Small (?) College Hockey in the Northeast

The Hockey Tattler

Volume I, No.11

March 8, 2010

College hockey is alive and well. Unless you are a Bowdoin College fan, that is. The Bowdoin Polar Bears fell to Middlebury College yesterday, in a penalty-filled underachieving game.

They wound up on the losing side, 3 - 2, in front of a home town crowd at the Sidney Watson Arena. The Bears were favored, going into the tournament with a NESCAC league-leading record of 19-6-1.

As everyone in hockey knows, regular season records are often not a good predictor of tournament play. But the Polar Bears are not done playing hockey this year. Why?

There is another college league, the grandaddy of them all. The NCAA has invited Bowdoin to its annual tournament. Next week, the Bears will travel across the mountains and rivers to Oswego, New York.

On Saturday March 13, they get to play Oswego State (SUNY), a powerhouse hockey school with a student enrollment about six times bigger than small, private, liberal arts Bowdoin. It will be a quarterfinal game, and Oswego has to be heavily favored. David vs. Goliath. Anything is possible when a Polar Bear gets out on the ice.

GO YOU BEARS!