NORTHFIELD, Vt.- The Norwich Men's Ice Hockey team completed a momentous sweep of Elmira Saturday afternoon after erupting for three goals in the second period before celebrating senior day, honoring the six members of the 2024-25 graduating class postgame.

Despite the Cadets holding the early edge, it would be the Soaring Eagles who opened the scoring 3:46 in with a goal by Chance Gorman. After the two sides traded opportunities, Norwich evened the score. Cooper Bertrand (Caledon, On.) generated forecheck pressure causing a turnover before finding Owen Sclisizzi (Milton, On.) who buried it five-hole on Elmira goaltender Brodie Haynes to even the score.

Three minutes later, on a similar looking play. Ben van Waterschoot (Whitby, On.) caused another Soaring Eagle defensive zone turnover before finding Johnny Johnson (Naperville, Ill.) on the doorstep giving the Cadets the lead. Elmira looked to answer as the period wound down, but Sami Molu (Toronto, On.) came up with several big time stops to keep Norwich ahead at intermission.

The Soaring Eagles found the equalizer in the second period courtesy of Ryan Reifler. In the latter stages of the frame, the Cadets struck three times in 4:03. The barrage began with Bryan O'Mara (Syracuse, N.Y.) sniping a wrist shot directly off a Clark Kerner (Kansas City, Kan.) faceoff win. Two and a half minutes later, on a man advantage, van Waterschoot and O'Mara exchanged passes up high before sending it to Bertrand whose shot deflected off an Elmira penalty killer adding to the lead. Soon after, Bertrand cycled the zone and dished it off to Nick Foster (Amherst, Mass.) before setting up Kerner for a bar-down wrist shot making it 5-2, spelling the end of the night for Haynes after permitting five goals on 20 shots.

The exclamation point came just under five minutes into the third. Nick Cordeiro (Mississauga, On.) created the turnover and gave it to Colin Elliott (Peterborough, On.). Elliott's attempt to the net was deflected home by Zach Ophoven (Burlington, On.) making it a four goal Norwich lead, where the game would stand.

With the home portion of their schedule concluded, the Cadets will hit the road to Saratoga Springs to round out New England Hockey Conference (NEHC) play with a weekend series against Skidmore starting Friday Feb. 21 at 7 PM.