Box Score MILTON, Mass.—The ninth-ranked Hobart College hockey team defeated Curry College 5-3 this afternoon, wrapping up the Statesmen’s non-league schedule, and marking the second straight year the team has gone undefeated in non-league play. Hobart improved to 12-2-0 overall, while the Colonels dropped to 7-7-1 on the season.

Sophomore Bobby Cahill (Farmington Hills, Mich.) led the Statesmen with two goals, including one unassisted, while junior Keith Longo (Hopedale, Mass.) notched another superb performance between the pipes. He picked up 39 saves for his eighth win of the year.

Junior Jason Merritt (Chapel Hill, N.C.) netted his first goal of the season to put Hobart on the board, just 3 minutes, 17 seconds into the contest. He was assisted by senior Shawn Houde (Manchester, N.H.) and sophomore Nick DeCroo (Sarver, Pa.).

Curry’s Jason Yuel evened things up at 1-1 with 24 seconds remaining in the first period, and the teams took the tie into the break.

Yuel scored again at 2:13 in the second stanza to give the Colonels a 2-1 lead. The goal came on a rare power play opportunity, as the two teams combined for just five penalties in the game.

Cahill responded at the 4:53 mark with his first goal of the day, assisted by sophomores Aleksey Koval (Kiev, Ukraine) and Jordan Zitoun (Irving, Texas). Curry answered with a tally from Sean Sylvester late in the period, and went into the final break holding a 3-2 lead.

The Statesmen pulled away in the third period, netting three unanswered goals. Cahill scored first to tie the game at 3-3. Two minutes later, first-year Patrick Moriarty (Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.) tallied the game-winner, with classmates Matthew Wallace (Skaneateles, N.Y.) and Tom Capalbo (Mamaroneck, N.Y.) recording the helpers. Moriarty went on to set up Wallace for an insurance goal with 2:07 left on the clock.

Both teams notched 42 shots. Curry was 1-for-2 on the power play, while Hobart went 0-for-3.

The Statesmen will be in action again on Jan. 18, when they travel to Neumann for an ECAC West contest at 7 p.m.