MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - The visiting Trinity College Bantams skated ton a 2-2 tie against the Middlebury College Panthers in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) men's ice hockey action this evening at Kenyon Arena.  Trinity moves to 9-7-1 overall and 7-5-1 in the NESCAC, while the Panthers are now 2-10-3 overall and 1-9-2 in the league.  The Bantams will visit NESCAC rival Williams tomorrow at 3 p.m.  Junior forward Riley Prattson () forced the overtime with the second Trinity goal early in the third period.

Middlebury opened the scoring with 13:08 elapsed in the first period during a power play. Jin Lee sent a pass from the right point that Andrej Hromic one-timed inside the left pipe to make it 1-0. Trinity had a pair of scoring chances with under five minutes to go. Trinity first-year forward Alexander Mozian (Old Greenwich, Conn.) had an attempt from point blank range and sophomore forward Kyle Tomaso (Newport, R.I.) had a wrap-around chance, but Panther netminder Jake Horoho thwarted both opportunities. 
 
The Bantams knotted the contest at the 8:34 mark of the middle stanza when sophomore defenseman Ned Blanchard (West Hartford, Conn.) fed the puck to classmate Devan Tongue after a give-and-go to make it 1-1. With 14:36 elapsed, Lee had an attempt in the slot that Trinity sophomore goalie J.P. Mella (Stamford, Conn.) swatted away with his stick. Middlebury took a 2-1 edge with a power-play goal at the 16:17 mark. Mack Bentley sent a pass from the red line toward the slot that trickled through several players. Paddy Bogart was on the other end, sending his slap shot from the high slot into the goal for his second tally of the year.
 
Out of the break, Middlebury had a great chance to extend the advantage just 1:34 in, but Bogart's power-play attempt from the slot was denied with a blocker save from Mella. The Bantams knotted the contest 2-2 with 4:07 expired in the third frame when Prattson stole the puck in the right pocket, skated to the right point and slipped the puck inside the left pipe. Middlebury's Hromic had back-to-back shots in the final seconds of regulation, but one went just wide and the other was denied by Mella to force the contest into overtime. 
 
The extra session was busy for both teams, with each having a pair of quality chances to win. During the first minute, Trinity had back-to-back breakaway attempts from sophomore forward Gerard Maretta (Brick, N.J.) and Prattson, but Horoho denied the first with a sprawling save and the second with his glove. Middlebury's Lee faked a defender and wristed a quick shot on goal during the second minute that Mella turned away. The Bantams skated four-on-three for the final 14.5 seconds of the game, but were unable to score.  Horoho made 29 stops in goal for Middlebury, while Mella saved 25 for Trinity.