Second-period goals by senior center Robby Newton and sophomore right wing Max Nagel erased a 2-1 deficit and gave Colgate a 3-2 hockey victory over the University of Maine at the Alfond Arena on Friday night.
Both teams are now 2-2-1 and will conclude their series Saturday at 7 p.m.
The loss snapped UMaine’s eight-game unbeaten streak at Alfond Arena (6-0-2).
UMaine had a number of great chances to tie it after the Black Bears pulled goalie Albin Boija in favor of the extra attacker but couldn’t get the equalizer.
Max Scott had a great chance late, but Colgate goalie Reid Dyck got a piece of the puck with his pad to save the win for Colgate.
Dyck made 25 saves for Colgate while Boija finished with 12 stops.
Michael Neumeier opened the scoring for Colgate in the first period before UMaine’s Oskare Komarov and Justin Poirier answered for UMaine.
Newton scored his first goal of the season when UMaine freshman Miguel Marques made an ill-advised pass to him in the center of the ice.
Newton was alone in the high slot and took a few strides before beating Boija with a low wrist shot to the glove side.
Bagel scored his third of the campaign on the power play. The teams had skated four-on-four and Colgate had just gone on the man-advantage when Nagel took a pass from Michael Neumeier and skated down the right wing side on a two-on-one.
Nagel elected to shoot from the right faceoff circle and his wrister cleanly beat Boija over his glove hand.
Sophomore defenseman Neumeier opened the scoring just 3:05 into the game with his first goal of the season.
Sophomore center Komarov notched his second of the season at the 9:43 mark and freshman left wing Poirier gave UMaine the lead 2:59 later. It was his fourth.
Neumeier received a pass from Isaiah Norlin at the left point and his screened wrist shot deflected past Boija off a Black Bear player.
Komarov tied it off a two-on-one with Thomas Pichette.
Seconds after Boija made a good save off a re-direction by Tyson Doucette, Brandon Holt fed the puck up to Pichette, who carried it into the Colgate zone down the left wing side before sliding the puck over to Komarov.
Komarov beat Dyck with a wrist shot into the short side corner.
Poirier scored off a rebound.
Max Scott slid a puck to Holt, whose one-timer from the middle of the slot was kicked out to the right by Dyck. It landed on the stick of Poirier who fired the rebound into the far corner.