BOSTON – Army West Point’s 4-3 overtime road win at #8/7 Quinnipiac highlighted Friday’s Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) men’s action, which also included a pair of conference games.

SCOREBOARD
Army West Point 4, Quinnipiac 3 OT
Holy Cross 3, Sacred Heart 1
Bentley 5, Robert Morris 0
RPI 4, RIT 1
Union 4, Niagara 1
Penn State 5, Canisius 1
Colorado College 6, Air Force 2
Recaps available below

ARMY WEST POINT 4, #8/7 QUINNIPIAC 3 OT
Box Score 
Hamden, Conn. – Brent Keefer (Colorado Springs, Colo.) scored his second goal of the game with 0:17 remaining in overtime, lifting Army West Point to its third straight victory, 4-3 at Quinnipiac.

The back-and-forth game saw Keefer score first, but Quinnipiac had a pair of its own before the first period closed. Army responded with two in the second, taking a lead into the third period, but the Bobcats evened the score at 8:21 of the third to set the stage for Keefer’s OT winner.

JJ Cataldo (Stuart, Fla.) made 36 saves to earn the upset win.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Army West Point	1-2-0-1–4	23	2/4	1/4	3-1-0 (2-0-0)
Quinnipiac	2-0-1-0–3	39	4/8	0/1	4-2-0 (0-0-0)

HOLY CROSS 3, SACRED HEART 1
Box Score 
Worcester, Mass. – Holy Cross scored three unanswered goals to erase a 1-0 Sacred Heart lead and earn the Crusaders’ first AHA win of the season, 3-1 Friday night at the Hart Center Rink.

Noah Roberts (Boca Raton, Fla.) scored first for Sacred Heart but Matt Kursonis (West Boylston, Mass.) answered before the first period ended, extending his point streak to seven games.

Ty Gagno (Langley, B.C.) finished a pretty passing play for the eventual game-winning goal in the second period, while Owen Kim (North Vancouver, B.C.) added an empty netter. Danick Leroux (Candiac, Que.) stopped 21 shots for the win in goal.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Sacred Heart	1-0-0–1	22	4/8	0/2	2-3-0 (0-1-0)
Holy Cross	1-1-1–3	13	3/6	0/3	3-4-0 (1-2-0)

BENTLEY 5, ROBERT MORRIS 0
Box Score | Game Highlights
Waltham, Mass. – Sophomore Jan Gaspar (Prague, Czech Republic) scored his first two collegiate goals – the first two of the game – and classmate Lukas Swedin (Stockholm, Sweden) posted his second shutout of the season as Bentley opened its conference schedule with a 5-0 win over Robert Morris Friday night.

Gaspar’s goals made it 2-0 eight minutes into the second period, and Kolby Amici (Orchard Park, N.Y.) and Garrett Horsager (Rosemount, Minn.) added tallies to make it 4-0 after two. Oskar Bakkevig (Oslo, Norway) scored the Falcons’ fifth goal, with all coming at even strength.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Robert Morris	0-0-0–0	30	2/4	0/1	1-5-0 (0-1-0)
Bentley	1-3-1–5	30	1/2	0/2	2-3-0 (1-0-0)

UNION 4, NIAGARA 1
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Niagara University, N.Y. – Union scored three power-play goals on what had been the AHA’s best penalty kill, leading the Garnet Chargers to a 4-1 win at Niagara Friday night.

Union only beat Charles-Edward Gravel (Levis, Que.) twice on 42 shots, but added two in the empty net as the Purple Eagles pushed for the equalizer. Sophomore Marshall Finnie (Lethbridge, Alta.) scored the Niagara goal, his first of the season.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Union	0-1-3–4	44	7/14	3/6	3-1-0 (0-0-0)
Niagara	0-0-1–1	31	10/28	1/4	3-4-0 (1-1-0)

PENN STATE 5, CANISIUS 1
Box Score 
University Park, Pa. – Penn State got two goals each from Dane Dowiak and Andrew Kuzma to lift the Nittany Lions to their first win of the season, 5-1, in the series opener against Canisius on Friday.

Freshman Ben Brunelle (Troise-Rivieres, Que.) scored his first career goal for Canisius to tie the score 1:18 into the second period, but Penn State responded with a pair that period to take a 3-1 lead. 

The Nittany Lions added an empty-net goal and a 4-on-4 goal in the third.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Canisius	0-1-0–1	24	3/6	0/3	3-3-1 (0-0-0)
Penn State	1-2-2–5	44	4/8	1/2	1-4-0 (0-0-0)

RPI 4, RIT 1
Box Score 
Rochester, N.Y. – RPI scored four straight goals to overcome an early RIT lead and improve to 4-1-0 on the season with a 4-1 win at Gene Polisseni Center.

Matthew Wilde (Mississauga, Ont.) scored his first of the season for the Tigers at 7:35 of the first for the early lead.

The Engineers responded in the first minute of the second, then added three in the third for the 4-1 final.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
RPI	0-1-3–4	27	5/10	0/4	4-1-0 (0-0-0)
RIT	1-0-0–1	32	5/10	0/4	1-4-1 (1-1-0)

#12/11 COLORADO COLLEGE 6, AIR FORCE 2
Box Score | Game Highlights
Colorado Springs, Colo. – Colorado College scored twice in each period and built a 4-0 lead to earn a commanding 6-2 win in the first game of a home-and-home series with cross-town rival Air Force Friday night.

Six Tigers scored and five had multiple-point games. Air Force’s Harper Searles (Ham Lake, Minn.) scored on the power play early in the third period and Jake Peterson (Rosemount, Minn.) added a goal late in the third, but it was not enough to overcome the #12/11 Tigers.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Air Force	0-0-2–2	25	3/6	1/7	2-3-0 (0-0-0)
Colorado College	2-2-2–6	33	8/16	1/2	3-2-0 (0-0-0)

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Saturday, October 24
Holy Cross at Sacred Heart, 5 p.m. ET
Canisius at Penn State, 5 p.m. ET
Union at Niagara, 6 p.m. ET
Robert Morris at Bentley, 6 p.m. ET
U.S. NTDP at Army West Point, 7 p.m. ET (Exhibition)
RPI at RIT, 7:05 p.m. ET
#12/11 Colorado College at Air Force, 7:05 p.m. MT

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