The Middlebury men's hockey team (4-12-3, 3-11-2) scored three goals in the opening 8:25 of the third period on Tuesday evening, turning a tie game into a 5-3 NESCAC victory at Connecticut College (5-12-3, 4-10-2). Middlebury returns to action on Friday when it travels to Amherst for a 7:00 p.m. puck drop.

The Camels scored just 1:30 into the opening stanza when Will Winship received a centering pass just outside the crease, and one-timed a wrister over the shoulder of Panther goalie Jake Horoho. Middlebury knotted the score at 1-1 with 14:01 elapsed in the period. Nolan Moore ripped a shot from inside the blue line that Camel netminder Cam Fernandez saved, but Antoine Belisle tipped in the rebound into the Camel goal. Connecticut College took a 2-1 edge on the power play when Jake Vaughan tapped in a loose puck from the doorstep at 16:41.

The hosts looked for a two-goal lead with 3:40 gone in the second period, but Horoho denied a shot between the circles by Sean Detloff. Middlebury knotted the contest 2-2 at the 5:27 mark when an initial shot by Jack Clarner on the rush was saved by Fernandez, before Cole Joslin swatted in the loose puck. The Panthers killed off a Camel power-play opportunity late in the stanza, highlighted by three saves from Horoho to keep the score tied at 2-2.

Middlebury scored twice in the opening 1:59 of the third period. The first came when Bret Pastor tapped in a rolling puck just 17 seconds in with Fernandez down on the ice, before Andrew Malatesta redirected a centering pass on an odd-man rush for a 4-2 advantage. Belisle tallied his second goal of the game at 9:25, ripping a wrister sliding from right to left for a 5-2 Panther advantage. With a delayed penalty on the Panthers, Connecticut College's Paul Capozzi skated into the zone, lifting an attempt past Horoho with 1:37 left. Middlebury killed off the ensuing penalty to secure the 5-3 victory.

Horoho finished with 33 saves in the crease for the Panthers, including 16 in the first period. Fernandez had 21 stops in 48:25 of action for the Camels, while Sean Dynan played the final 11:35 with a pair of stops.