HARRISVILLE, R.I. – First-year forward Brett Englebright (Pekin, Ill.) scored a power-play tally with 21.4 seconds remaining in regulation to lift the Nichols College men's hockey team to a 3-2 ECAC Northeast victory over No. 15 Curry Saturday evening at June Rockwell Levy Rink. The Bison, winners of four straight games, improve to 18-2-0 and remain undefeated in ECAC Northeast action at 12-0-0. The Colonels dip to 13-4-2 overall and suffer their first loss in conference play with a 9-1-1 record.

A Curry penalty at 19:17 afforded the Bison their second power play of the period and an offensive zone faceoff. Senior defenseman Jeff Bieber (Littleton, Colo.) fired from the blueline, but his shot got stopped out in front. Sophomore forward Will Munson (Corona, Calif.) shifted the puck across the netfront to Englebright,at the left post who flipped the puck into the upper left corner past Curry netminder Steven Jakiel.

After a scoreless first period, Curry took a two-goal lead before Nichols tied it up headed into the second intermission. Ross Enmark put the Colonels on the board with a power-play goal at 6:37, with assists from Michael Guzzo and Jonathan Miller.

Freshman forward John Williams put Curry ahead by two at 14:17 with a breakaway goal, but Nichols responded 18 seconds later with a Matt Sayer (Lowell, Mass.) score.

Senior defenseman Cole Ruwe (Pekin, Ill.) kept the puck in the zone, tipping it over to sophomore forward JoJo Bojanowski (Washington Township, Mich.), who spun around in the left circle, throwing a centering pass toward the net where Sayer redirected it past Jakiel at the right post.

With 1:20 left in the period, Bieber picked the upper right corner with a blast from the right point, off assists from first-year forward Zach Hendrickson (Farmingdale, N.Y.) and classmate Andrew Ella (Schomberg, Ont.).

Nichols first-year netminder Jacob Rinn (Warwick, R.I.) made 25 saves to improve to 4-0-0 on the season. Jakiel made 23 saves and dips to 8-2-2 on the year.

Nichols returns to action in an 8:30 p.m. home game against Framingham State on Saturday February 7. Curry hosts Plymouth State Tuesday at 7:35 p.m.

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