Around the boards (12/10): Pirates finish off 4-point weekend

Duffy hat trick leads Maine, Colby gets split

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- The Portland Pirates scored 3 goals in a span of 2:15 in the second period Sunday afternoon, holding off the Bridgeport Sound Tigers for a 3-2 win in the American Hockey League.

Ryan Dingle scored his 1st professional goal in the second-period flurry, and Gordie Dwyer and Tyler Bouck also scored for Portland (14-10-1-1, 4th in Atlantic Division). Mike McKenna made 24 saves for the win.

The victory came on the heels of a 5-4 win at division-leading Providence on Saturday night.

Matt Christie scored a pair of goals in the win, negating a 2-goal night from P-Bruin Jeff Hoggan. Gerald Coleman posted 31 saves for Portland.

HOCKEY EAST

UMAINE 3, MERRIMACK 1: Maine native Matt Duffy accounted for all the scoring for the Black Bear scoring on Saturday night, as Maine in some small part avenged a 2-game weekend sweep at the hands of the Warriors last month.

It was the 1st career hat trick for Duffy.

NESCAC

COLBY, BOWDON SPLIT PAIR: Freshman goalie Cody McKinney made 24 saves as Colby held off Bowdoin 3-1 in the 1st game of a weekend home-and-home on Friday, and then Ryan Blossom and Thomas Herd scored in the 3rd period on Saturday night to lift the Polar Bears to a 5-3 win for the split.

Colby is now 4-3-0 on the season, while Bowdoin is 5-2-0. With a 4-1-0 conference record, the Mules sit atop the early NESCAC standings.