BOSTON – Army West Point and Holy Cross both posted 2-0 home shutouts in conference play Friday night as eight Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) men’s teams were in action.

SCOREBOARD
Holy Cross 2, Bentley 0
Air Force 3, Robert Morris 2
Army West Point 2, RIT 0
Clarkson 2, Niagara 2 OT
Cornell 5, Sacred Heart 2
Recaps available below

HOLY CROSS 2, BENTLEY 0
Box Score 
Worcester, Mass. – Holy Cross got a 32-save performance from Danick Leroux (Candiac, Que.) to hand Bentley its first conference loss of the season, 2-0 at the Hart Center Rink Friday night.

David Hymovitch (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Owen Kim (North Vancouver, B.C.) provided the offense, scoring in the first and second periods, respectively. Kim scored his AHA-leading sixth goal of the season, a new career high, and extended his point streak to eight games.

Bentley outshot the Crusaders 32-22 in the game and 15-2 in the third period but could not beat Leroux, who posted his first shutout of the season (third career).
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Bentley	0-0-0–0	32	1/2	0/3	3-4-0 (2-1-0)
Holy Cross	1-1-0–2	22	3/6	0/1	4-5-0 (2-3-0)

AIR FORCE 3, ROBERT MORRIS 2
Box Score | Game Highlights
Moon Township, Pa. – Air Force junior Sam Stitz (Perry Hall, Md.) answered a Robert Morris rally with the eventual game-winner, lifting the Falcons to a win in their first AHA conference game of the season Friday night.

Air Force built a 2-0 lead on second-period goals from Brendan Gibbons (Wakefield, R.I.) and Zander Lipsett (Lexington, Ky.), with Lipsett’s being the first of his collegiate career.

Robert Morris stormed back to tie the score 10:29 into the third period, but Stitz’s goal – just under three minutes after Ryan MacPherson (Windsor, Ont.) had tied it – provided the difference.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Air Force	0-2-1–3	28	6/12	0/2	3-4-0 (1-0-0)
Robert Morris	0-0-2–2	23	3/6	0/5	1-7-0 (0-3-0)

ARMY WEST POINT 2, RIT 0
Box Score | Game Highlights
West Point, N.Y. – Goaltender JJ Cataldo (Stuart, Fla.) recorded his seventh career shutout, the most among active AHA goaltenders, as Army West Point improved to 3-0-0 in conference play and won its fourth straight game, 2-0 against RIT Friday at Tate Rink.

Nik Hong (Minneapolis, Minn.) scored the game’s first goal 1:21 into the second period, and Billy Batten (Phoenixville, Pa.) iced it in the third, finishing after a beautiful move out of the corner.

The Black Knights outshot RIT in each period and 37-23 for the game.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
RIT	0-0-0–0	23	2/4	0/0	2-5-1 (1-2-0)
Army West Point	0-1-1–5	37	0/0	0/2	4-1-0 (3-0-0)

CLARKSON 2, NIAGARA 2 OT
Box Score | Game Highlights
Potsdam, N.Y. – Niagara improved to 3-1-1 in its last five games, all outside of conference play, with a 2-2 tie on the road at Clarkson. The Golden Knights won a shootout, but the game goes down as a tie.

Spencer Young (Elmira, Ont.) started the scoring with his first of the season for the Purple Eagles early in the second period. Clarkson responded but Maxim Muranov (Moskva, Russia) got the lead back in the third, with an assist from Young. Clarkson responded again and neither team could score in the final three minutes or overtime.

Tomas Anderson (Stillwater, Minn.) made 30 saves in net and is unbeaten in his last three starts (2-0-1). 
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Niagara	0-1-1-0–2	22	6/12	0/2	4-4-1 (1-1-0)
Clarkson	0-1-1-0–2	32	3/6	0/5	3-3-1 (0-0-0)

#15/T-13 CORNELL 5, SACRED HEART 2
Box Score | Game Highlights
Ithaca, N.Y. – Cornell got the first two goals of the game from Ryan Walsh and although Sacred Heart rallied to tie the score, the Big Red emerged victorious in their first game of the season, 5-2.

Jake Bongo (Ridgefield, Conn.) and Landen Gunderson (Plymouth, Minn.) provided the Pioneer goals in a 4:04 span of the second period. Gunderson is tied for the team lead with four goals in his first season with Sacred Heart.

Nils Wallstrom (Skelleftea, Sweden) made 31 saves in his first career start for the Pioneers.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Sacred Heart	0-2-0–2	19	5/10	0/1	3-4-0 (1-1-0)
Cornell	1-2-2–5	36	1/2	1/5	1-0-0 (0-0-0)

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Saturday, October 31
Niagara at Clarkson, 4 p.m. ET
RIT at Army West Point, 4 p.m. ET
Holy Cross at Bentley, 6 p.m. ET
Sacred Heart at Cornell, 7 p.m. ET
Air Force at Robert Morris, 7 p.m. ET

Friday, November 6
RIT at Bentley, 7 p.m. ET
Holy Cross at Merrimack, 7 p.m. ET
Canisius at Sacred Heart, 7 p.m. ET
Robert Morris at Long Island, 7:30 p.m. ET
Army West Point at Air Force, 7:05 p.m. MT

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