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WE HAVE ANOTHER MAJOR AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT!
Our men's Coach of the Year..... leading his team into UCHC title contention and a playoff home game in his first season as an NCAA head coach...
It's
@BrettRiley27
of
@WilkesColonels
@WilkesMHockey
!
MAJOR AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT.....
Our women's Coach of the Year.... guiding his team to the No. 2 seed in just his first year on the job at Nazareth....
Chris Baudo!
@NazarethWhockey
@NazAthletics
MIH: Utica goaltender Gianluca Baggetta posted the best save percentage (.944) and GAA (1.65) among starters in the conference this season. He is third in the country in save percentage, and fourth in GAA. This is the best statistical season by a Utica starter in their history.
With Friday's loss by LVC, and their win Thursday night.... we have our first men's UCHC tournament qualifier!
@WilkesColonels
does it in their first year as a program, and they could have company in the tourney at the end of Saturday.
#UCHCHockey
At an absolutely incredible power play percentage of 35.1 percent, Elmira College is the men's Division III NCAA Statistical Champion for power play percentage!
2019 UCHC Women's Major Player Award Winners
Player of the Year: Katie Granato, Elmira College
Rookie of the Year: Abbey Luth, William Smith
Co-Goaltenders of the Year: Adrianna Brehm, Nazareth and Jillian Moffatt, Lebanon Valley
Defensive Player of the Year: Meg Lahey, Elmira
Congratulations to
@ElmiraCollege
@ECSoaringEagles
on sweeping this year's UCHC Championships! That is the first time in UCHC history that both tournament championships have gone to the same institution.
Elmira women's hockey forward and UCHC Player of the Year Katie Granato is on the list of finalists for the Laura Hurd National Player of the Year award that will have its winner announced this weekend.
MIH: ELMIRA to the Championship! In Triple OT, Krawczyk ends the fourth longest game in Division III History for a 2-1 win over Utica. They will play Stevenson.
Congratulations to our 2020 AHCA Men's Award Finalists. Utica's Conor Landrigan and Donald Flynn of
@WilkesColonels
are up for the Sid Watson National Player of the Year Award, while
@UCPioneers
head coach Gary Heenan is in the running for the Ed Jeremiah Award!
ELMIRA WINS IN DOUBLE OT! Shannon Strawinski with a game winning natural hat trick to erase an 0-2 hole, and we will have a new champion as EC beats Plattsburgh 3-2.
We made it everyone.... Day one on the road to the National Title as teams are able to begin practice as early as this morning. Let's make year two our best yet!
#UCHCHockey
#D3hky
Congratulations to
@UCPioneers
senior defenseman Dalton Carter. He has signed a tryout agreement with ECHL Toledo. We believe we'll have a few more signings out of Utica to report shortly.
MIH: Utica 5, Wilkes 1. Final. Utica will be the top seed in the UCHC Men's Tournament as they win a fourth straight league regular season title, and their third in a row as a member of the UCHC. Wilkes will be the second seed.
With their big win tonight,
@UCPioneers
has claimed at least a share of the men's regular season title and is the top seed for this year's tournament.
#UCHCHockey
Update: The UCHC membership will be represented on both sides of the Stanley Cup Finals.
@UCPioneers
grad Mike Levine is on the hockey ops staff for Vegas, and past
@NeumannKnights
goalie Brett Leonhardt is the video coach for the Caps. Congrats gents, and may the best team win.
With tonight's win, the
@ECSoaringEagles
women cannot have their lowest currently possible point percentage (.900) equaled by any other team.
In doing so,
@ECSoaringEagles
are your 2020-21 UCHC Women's Regular Season Champions!
MIH: Wilkes' Phil Erickson was 2nd overall in the nation with 4 shorthanded goals this year. The next highest freshman in the nation had two, and it was Wilkes' Wade Novak. LVC's Cole Hepler, Elmira's Connor Powell, and Kings' Luciano Bucci were tied for 3rd nationally with three
The Wilkes Colonels men will finish the regular season with the three most offensively productive freshmen on their roster. Donald Flynn led freshmen nationally at 1.44 points per game, followed by Tyler Barrow at 1.36, and Nick Fea at 1.21.
#UCHCHockey
We have an outright regular season champion. Utica 7, Manhattanville 1 the final from Utica tonight, and the
@UCPioneers
have wrapped up the 2017-18 Men's Regular Season Title!
With tonight's win, the Chatham men set a new program conference wins mark for a single season. With a win Saturday, they can tie the overall wins mark.
And they've done it in a way shorter season than years past. Absolutely remarkable improvement by the Cougars.
Manhattanville moves on! An empty netter seals it and
@GoValiants
defeats UMass Boston 6-4 in the NCAA Opening Round. They will play Geneseo in the quarterfinals.
The 2021 UCHC Men's Conference schedule is live.
Game times are still pending and will be added as ice times are confirmed. Additionally, the status of each contest is contingent upon campus, local, state and federal COVID-19 guidelines at that time.
Our goalie Gianluca Baggetta was just named this years Salutatorian. UC’s last 3 Salutatorians 2019 Baggs,2018 Mikhail Bushinski (Yale law)and 2017 Brett Szayner(Walsh school of bus.)
Good hockey players - better people.
@UCPioneers
@UCMensHockey
#Hattrick
UCHC Men's Awards 2019
Co-Players of the Year: Connor Powell, Elmira and Matt Lippa, Manhattanville
Rookie of the Year: Donald Flynn, Wilkes
Defensive Player of the Year: JR Wojciechowski, Nazareth
Goaltender of the Year: Gianluca Baggetta, Utica
And our men's final is set!
@ECSoaringEagles
knocks off another higher seed in No. 2 Stevenson by a 5-3 count, and will play Utica in the UCHC Men's final on Saturday in Utica!
Our UCHC Women's Player of the Week is Katie Granato! Granato's hat trick was more than enough to help Elmira take down No. 1 Norwich this past weekend.... And now, guess who's number one this week?
@ECSoaringEagles
MIH: Stevenson defeats Wilkes 4-1 in their semifinal game. Mustangs will either host Elmira, or go to Utica in the championship game, in what will be their first title game appearance as a men's program.
UCHC Women's Playoff Seeds:
1. Elmira
2. Nazareth
3. William Smith
4. Manhattanville
5. Utica
6. Neumann
Neumann at William Smith, Utica at Manhattanville are your opening round games.
Jamie was an alumna of the Elmira women's hockey program and an influential figure in the growth of ice hockey for women and girls in the Western US. She was also a very accomplished official who has worked games at the world championship level, and in the SPHL. Our condolences.
The 2 San Diego police detectives who died in the wrong-way crash Friday morning were identified as a married couple, Jamie Huntley-Park and Ryan Park.
Congratulations to our finalists for the AHCA Division III Awards! David Turco of
@GoValiants
is a finalist for National Coach of the Year, and Emma Crocker of
@ECSoaringEagles
is a finalist for the Laura Hurd Award for Division III Player of the Year!
#UCHCHockey
With wins and a Nazareth loss, Utica and Lebanon Valley become the first men's teams to clinch positions in the UCHC playoffs.
@UCPioneers
@LVCathletics
The composition of our six team UCHC women's tournament field has been determined, and we know
@ECSoaringEagles
will be the top seed. Seeds 2-6? Bring your A game and see how high you can go.
Our Women's Rookie of the Week... From
@NazAthletics
@NazarethWhockey
Taylor Hudon!
Congratulations to Taylor and the Golden Flyer women on their first ever win!
Fun Fact: There is only one remaining unbeaten and untied women's team in Division III, and that team is one of our members. Of course, we're talking about
@ECSoaringEagles
With wins by Stevenson and Utica to each reach 22 points, the top two seeds in the UCHC men's tournament have been decided. Utica will be the 1st seed, Stevenson the second.
@UCPioneers
@GoMustangSports
As the new school year approaches, we're taking a good look at the best returning talent the conference has to offer!
Today, the spotlight goes on UCHC Men's Co-Player of the Year Connor Powell, of
@ECSoaringEagles
#UCHCHockey
Utica's Mik Bushinski has inked an amateur tryout with the SPHL's Knoxville Ice Bears! Mik, a graduate student, is one of the few who signs a spring tryout and has already earned his Bachelor's degree. So he's done well in all areas. Congrats Mik!
@UCPioneers
The public debut today of the Thompson Trophy for Men's and Women's Champions. An honor to bestow the renaming of the trophy on someone who had such a tremendous impact on all of us in the UCHC. This one, and every one, is for you, Pat.
@ECSoaringEagles
@GoValiants
We have a men's regular season champ!
By virtue of Utica's 6-0 win over Neumann, the Pioneers will finish with the top points percentage in the conference and are the 2020-21 UCHC Men's Regular Season Champions!
They have won all four UCHC Men's Regular season titles to date.
Elmira's Connor Powell was second in the nation in goals per game this season through the regular season with 0.92 goals per game. His 23 goals lead the nation.
@ECSoaringEagles