Cornell men’s hockey captain and senior forward Ryan Walsh has been named to the U.S. Collegiate Selects roster for the 2026 Spengler Cup, it was announced Thursday afternoon (Nov. 5).

Walsh, who played for the Selects in their Spengler Cup debut last December, and Wisconsin junior defenseman Logan Hensler were the two players added Thursday, bringing the roster to 16. Walsh and Minnesota Duluth forward Zam Plante are the only two players from last year’s team named to the roster so far.

Walsh joins sophomore defenseman Xavier Veilleux, who was named to the roster Oct. 22, and Casey Jones ’90, the Jay R. Bloom ’77 Head Coach of Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey, who will serve as an assistant coach alongside Minnesota Duluth’s Scott Sandelin under New Hampshire head coach Mike Souza.

“It was an easy answer for me,” Walsh said of the invitation to return. “I talked with my family, but I knew in my heart that I would love to go back. I’m really fortunate and honored to have the opportunity to go back again.”

“I’m really excited for Ryan. He represented Cornell Hockey the right way in Davos last year, so it doesn’t surprise me at all that they wanted him back,” Jones said. “The Spengler Cup is a big stage against professional teams, and having three of us there representing Cornell is great for our program and for our league. Ryan knows what that experience is about, and he’ll help Xavier and the newcomers get comfortable quickly.”

Walsh is the fifth ECAC Hockey student-athlete on this year’s team, joining Veilleux, Union defenseman Tyler Dunbar, Quinnipiac defenseman Elliott Groenewold and Dartmouth forward Hayden Stavroff. Last year’s team had two players from the conference: Walsh and Quinnipiac forward Chris Pelosi. The rest of the 25-man roster, which will include student-athletes from all six NCAA Division I conferences, will be announced in the coming weeks.

“I think this is amazing for Cornell especially, but also the ECAC,” Walsh said. “It shows that we can compete at any level and that we’re just as good as any other team. The more the Spengler Cup and the U.S. Collegiate Selects become a yearly thing, I think we’re going to have a lot of guys from Cornell, the Ivy League and the ECAC going.”

Walsh made last year’s trip without knowing anyone on the roster. This time, he’ll have familiar faces in Jones and Veilleux, and he said that “is going to be a lot of fun.”

“At the end of the day, it’s hockey in a different place with a bunch of guys you’ve never really met, but their staff does an amazing job getting guys to know each other,” Walsh said. “By the time we play our first game, we feel pretty much like a normal team. I’m really excited to share those experiences with them.”

A native of Rochester, N.Y., Walsh is in his second season as Cornell’s captain. He has 2-1—3 in two games this season, with both goals and an assist coming in the Big Red’s 5-2 win over Sacred Heart on Oct. 30. He leads all Division I skaters with 23.0 faceoff wins per game and ranks second nationally with a .711 faceoff percentage (minimum 30 faceoffs taken). As a junior, he posted 10-23—33 in 33 games after leading the Big Red with 17 goals as a sophomore (17-14—31 in 36 games). While donning a Big Red sweater, Walsh has 41-48—89 in 106 games.

In their debut, the Selects won Group Cattini, which earned them a bye into the semifinals. They then reached the championship game, where they fell to host HC Davos, 6-3. Walsh scored a game-tying goal and added an assist in the title game, his only two points of the tournament.

This year’s field puts the SCL Tigers, Adler Mannheim and Ilves Tampere in Group Torriani. HC Davos, Frölunda HC and the U.S. Collegiate Selects make up Group Cattini.

Group play runs daily from Dec. 26 to Dec. 28. The two group winners advance directly to the semifinals. The other four teams meet in the pre-semifinals on Dec. 29, and the two winners claim the last two semifinal spots. The championship game is Thursday, Dec. 31, at 12:10 p.m. local time (6:10 a.m. ET).

The Selects open against Frölunda HC on Saturday, Dec. 26, at 8:15 p.m. local time (2:15 p.m. ET). They then face HC Davos at 8:15 p.m. (2:15 p.m. ET), on Sunday, Dec. 27, if they lose to Frölunda, or on Monday, Dec. 28, if they win.

Last year, U.S. viewers could watch the games on the Spengler Cup’s YouTube channel, and TSN carried them in Canada. Viewing details for this year’s tournament will be announced at a later date.

October 30-November 1

Buffalo State

The Bengals will open their regular season this weekend with back-to-back games against Hiram College. Puck drops at 7 pm. on Friday, November 6 and 3 p.m. on Saturday, November 7.

Hilbert College

The Hawks will open their regular season against Neumann College November 6 at 7 p.m. and November 7 at 2 p.m. at Hamburg Nike Arena.

Niagara University

ACHA D1 is at Liberty November 12 and 13. Leading the scoring are Chloe Minkus with 5 goals and 2 assists. She is followed by Jaidyn Clipperton (2/4), Sophia Gosselin(3/2) and Layla Rushford (3/2).

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ACHA D2 is at Robert Morris November 6 and 7. They will then be home November 8 at 2:30 p.m. against the University of Pittsburgh and at Cornerstone Arena on November 14 and 15 against Brockport. Scoring for NU are the top three Alexandria Franke with 2 goals, 2 assists, Myria Kastelan, a goal and 3 assists and Jaylan Melcher with a goal and 2 assists.

The Niagara University Women’s D2 team will be hosting Military Appreciation Day this Sunday at 2:15 p.m. at Dwyer Arena. There will be Presentation of the Colors, National Anthem and a Scholarship Award prior to the ceremonial puck drop; coordinated by Forward Lili Drzazgowski.

University of Buffalo

They are looking for players to field a team. If you know of any hockey player attending UB please reach out to them. Their links:

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RIT

The Atlantic Hockey America RIT Tigers are 2-10-0 overall following back-to-back losses to #7 Penn State. They travel to Robert Morris for a two-game stand on November 6 and 7.

First year Goalie Oceanne Thiffault made 34 saves for the Tigers in the 1-0 loss on Friday. It was a scoreless first period. Penn State’s Abby Stonehouse scored at 18:48 of the second and Penn State goes up 1-0. The Tigers fired four shots on net in the second, none landed in; and Junior Forward Ireland Stein had one go off the post in the third and Zoe Ziotas fired one wide. Thiffault made 11 saves in the third for RIT. Rochester’s Addie Alvarez fired two shots and blocked three.

In Game two Penn State got the lead late in the first and was a Penn State game from then on with the score ending 6-0 in favor of Penn State.

Penn State outshot RIT 39-14; The Tigers went 0-6 with the extra skater while the Nittany Lions went 2-6. Junior Goalie Brenna McNamara made nine saves in relief.

Nazareth

Nazareth is 1-0-1 overall as they head off to Cortland for a Saturday game.

This past weekend they tied Canton despite recording 45 shots on goal. They trailed heading into the third period 1-0 when Allie Zack got the tying goal late in the third to force overtime. Neither team scored resulting in the 1-1 tie. Goaltender Mia Gonsalves stopped 26 of 27 hsots to help the Golden Flyers earn the tie.

Nazareth came out hard against Potsdam trying to bounce back after Friday’s tie. Amy Laskowski scored two goals and added an assist and Nikki Sharp scored a goal and had an assist giving the Golden Flyers a 3-1 victory. Maggie Jacoby had a career-high three assists and Jessica Bobiles registed her second assist in two games. Nazareth outshot Potsdam 43-14.

St John Fisher

The Cardinals too the lead nine minutes into the game on Friday and stayed ahead beating Neumann 4-0 in both Friday and Saturday’s games. They are 2-0-0 as they open the 2026-27 season.

They got off to a strong start scoring twice in the first period. WNY’er and Freshman Avery Szczesek doubled SJF’s lead with assists from sophomore forward Alexandra Hemingway and junior defender Cordelia Wetmyss. They kept their 2-0 advantage through the second period and then extended their lead early in the third when Caroline Schriefer scored two minutes in. With less than two minutes left in regulation, Schriefer and Hamingway assisted on Baughan’s goal. Szczesek scored her first collegiate goal; Garsin scored her first collegiate assist.

In game two SJF earned another 4-0 victory over Neumann. Cecilia Stewart (Buffalo/Nichols) scored a power-play goal, assisted by Alayna Denofrio and two minutes later St. John Fisher doubled its advantage as Hailey Baughan found the back of the net. The Cardinals extended their lead in the second when Avery Szczesek scored. The Cardinals capped the win in the third period when Baughan scored her second goal of the game.

St John Fisher will host Morrisville on Friday, November 6 at the Rochester Ice Center and then travel to Morrisville on Saturday, Nov. 7 for a second game.

The Plattsburgh State men’s ice hockey team opened its 2026-27 regular season on the road Friday night, earning a 4-1 victory over VTSU-Castleton. The Cardinals have now defeated the Spartans in six consecutive seasons.

Plattsburgh got off to a strong start, striking first at the 7:23 mark of the opening period. Graduate student Joshua Belgrave(Burlington, Ontario) found the back of the net off assists from first-year Charlie Burchfield (Brighton, Mich.) and junior Quinn Tavares (Mississauga, Ontario) to give the Cardinals an early 1-0 advantage.

The Cardinals continued to build their lead early in the second period, scoring twice in a span of 1:21. Senior captain Vladislav Pshenichnikov (Moscow, Russia) extended the lead to 2-0 just 2:05 into the period, with first-year Jules Delepoulle (Amiens, France) picking up the assist. Burchfield followed with a goal of his own at the 3:26 mark, assisted by Tavares and Belgrave, to put Plattsburgh ahead 3-0.

VTSU-Castleton got on the board early in the third period, cutting the deficit to 3-1 at the 55-second mark. The Cardinals maintained their two-goal advantage throughout the remainder of the period before Mike English (Hague, N.Y.) sealed the victory with an unassisted empty-net goal with just 11 seconds remaining, securing the 4-1 final.

The Plattsburgh State men’s ice hockey team continued its 2026-27 campaign on the road Saturday (Oct 31) afternoon, taking on Plymouth State University in a non-conference matchup. The Cardinals battled throughout the contest but ultimately fell to the Panthers, 4-3.

The matchup marked the sixth meeting between the two programs, with the all-time series entering the game tied at 2-2-1. Plattsburgh State earned a 4-0 shutout victory in last season’s meeting, which also came during the second game of the regular season.

The Cardinals struck first late in the opening period, capitalizing on a power-play opportunity at the 18:39 mark. First-year defenseman Jules Delepoulle (Amiens, France) opened the scoring with his first goal of the season, assisted by senior captain Vladislav Pshenichnikov (Moscow, Russia) and junior forward Gabriel Filion (Montreal, Quebec), giving Plattsburgh a 1-0 advantage heading into the first intermission.

Plymouth State responded early in the second period, tying the game at 5:25 as David Matousek found the back of the net off assists from Ronan Walsh and Patrick O’Connell. The Panthers added two more goals to take control of the game, with William Jasmin scoring at 8:13 before Lucas Jones extended the lead to 3-1 at 14:42.

Plattsburgh answered late in the period as Delepoulle recorded his second goal of the afternoon at 17:59. Alessio Nardelli (Laval, Quebec) and Louis Sweenor (Plattsburgh, N.Y.) picked up assists on the play, cutting the deficit to 3-2 heading into the final period.

Plymouth State regained its two-goal advantage early in the third, as Severi Sulonen scored at 4:46 off an assist from O’Connell. The Cardinals continued to push back, with junior forward Tyler Ramm (Westborough, Mass.) finding the back of the net at 12:23 to bring Plattsburgh within one at 4-3. Ramm’s goal was unassisted, but the Cardinals were unable to find the equalizer in the closing minutes as the Panthers held on for the victory.

Plattsburgh finished 1-for-3 on the power play, while Plymouth State went 0-for-3 with the man advantage.

With the loss, Plattsburgh State moves to 1-1 on the season and will return to action on Friday, Nov. 13, opening SUNYAC play at home against Oswego State at the Ronald B. Stafford Ice Arena.

Colgate vs UMASS Friday and Saturday (October 30&31)

HAMILTON – Two short-handed goals in the second period proved to be detrimental to Colgate as they fell 4-3 against UMass Lowell on Friday night at Class of 1965 Arena.

First Period

• 2:45 | Joshua Niedermayer caught a pass from Jake Schneider at the point and fired a wrister into the back of the net to put Colgate ahead early.
• 11:12 | Sean Kilcullen had a point blank look for UMass Lowell but Reid Dyck came up with a massive glove save.
• 14:18 | UMass Lowell took advantage of a power play and tied the game at one apiece.

Second Period

• 5:28 | The River Hawks scored a short-handed goal to tie the game up at two.
• 6:54 | UMass Lowell took a 3-2 lead after a snapshot off a face-off went top right.
• 8:24 | Tobias Öhman forced a giveaway to Jack Brandt who used a quick move between the legs and scored the tying goal.
• 12:55 | The River Hawks responded with their second short-handed goal of the night to regain the one-goal lead.
• 19:59 | Dyck would make two big stops just before the horn sounded for the end of the second frame.

Third Period

• 11:21 | Colgate was unable to take advantage of a power play midway through the third frame.
• 17:16 | Dyck was pulled and the Raiders had an extra attacker for the last three minutes of the game and generated two quality chances but were unable to tie the game up.

HAMILTON – Tobias Öhman won a race to a loose puck and scored his second goal of the night 1:38 into the overtime period to lift Colgate to its first win of the season.Co

Down a goal with two minutes to go, the Raiders pulled Reid Dyck for the extra skater. On an offensive zone faceoff, Colgate dropped the puck to Tyson Doucette and then slid the puck down low to Max Nagel who found Davide Patella in the low slot. Patella fired a one-timer into the back of the net to tie the game at three apiece and send it to overtime.

First Period

• 6:13 | Tobias Öhman got the scoring started on a 2-on-1 with Max Nagel. Nagel slid it across to Öhman who buried it to put Colgate up 1-0.
• 8:04 | Luke Malboeuf dropped a pass to Jake Schneider at the point. Schneider fired a shot that got caught up in traffic and squeaked through to give the Raiders a 2-0 lead in the opening eight minutes.
• 9:06 | After a flurry of chances that left Reid Dyck on his back, the River Hawks scored to make it 2-1.
• 16:16 | A shot from the blue line was tipped in front by Misha Volotovskii of UMass Lowell, tying the game at two apiece.

Second Period

• 0:19 | Colgate went on the power play early in the second period but were unable to capitalize.
• 10:29 | Elias Zimmerman was called for an interference penalty but the Raiders successfully killed the power play for the River Hawks.

Third Period

• 6:51 | The Raiders earned another power play but couldn’t find the back of the net.
• 11:44 | After initially killing the 5-on-3, Colgate suffered on the penalty kill as UMass Lowell took a 3-2 lead.
• 18:44 | Davide Patella blasted a one-timer past Cole Moore and tied the game at three.

Overtime

• 1:38 | Öhman scored the game-winner after gathering a loose puck and firing past Moore underneath his glove.

Notes

• Reid Dyck posted his second consecutive 30+ save game and fourth this season.
• The Raiders picked up their first win over UMass Lowell since 2019.
• Öhman scored Colgate’s first overtime winner since Simon Labelle scored to beat Yale on Nov. 14, 2025.

 Senior forward and captain Ryan Walsh scored Cornell’s first two goals of the season, sophomore forward Caton Ryan broke a 2-2 tie with 9.5 seconds left in the second period and the No. 15 Cornell men’s ice hockey team pulled away for a 5-2 non-conference win over Sacred Heart in its season opener Friday night at Lynah Rink.

Walsh and Ryan each finished with three points. Junior forward Ivan Zadvernyuk and freshman defenseman Ryland Randle scored their first Big Red goals in the third period as Cornell (1-0-0) won its seventh straight home opener. Sacred Heart fell to 3-4-0.

“I really liked the way we went into the third period and kind of closed the door there,” said Casey Jones ’90, the Jay R. Bloom ’77 Head Coach of Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey. “That goal towards the end of the second was huge.”

Cornell controlled the first period and outshot Sacred Heart 14-3. After the visitors took the game’s first two shot attempts, the Big Red had 37 of the next 39, including 33 straight over more than 11 minutes.

Walsh scored the first of his two goals at 9:14 after winning an offensive-zone faceoff. Junior defenseman Michael Fisher‘s shot from the right point caromed off the end boards and senior forward Jake Kraft‘s stick, and Walsh poked the puck past goaltender Nils Wallstrom. He doubled the lead 36 seconds into the second period, backhanding a pass around the corner that bounced back to him in the low slot, then snapping a shot over Wallstrom’s glove. Ryan and senior defenseman George Fegaras assisted on the tally.

“I thought I struggled finding the back of the net last year, so to have a start like that felt good,” said Walsh, who became Cornell’s first player with a multi-goal game in a season opener since Jeff Malott ’20 in 2017-18. He and Ryan are the first Big Red teammates with three-point games in an opener since Chris Abbott and Jon Gleed in 2004-05.

Sacred Heart responded with 15 straight shot attempts between 8:15 and 13:07 of the second and held Cornell without an attempt for nearly six minutes. Jake Bongo scored at 8:50 and Landen Gunderson tied the game at 12:54.

“We got the two-goal lead and tried to do a little bit too much, and then we had to reel it back in,” Jones said. “I thought they did a good job of snapping back in.”

Ryan put Cornell back in front just before the second intermission. Walsh found him from below the goal line, and Ryan one-timed a shot from the middle of the slot with 9.5 seconds left. Kraft picked up his second assist of the night.

“I was filling in for a defenseman and found some soft ice in the middle,” Ryan said. “Walshy again, he’ll find me if I’m there.”

Zadvernyuk, a transfer from Brown, made it 4-2 with a power-play goal 2:27 into the third period, with Ryan and sophomore defenseman Xavier Veilleux credited with assists. It was Cornell’s only conversion in five chances with the man advantage. Sacred Heart did not score on its lone power-play chance.

“We worked on [the power play] a lot during the week, and it was getting better and better pretty much every day we practiced it,” Zadvernyuk said. “So it clicked in the end.”

Two freshmen set the final margin. Randle finished a 2-on-1 from freshman forward Brad Gardiner at 12:03, with sophomore forward Aiden Long adding the second assist. The goal extended Cornell’s streak of a freshman scoring in its season opener to nine seasons, the longest in the NCAA since Wisconsin’s 10-season run from 1997-2008. Randle and Zadvernyuk became the first Cornell pair to score their first Big Red goals in a season opener since Paul Varteressian ’05 and Greg Hornby ’04, as a freshman and a sophomore, respectively, against Alabama-Huntsville on Nov. 2, 2001.

Cornell won 51 of 74 faceoffs, its most faceoff wins since going 57-for-87 in a 3-2 loss to RPI on Feb. 22, 2019. Walsh went 20-for-28, his third career game with at least 20 faceoff wins. Gardiner went 13-for-17 in his collegiate debut, becoming the first Cornell player since at least 2004-05 to win 10 or more faceoffs in his first career game.

“He doesn’t feel like a freshman,” Jones said of Gardiner. “He’s got a lot of maturity to his game.”

Sophomore goaltender Mathis Rousseau made 17 saves in his Big Red debut. Cornell outshot Sacred Heart 36-19, and Wallstrom made 31 saves in his season debut for the Pioneers.

ITHACA, N.Y. — Sacred Heart scored twice in a 2:59 span of the third period, and freshman goaltender Jack Spicer made 42 saves as the Pioneers rallied past Cornell for a 3-2 win Saturday night at Lynah Rink.

The Big Red fell to 1-1-0 with the loss after winning Friday’s opener, while Sacred Heart improved to 4-4-0.

Spicer stopped the final 20 shots he faced for his first collegiate win as the Big Red outshot the Pioneers 44-22. He became the first opponent to make 40 saves against Cornell since his teammate Ajeet Gundarah on Jan. 10, 2025, at Sacred Heart.

Diego Buttazzoni gave Sacred Heart a 1-0 lead 5:18 into the game. He took a long stretch pass from Gavin Bryant in the Pioneers’ defensive zone and beat sophomore goaltender Mathis Rousseau to his blocker side on a breakaway.

After killing off a penalty midway through the period, Cornell pulled even at 16:21 when sophomore forward Gio DiGiulian pounced on a rebound after Spicer stopped a shot from the blue line by freshman defenseman Ryland Randle. Sophomore Aiden Long added the secondary assist.

With his assist, Randle became the 10th Big Red freshman defenseman to open a season with points in multiple games, and the first since Ben Robertson began 2023-24 with a seven-game point streak.

Cornell took its first lead of the night at 6:42 of the second. Sophomore forward Reegan Hiscock found senior forward Tyler Catalano in the low slot, and Catalano wristed a shot over Spicer’s glove into the near-side top corner. Freshman forward Coco Armstrong picked up the secondary assist, his first collegiate point in his debut.

The Big Red’s fourth line drew praise from Casey Jones ’90, the Jay R. Bloom ’77 Head Coach of Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey. Catalano centered Hiscock, while freshmen Charlie Arend and Armstrong alternated shifts on the other wing.

“I thought they were physical,” Jones said. “I thought they were effective. They got a goal.”

Despite Cornell outshooting Sacred Heart 17-9 in the second, Spicer kept the margin at one. Thirteen of his 16 saves in the period came with the Big Red on the power play, including seven during Cornell’s first man advantage.

In the third period, Sacred Heart tied it at 9:34 following Landon Hanson’s backhanded centering pass from below the goal line to Aiden VanRooyan, who beat Rousseau low to his blocker side from the left hash of the right circle. Spicer then robbed Hiscock with a cross-crease save at 10:25.

The Pioneers went ahead at 12:33 as a Cornell clearing attempt from behind its net deflected off Hanson to freshman Ethan Semeniuk at the left post. Semeniuk lofted the puck over Rousseau’s left shoulder for his first collegiate goal. Hanson finished with two assists, the only multi-point effort of the night.

“We turned a lot of pucks over while we were exiting,” Jones said. “That was our biggest problem.”

Jones added that his team “didn’t have the same energy and same intensity and attention to detail we had last night.”

The Big Red doubled the Pioneers in third-period attempts (26-13) and led 14-5 in shots on goal. Cornell pulled Rousseau for a 6-on-4 advantage with 2:02 left but was unable to net the equalizer.

Cornell finished 0-for-4 on the power play, with 16 of its 44 shots on goal coming on the man advantage. The Big Red went 2-for-2 on the penalty kill and allowed two shots. Rousseau finished with 19 saves.

Senior forward and captain Ryan Walsh went 26-for-36 on faceoffs, winning the game’s final six draws and the last nine he took. His 26 wins are the most by a Division I player in regulation since Denver’s Cole Guttman went 29-for-34 against Minnesota Duluth on Feb. 12, 2022.

“Learning how to close two games on the weekend is going to be crucial down the stretch,” Catalano said. “When we get into ECAC league play, everyone shows up, especially at Lynah. This is everyone’s Super Bowl, so it’s coming ready to play every night.”

The Big Red opens ECAC Hockey play at Lynah Rink next weekend, hosting No. 10 Quinnipiac (5-2-0) on Friday, Nov. 6, and Princeton (2-0-0) on Saturday, Nov. 7. Both games are scheduled for 7 p.m. starts. Tickets for the conference-opening weekend are available at bigredtix.com.

By Janet Schultz, NYHOL

A look at what’s coming in Western New York’s Collegiate Women’s Ice Hockey for this week.

Buffalo State

Coming off an exhibition win over Hilbert College, the Bengals will open against Hiram College on Friday, November 6 at 7 pm. and again on Saturday at 3 p.m. Keep an eye on Freshman Teagan Willats from the WNY Girls Varsity Ice Hockey Federation after she had a pair of goals and an assist Wednesday evening.

RIT

RIT is off to a rough start with a 2-8-0 overall record. Their wins came at the hands of Delaware with 4-1 and 3-2 victories. Zoe Ziotas leads the scoring with 7 goals and 2 assists. Rochester’s Addie Alvarez has two goals and two assists this season. Coming on the scene from Rochester is Eryka DeRocha who placed for the Rochester Jr. Americans.

Hilbert College

Coming off a loss to Buffalo State, Hilbert will take to the ice on November 6 (7 p.m.) against Neumann and again on the 7th (2 pm.). Neumann has Adriana O’Heron from the Rochester Edge in her Senior year.

Nazareth

Nazareth is on the road for three games beginning October 30 at Canton; October 31 at Potsdam and November 7 at Cortland before coming home on November 13 at 3 p.m. against Manhattanville. Local Cassidy Crogan of Ransomville is on the roster for Nazareth. She played at Nichols School in Buffalo where she garnered the MVP title for the Prep A team.

St. John Fisher

Coming into their second season they face Neumann College October 30 at 4 p.m. and October 31 at noon on home ice. St. John Fisher’s roster has several WNY players including from the WNYGVIH Federation Addison Cherry of Monsignor Martin and Avery Szczesek from St. Mary’s of Lancaster. Others include Cecelia Stewart of Nichols School; Nicole Doeringer, Batavia; Lauren Garsin, Pittsford and Brynn bacak, Wiliamsville, Nichols School.

The Niagara University ACHA teams are not playing until November with D1 at Liberty on November 12 and 13 and DII at Ohio.

BY RANDY SCHULTZ; Photos by Janet Schultz, NYHOL

Freshman Teagan Willets scored two goals and added an assist in leading the Buffalo State University Bengals over the Hilbert Hawks, 5-1. It was a pre-season exhibition women’s college hockey game Wednesday night at the Buffalo State Ice Arena.

It only took :10 into the first period before Buffalo State took a 1-0 lead on a goal by Willets. The lone assist on the goal went to Kaydence Kemp.

The Bengals continued putting on the pressure and at the 2:51 mark of the initial period to a 2-0 lead over the Hawks on a goal by Keira Dach. Assists on that goal went to Aubrey Bykari and Arissa Vettraino.

With less than two minutes remaining in the opening period Buffalo State increased their lead to 3-0 on an unassisted goal by Sydney Radecki.

Hilbert finally got on the board when Kelsey Fuller scored to cut the Buff St. lead to 3-1.

But less than three minutes later the Bengals upped their lead again by three, 4-1, when Willets scored her second goal of the night. The period ended with Buff St. up by three.

Kaydence Kemp closed out the scoring in the game when she scored for the Bengals to put them up 5-1 at 18:27 of the third period. Dakota Carlson and Willats got the assists on the final goal of the contest.

GAME NOTES – Willats is from Grand Island…Fuller is from Rome, NY.