East Hartford, Conn. – The Trinity College Bantams defeated the Wesleyan University Cardinals, 3-1 in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) men's ice hockey action this evening in a game that was played outdoors at Rentschler Field.  The Bantams improve to 11-8-3 overall and 9-7-1 in the NESCAC with their sixth consecutive victory, while the Cardinals fall to 8-10-3 overall and 7-9-1 in the league. 

Tonight's contest, a doubleheader that began with the Trinity and Wesleyan women playing at 4 p.m., was part of Harvest-Properties.com Whalers Hockey Fest 2011, a historic celebration of Connecticut hockey that features an AHL game between the Connecticut Whale and the Providence Bruins,  five premier college games, at least 15 elite high school, junior and prep school games and a “Whale Town”, featuring exhibitors, games, the Whalers Mobile Hall of Fame and a Hartford Whalers alumni vs. Boston Bruins alumni classic.  The Trinity women's team defeated Wesleyan, 5-1, in the first game of the doubleheader at Rentschler, 5-1.

Trinity opened the scoring when senior Egor Petrov (Novokuznetsk, Russia) scored 10:15 into the opening period, but Wesleyan junior forward Geoff Mucha (West Chester, Pa.) wristed in a shot from the left wing over the left shoulder of Trinity senior goaltender Wesley Vesprini (Lexington, Mass.) with 1:28 left in the first.  After a scoreless second period that saw Trinity outshoot Wesleyan, 12-to-7, Bantam junior forward Sean McCarthy (Duxbury, Mass.) lit the lamp 1:31 into the third frame from classmate Michael DeMayo (Seaford, N.Y.) with the gamewinner.

Trinity senior forward Matt Quigley (Pittsburgh, Pa.) added an insurance marker at the 6:54 mark of the third.  Vesprini finished with 24 saves and Wesleyan sophomore backstop Matt Hadge (Canton, Mass.) made 26 saves.  Wesleyan was 0-for-5 on power plays and Trinity was 0-for-2.

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