The UAH club hockey team saw its four-game win streak snapped Saturday as the Alabama AAU D1 team bit back with a 4-3 overtime decision at the Huntsville Ice Sports Center.
A day after the Chargers sniped the Tide 3-2 in overtime, UAH surrendered a 3-0 lead to fall to 4-2-1 on the season. Alabama improved to 5-4-0.
Keaton Watts scored the first two Charger goals, one coming three minutes into the contest, the other on a tap-in rebound two minutes into the second period.
At the 4:36 mark of the second, Josh Corrow’s back-hand pass from behind the goal line found Henry Hoff all alone in the slot, and Hoff buried it to give UAH a 3-0 lead.
The Frozen Tide got on the board with three minutes left in the second on a Dylan Dreveny goal. Early in the third, Finn Forster cut UAH’s lead to 3-2.
Alabama then tied the game halfway through the third on a Matt Dumond power-play goal that wasn’t without controversy. The UAH bench was very vocal as it appeared a lineman missed an offsides call against the Tide right before the goal.
The Chargers survived a late Kolton Watts interference penalty that extended into overtime, but Seb Henault scored the game-winner for the Tide with 1:51 remaining.
Andrew Sledge made 38 saves, including some big saves in the overtime penalty kill to keep the Chargers alive. The Tide outshot the Chargers 42-32.
UAH gets back into College Hockey South Division 2 North action next weekend with a big series at home against Clemson. Both the Chargers and Tigers are 3-0 in conference play.
Pictured: UAH goaltender Andrew Sledge makes a save against the Tide. Photo by Todd Thompson/RiverCat Photography.