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Luke Tchor '27
2
Bowdoin BOW 8-3-1, 4-1-1
3
Winner Hamilton HAM 9-1-2, 5-0-1
Bowdoin BOW
8-3-1, 4-1-1
2
Final
3
Hamilton HAM
9-1-2, 5-0-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 F
Bowdoin BOW 1 1 0 2
Hamilton HAM 1 1 1 3

Game Recap: Men's Ice Hockey | | Jim Taylor

No. 5 men's hockey edges No. 9 Bowdoin on goal by Tchor '27 in third period

Continentals remained unbeaten in the NESCAC at 5-0-1

CLINTON, N.Y. – Hamilton College's Luke Tchor '27 scored the game-winning goal early in the third period and added two assists in the Continentals' 3-2 NESCAC victory against the Bowdoin College Polar Bears inside Hamilton's Russell Sage Rink on Friday night, Jan. 9.
 

Season Update

  • The fifth-ranked Continentals (9-1-2, 5-0-1 NESCAC) rebounded from their first loss this season on Jan. 3. Hamilton is the only NESCAC team that's unbeaten in conference play.
  • Nationally ranked No. 9 Bowdoin (8-3-1, 4-1-1) won its previous two games by the combined score of 11-2.
 

How It Happened

  • Tchor scored on the power play while the teams were skating 4-on-3 at 1:36 of the third period. Devon de Vries '27 passed from the high slot to Tchor near the bottom of the right faceoff circle and he ripped a one-timer past goaltender Jacob Osborne.
  • Will Rice put the Polar Bears on the scoreboard first with 4:47 left in the opening period. Rice scored on a rebound after a shot by Bryce Bollman was turned away.
  • The Continentals tied the score with just 42.8 seconds left in the first. Tchor and Brendan Waivada '27 played the puck up the left-side boards to Zach Walsh '29. Walsh carried the puck along the blue line and started to skate into the slot, but instead kept drifting to the right into the faceoff circle and took a wrist shot that found the back of the net.
  • Hamilton took its first lead on a power-play goal 9:17 into the second period. Devon de Vries passed the puck from the point into the right faceoff circle where John Wojciechowski '28 hammered a one-timer from above the faceoff dot, top-shelf past Osborne.
  • Pierre Larocque drew Bowdoin even on a wrist shot from above the right faceoff circle with 7:38 left in the second.
  • The Polar Bears pulled Osborne for a sixth skater with a little more than two minutes left in the third period. Bowdoin managed three shots, including two on goal, and Aksel Reid '27 stopped them both.
 

Notes

  • Tchor has seven multi-point games this season. He's second in the conference with nine goals, second with 12 assists and first with 21 points.
  • Wojciechowski – a defenseman – scored his second goal and recorded his third multi-point game this season.
  • Walsh notched his first collegiate goal.
  • Devon de Vries picked up two helpers and leads the conference with 13.
  • Waivada registered his third assist and fifth point of 2025-26.
  • Reid finished with 21 stops. He's third in the NESCAC with a 1.90 goals against average and owns a .918 save percentage in 10 starts.
  • Jackson Krock '26 won 18-of-30 faceoffs. Krock is second in the conference with a face-off winning percentage of 59.4 percent.
  • The Continentals were 2-for-5 on the power play while the Polar Bears were 0-for-2. Hamilton has given up just two power-play goals in 33 chances.
 

Next Game

The Continentals host Colby College (7-3-2, 3-2-1) for another NESCAC contest on Saturday, Jan. 10 at 3 p.m.
 
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