 made 11 of her 24 saves in the third period for the Continentals. Brown has a 1.59 goals against average and .944 save percentage in 16 starts.
• Abby Weiss '25 won 6-of-8 faceoffs for Hamilton.
• Bowdoin, which led the conference with a power-play percentage of nearly 25 percent going into tonight, went 0-for-5 on the power play.
• The Continentals have allowed three power-play goals in 46 chances this season.
• Hamilton is 3-0-2 in its last five meetings with the Polar Bears.

 

Next Game

The two teams play again at Watson Arena on Saturday, Feb. 8 at 3 p.m.