The UAH club hockey team lost 5-4 on Saturday night at Georgia Tech in its regular season finale.
The Chargers, who will play in the College Hockey South Division 2 tournament in Huntsville next weekend, drop to 9-9-1 overall and 7-5-0 in CHS play. Georgia Tech improves to 4-18-1 overall and 3-8-1 in CHS play.
UAH took an early 1-0 lead on a Bradly McDonald breakaway goal just 1:48 in, but Georgia Tech led 2-1 at the first intermission after two John McEvilly goals, the second coming with 21 seconds remaining.
McEvilly then got a hat trick by scoring 15 seconds into the second period for a 3-1 Jackets lead.
UAH cut the lead in half when Keaton Watts scored on a breakaway short-handed about four minutes later. Then with 13:31 remaining in the second, Elijah Howard poked in a rebound off Tech goaltender Brendan Germano’s skate to tie the game at 3-3.
Watts scored again with 3:18 remaining in the period to regain the lead for UAH.
McEvilly struck again with his fourth goal of the game to tie it at 4-4 with 13:25 left in the third. With 10:59 to go, Zach Keschner put Georgia Tech up for good.
Goaltender Cameron Crawford stopped 55 of 60 shots for UAH.