ATTLEBORO, Mass. – Junior Austin Marini (Hyde Park, Mass./Catholic Memorial) scored a goal and assisted on another as the University of Southern Maine men's ice hockey team picked up a much-needed New England Hockey Conference win over Johnson & Wales University on Saturday evening.
 
When and Where: Saturday, January 21, 2023 – Attleboro, Mass. – New England Sports Village
 
Score: Huskies 5, Wildcats 2
 
The Records: Southern Maine: 4-14-1, 3-10-0 NEHC, Johnson & Wales: 2-15-1, 1-11-0
 
The Goaltenders: Sophomore Kyle Penton (Waltham, Mass./Albany Academy): 4-7-1, 26 saves, two goals allowed; Jake Perrin: 2-15-1, 26 saves, four goals allowed. 
 
How It Happened/Inside the Boxscore:

• Senior Curtis Judd (Newton, Mass./Albany Academy) scored 3:20 into the first period with his 11^th goal of the season with linemates Zach Desmarais (St. Cyrille, QC, Canada) and Marini providing the assists. Judd's goal came after Perrin stopped two Marini shots in a short span.
• Freshman forward Conor Donovan (Nahant, Mass./Swampscott) doubled the lead with the first goal of his career 1:02 later. Sophomore Azam Jiwa (Calgary, AB, Canada/West Island College) recorded his sixth helper of the season.
• The Wildcats added a goal in the final five minutes of the period with a Cam Martin goal.
• Neither team scored in the second period as Penton made 10 saves and Perrin made eight.
• Marini scored a power play goal off a Cole Ouellette (Lewiston, Maine) rebound to put the Huskies up 3-1. Desmarais and Ouellette had assists on the game-winner.
• Senior Tanner McClure (Buxton, Maine/Bonny Eagle) scored 1:16 later to make the score 4-1 with sophomore Tyler Mitchell (Burlington, ON, Canada) recording his third assist of the season.
• Davis Bone cut the lead to 4-2 in the final three minutes but a Nolan McElhaney (Natick, Mass./Long Island University) empty-netter on the power play put the game out of reach for the Wildcats. Freshman Kadin Ilott (Kenora, ON, Canada) assisted on the empty-netter.
• The win gives the Huskies a season sweep over the Wildcats. Southern Maine previously defeated the Wildcats 3-0 in Gorham on November 11 with Penton recording a shutout.
• Desmaries' two points from today gives him a total of four in the home-and-home with JWU. He scored a goal and had an assist in the earlier game.
• Ouellette, Judd, Marini and Ilott also had points in the last meeting between the teams with Ouellette scoring a goal and the other three notching assists.

 
Up Next: The Huskies will host Colby College on Tuesday night in the final non-conference game of the season.