Hartford, Conn. – In a battle of top-10 teams, the visiting UMass Boston men's ice hockey team topped Trinity College, 5-3, on Sunday afternoon in non-conference action at Williams Rink in the Koeppel Community Sports Center. With the loss, the No. 8 Bantams move to 4-1-1 on the year, while the No. 10 Beacons won their eighth straight to improve to 8-0-0.

Trailing by two goals midway through the second period, UMass Boston netted three unanswered tallies to take the lead and steal the momentum away from the host Bantams. With the score tied at three, Beacons junior forward Mike Miller fired a shot from the point that beat Trinity netminder Nathaniel Heilbron (W. Vancouver, British Columbia) for the eventual game winner. Miller's tally came just over a minute after senior Stephen Buco's game-tying goal. In the second period, UMB erased a two-goal deficit with a trio of markers in a five-minute stretch.

At the end of the second period, Trinity had a power play that produced several scoring chances. With the extra skater, the Bantams peppered Beacons goaltender Zach Andrews with shots and the junior stood his ground to give UMB a 4-3 edge heading into the final stanza.

In the third period, Trinity recorded 17 shots on goal, but Andrews turned each and every shot aside. With under a minute remaining in regulation, Trinity pulled Heilbron and Buco put the exclamation point on the victory with an empty-net goal.

Trinity opened the scoring just over three minutes into play as sophomore forward Sean Orlando (Ivyland, Pa.) scored the first of his two markers on the day. Later in the first period, UMB senior forward Nathan Milam knotted the game at one with a short-handed tally. Midway through the first, Orlando gave the Bantams a 2-1 advantage with a power-play goal as linemates Jackson Brewer (Newton, Mass.) and Michael Hawkrigg (Toronto, Ontario) each registered their second assists of the game.

Trinity senior Liam McKillop (New York, N.Y.) gave the Bantams a 3-1 lead in the second period with his second goal of the season. After McKillop's marker, Milam pulled the Beacons within one with a goal before Miller and Buco found the back of the net.

Heilbron made 27 saves in a losing effort for the Bantams. On the opposite end, Andrews stopped 34 shots to earn his sixth victory of the season for UMass Boston.

Trinity held a 37-32 advantage in shots and the Bantams went 2-for-6 on the power play, while the Beacons converted one of their two power-play opportunities.

Trinity returns to action next weekend, Dec. 5-6, with a pair of road non-league contests at Utica and Hobart.