BABSON PARK, Mass.— Senior Cam Joslin (Cohasset, Mass.) scored his first goal of the season to even the score two minutes and thirty seconds into the third period and No. 11 Babson College went on to a 1-1 tie against Amherst College in a non-conference men's ice hockey game Sunday afternoon inside the Babson Skating Center.

With the deadlock, Babson improves to 7-1-2 on the season while Amherst is unbeaten in its last three games and moves to 3-2-1 overall. Senior Ian Driscoll (Middleton, Mass.) scored in the third round to give the Beavers a 1-0 victory in the shootout.

Senior Nate Mueller (Rogers, Minn.) made 24 saves in goal, including two in the 5-minute overtime, in the tie. Senior Brendan Kennedy (Georgetown, Ont.) and first-year Reid Pehrkon (Vienna, Va.) registered assists on the tying goal for the Beavers.

Senior Zachary Murray (Alexandria, Va.) scored the lone goal for the Mammoths in the second period, with assists from first-year Romulus Riego de Dios (Gahanna, Ohio) and junior Matt Vander Vort (Edina, Minn.). First-year Vincent Lamberti (Los Angelos, Calif.) finished with 26 saves for the visitors, including two in overtime.

Babson had an 11-7 advantage in the opening period but neither team was able to break the ice, despite two power play attempts by the Beavers and one by the Mammoths. Amherst had a golden opportunity to get on the board with seven and a half minutes left in the second period when first-year John Small (Orland Park, Ill.) sent junior Jacob Pohl (Chicago, Ill.) in on a breakaway against Mueller but his shot went wide right.

Amherst finally broke through at the 13:45 mark of the second period when Murray tucked the puck inside the right post off a feed from Riego de Dios. The visitors had a 9-6 shot margin in the middle frame and took a 1-0 lead into the third period.

The Beavers scored the equalizer early in the third when Kennedy collected the puck behind the net and skated to the left circle before feeding Joslin in the slot, and Joslin snapped a shot past Lamberti to tie the score with 17:24 on the clock. Babson had a slim 8-7 shot advantage in the third period but the score remained tied at 1-1 through 60 minutes.

Each team had two shots on goal in the overtime stanza but were denied by Mueller and Lamberti. Both teams came up empty on their first two attempts in the shootout before Driscoll scored for Babson in the third round to give the hosts the 1-0 verdict in the shootout.

The Beavers finished with a 27-25 advantage in shots on goal and the teams combined to go 0-for-5 on the power play.

Babson is off for the next four weeks for final exams and the holidays, returning to action against Elmira in the Oswego State Holiday Classic on January 2. Amherst plays again in a conference match-up on Friday at Middlebury at 7 p.m.

GAME NOTES
• Babson stopped a two-game losing streak against Amherst and is 26-18-5 all-time against the Mammoths in a series that dates back to the 1972-73 season.
• The Beavers are 1-1-1 against teams from the NESCAC this season and 2-3-2 dating back to the start of last season.
• Joslin's goal was his first since scoring a third-period game-winner in a 2-1 win over Norwich on January 31, 2025.
• Mueller stopped 47 of 50 shots (94.0 percent) with a 1.44 goals against average in a 1-0-1 weekend.