BRUNSWICK — John McGinnis scored two goals and set up the winner in the third period as Bowdoin topped Colby 5-3 in a New England Small College Athletic Conference men’s hockey game Friday night at Watson Arena.

McGinnis scored twice in the second period as the Polar Bears (2-0-1) got three straight goals after falling behind 2-0 in the first period.

Colby’s Michael Rudolf made it 3-3 at 2:46 of the third period. But McGinnis assisted Matthew Lison on a power-play goal at 4:30, and Lison set up Connor Quinn for another power-play goal with 8:39 left.

Colin Reilly scored 59 seconds into the first period for Colby (0-2-1), and Nate Morgan made it 2-0 at 8:36.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND 8, SOUTHERN MAINE 0: Trevor Fleurent had two goals and an assist as the Nor’easters (3-3, 2-3 ECAC East) handled the Huskies (1-5, 0-5) at Biddeford.

Fleurent assisted Cassidy April on the only goal of the first period. Fleurent scored with 3:32 left in the second period for a 4-0 lead and got the next goal on a power play 1:18 in the third.

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Chris Harlow, David Goff, Zeth Zielinski, Blaise Healy and Ben Pearl also scored.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

SOUTHERN MAINE 3, UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND 2: Katie Couture scored 47 seconds into overtime to give the Huskies (2-3, 2-3 ECAC East) a win over the Nor’easters (2-4, 2-3) in Gorham.

Couture pushed in the rebound of a shot by Lynn Kozlowski, who scored on the rebound of a Couture shot in the game’s opening minute.

Couture also scored in the second period.

Marissa Clifford-Biederman and Shannon Smith scored 47 seconds apart midway through the third period for the Nor’easters.

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BOWDOIN 6, COLBY 1: Miranda Bell scored three goals, Julie Dachille had two and the Polar Bears (1-0) scored four goals in the third period against the Mules (0-3) at Waterville.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

CENTRAL MICHIGAN 76, MAINE 48: John Simons scored 17 points and the Chippewas (3-0) closed the first half with a 33-12 run to open a 23-point lead against the Black Bears (0-3) at Mount Pleasant, Mich.

Marko Pirovic led Maine with 11 points, followed by Shawn Lawton with nine.

COLBY 96, DANIEL WEBSTER 66: Chris Hudnut had 24 points and 15 rebounds to lead the Mules (2-1) over the Eagles (2-1) in the Colby Classic in Waterville.

Luke Westman added 16 points and Shane Rogers finished with 13.


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