BABSON PARK, Mass.— Junior Jimmy Fallon (Milton, Mass) registered his second career hat trick as Babson College edged Norwich University, 4-3, in a Little East Conference (LEC) men's ice hockey game Friday evening inside the Babson Skating Center.

With the victory, the Beavers improved to 5-0-0 and 3-0-0 in the Little East while the Cadets fall to 2-2-0 overall and 2-1-0 in the LEC.

Junior Joseph Kramer (Bridgewater, Mass.) also scored for the Beavers while sophomore Evan Brown (Little Silver, N.J.) collected three assists in the win. Seniors Egan Schmitt (Schuylerville, N.Y.), Ian Driscoll (Middleton, Mass.) and Nolan Dion (Marshfield, Mass.) and junior CJ Beals (Chelmsford, Mass.) produced assists and senior Nate Mueller (Summit, N.J.) made 17 saves of his 35 saves in the third period to secure the victory.

Junior Zach Ophoven (Burlington, Ont.), sophomore Kyle Kudrna (Bartlett, Ill.) and senior Matt Harvey (Fort Covington, N.Y.) scored for the Cadets, and first-year Niko Benjamin (Surprise, Ariz.), senior Nick Cordeiro (Mississauga, Ont.), and juniors Boyd Stahlbaum (Peterborough, Ont.) and Owen Sclisizzi (Milton, Ont.) registered assists. Junior Sami Molu (Toronto, Ont.) made 25 saves in goal in the setback.

Fallon put the Beavers on the board less than three minutes into the game, with assists from Brown and Schmitt at 3:44. Babson doubled its lead later in the first period when Brown stole the puck behind the next and fed Fallon at the right circle, and he ripped a shot past Molu at 15:32 for a 2-0 lead.

Norwich came out of the first intermission and fired in two goals in the first two minutes of the second period. The Cadets capitalized on a 2-of-2 when Cordeiro fed Ophoven on the left side and he lifted a shot past Mueller into the upper right corner at the 1:00 mark. Just 67 seconds later, Babson turned the puck over deep in its own end and Kudrna pounced on the loose puck and buried his first goal of the season to tie the game at 1-1.

Babson regained the lead with a power play goal later in the second frame. Driscoll's shot from the right circle was kicked away by Molu but Kramer scored on the rebound from the left circle at 15:47. The Beavers went ahead by two goals two minute later when Fallon threw a backhanded pass from behind the net out on front but the puck went off the back of the goaltender and into the net to complete Fallon's hat trick.

The Cadets pulled back to within a goal five minutes into the third period on Harvey's shot from the left circle at 5:02. Norwich ramped up the offense in an attempt for a tying game, firing 18 shots on goal in the third period, including six after pulling the goalie along with a Babson penalty in the final two minutes for a 6-on-4 advantage, but Mueller and the Beaver defense prevented an equalizer.

Norwich finished with a 38-29 advantage in shots on goal. Babson scored on its only power play attempt and killed off all three Norwich attempts with the man advantage.

Both teams will play again on Saturday at 4 p.m. as Babson will host Vermont State Castleton and Norwich travels to Southern Maine.