ELMIRA, N.Y. – Senior Curtis Judd (Newton, Mass./Albany Academy) scored the lone goal for the University of Southern Maine men's ice hockey team on Friday night in a 5-1 New England Hockey Conference loss to the #11 nationally-ranked Elmira College.
 
When and Where: Friday, November 4, 2022 – Elmira, N.Y.
 
Score: Soaring Eagles 5, Huskies 1
 
History: Elmira now leads the all-time series 4-0-2
 
The Records: Elmira: 2-1-0 (1-0-0 NEHC); Southern Maine: 0-2-0 (0-1-0 NEHC)
 
The Goaltenders: Kyle Curtin: 1-0-0, 31 saves; sophomore Mason Palmer (Cumming, Ga./Connections Academy): 0-2-0, 37 saves.
 
How It Happened/Inside the Boxscore:

• Kerfalla Toure put the Soaring Eagles ahead 1-0 with less than three minutes left in the first period with Larry Niland and Nathan Young providing the assists.
• The Huskies outshot the Soaring Eagles 11-9 and won the faceoff battle 11-5 in the first period.
• In The second period Southern Maine's Nick Nault (Goffstown, NH) was sent to the penalty box for holding to give Elmira a power-play opportunity. The Huskies successfully killed the penalty with Palmer making five saves during the span.
• The Soaring Eagles got another power-play opportunity in the second and this time converted when Janis Vizbelis scored with Amedeo Mastrangeli and Bailey Krawczyk assisting.
• Young scored an unassisted goal 24 second into the third period to put the home team up 3-0 and Elmira went up 4-0 off a shorthanded goal by Chance Gorman from Graham Denomme.
• Judd put the Huskies on the board with an unassisted goal 14:48 into the third period. The goal was his first of the season.
• In the final minutes of the game Brendan Schultz scored off an assist from Jake Russo to make the final score 5-1.
• Judd led the Huskies with four shots while Gorman had five for Elmira.
• Freshman Jakub Suran (Liberec, Czech Republic) tied with Elmira's Nick Parody for the game-lead in blocked shots with four apiece.
• The Soaring Eagles won the faceoff battle 38-29 and had 10 more shots than the Huskies (42-32).
• Elmira killed two power-plays during the game.

 
Up Next: The Huskies will play another NEHC game tomorrow afternoon at 4PM at Hobart College.