WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — The Rivier men’s hockey team settled for a 3-3 tie with Western New England Friday afternoon in overtime.

Meanehile, the Raider women skaters experienced the same fate in a 1-1 deadlock at Buffalo State.

In the men’s game, With the score tied at 2 after two periods, the third period would start again with the Golden Bears taking the lead at 3-2 on a Demitrios Stefanou goal. Rivier would respond with just under two minutes remaining to knot it up at three-all on a Jon Tavella (E. Longmeadow, MA) score. Both third period goals came on a powerplay.

After a scoreless first period, the Golden Bears would get on the board first on a powerplay goal from Kyle Knight. After that, both teams would go back and forth in scoring. Milan Breczko (Klasterec, CZR) would tie things up at 1-1 seven minutes later.

At the 15:20 mark into the second period, Nolan Zweep from WNE would put another puck past Rivier’s tender to go up one. However, less than a minute later, Breczko would net his second goal of the game for a team high ninth on the season.

Now 4-8-2, the Raiders will be back on the ice at Bowdoin this Tuesday for a 3 p.m. game.

RAIDER WOMEN EARN TIE

Buffalo was able to break the scoreless tie in the second period, 4:26 in on a goal from Angelina Cruzal.

The Bengals were unable to hold the lead for long as the Raiders evened the score at one all just one minute later. Angeline Rasby (Rapid City, SD) netted the equalizer for Riv.

Raider goaltender Madelyn Morgan (Riverside, CA) racked up 42 saves in net to preserve the tie.

The two teams are back at it today at 3 p.m. in Buffalo, N.Y.