ITHACA, N.Y. – Hamilton College's Thomas Healy '26 posted four points and Jack Fried '25 made 10 saves in the Continentals' 10-7 non-conference win against the Ithaca College Bombers at Ithaca's Higgins Stadium on Tuesday night, March 25.
 

Season Update

• Hamilton (3-4 overall) has allowed 12 goals in winning its last two games.
• The Bombers (7-3), who are 1-0 in the Liberty League, came into the night with a five-game win streak. Ithaca had won its first six home games this season.

 

How It Happened

• The Continentals jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the opening four minutes and never trailed. Wyatt Estepp '27 scored the first goal and Milo Trabulsy '25 added a man-up tally with 11:30 left.
• The Bombers notched the next two goals and tied the score with 8:01 remaining in the first.
• Carson Kraus '28 put Hamilton in the lead for good with 7:08 to go in the quarter. Justin Pearl '25 and Will Heher '25 found the back of the net early in the second quarter for a 5-2 advantage.
• Ithaca's Graham Brady made it 5-3 with 4:45 left in the second, and the Continentals took that two-goal edge into the break.
• Healy scored three of Hamilton's next four goals. A goal by long-stick midfielder Jayme Wilde '25 gave the Continentals their largest lead of five goals at 8-3 with 2:00 remaining in the third quarter.
• After the Bombers scored with 1:11 to go in the third, Healy restored the five-goal cushion 93 seconds into the fourth quarter.
• Ithaca frantically tried to get back into it as the Bombers ran off the next three goals, but by the time they made it 9-7, there was just 1:04 left.
• Hamilton won the ensuing faceoff on a violation and Evan deBerjeois '27 scored into an empty net with 31 seconds remaining as Ithaca tried to pressure the Continentals into committing a turnover.

 

Notes

• Healy finished with three goals and his first assist this season. He leads the team with 14 goals.
• Reece Hickey '26 won 8-of-10 faceoffs and scooped up four ground balls. Hickey is second on the team with 22 ground balls.
• Seven other Hamilton players scored a goal.
• Trabulsy scored his second goal this season.
• Estepp and deBerjeois posted their first goals.
• Heher and Pearl recorded goals for the sixth straight game.
• Kraus collected his fourth goal.
• Wilde registered his third goal this season.
• The Continentals defeated the Bombers for the first time in more than 50 years. The teams last played in 2007.

 

Next Game

Hamilton goes back on the road for a NESCAC game at Bowdoin College (6-1, 3-1) on Saturday, March 29 at 1 p.m.