Hobart survives 5 hours, 4 OTs to succeed in D-III hockey semis

Hobart and Curry began their NCAA Division III males’s hockey quarterfinal Saturday evening. The sport ended Sunday morning.

Bauer Morrissey’s purpose at 15:17 of the fourth extra time — a couple of minutes after midnight — gave defending nationwide champion Hobart a 4-3 victory and a visit again to the NCAA semifinals.

Curry goalie Shane Soderwall tied the Division III males’s document with 98 saves. He had stopped 61 in a row earlier than Morrissey ended a recreation that lasted a little bit over 5 hours.

“I sort of simply blacked out,” Morrissey mentioned after Hobart’s 102nd and last shot of the sport.

Soderwall, a freshman, matched the Division III single-game saves mark set by Justin Lochner for Augsburg in opposition to Gustavus Adolphus in what was a four-overtime Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Convention playoff semifinal on Feb. 27, 2010. Augsburg misplaced that recreation 6-5.

Soderwall’s 98 saves tied the second most in NCAA hockey historical past; Sirena Enright stopped 101 for Chatham in a Division III ladies’s recreation in opposition to Plattsburgh on Oct. 22, 2005. Plattsburgh gained 10-1.

The 135 minutes and 17 seconds of ice time marked the second-longest recreation in Division III males’s hockey historical past, trailing the Augsburg-Gustavus recreation that went 138:38.

Hobart, which is on a 23-game unbeaten streak, will play Utica in Thursday’s nationwide semifinals.

The Related Press contributed to this report.