Box Score SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--The Western New England University men's hockey team went 4-for-7 on the power play, including junior Matt Dore's game-winning goal in overtime, to lift the Golden Bears to a thrilling 5-4 victory over visiting Becker College in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Northeast opener for both squads on Saturday. Western New England improves 2-1 on the season after making its home debut at Smead Rink on Western Mass Youth Hockey Day, while the Hawks drop to 0-3 overall. CollegeHockeyStats.net Official Boxscore

Dore capped a wild night by potting his team-leading third goal of the season with 1 minute and 18 seconds remaining in the 5-minute extra session. After Alexandre Breese was whistled for a 2-minute hooking penalty to put WNE on the man-advantage, head coach Greg Heffernan called for a timeout to set up Dore's late-game heroics.

The teams played overtime because Becker staged a furious rally with two extra-attacker goals in the final 1:41 of regulation. After a Golden Bears 2-minute holding penalty, Hawks head coach Steve Hoar called timeout with 2 minutes left to set up some plays, pulled his goaltender Gregg Hussey and his team trailing 4-2. The strategy worked as Nickolas McKee scored a power play goal 19 seconds later and Breese notched the tying goal with 58 seconds left.

Senior captain Brian Prost added two goals and an assist for WNE, and senior assistant captain John Kelly (2 assists) and junior defenseman Michael Darrar (1 goal, 1 assist) also enjoyed a multi-point evening.

Gerald Owen, Nickolas McKee and Breese each had a goal and an assist for the Hawks, who outshot the Golden Bears by a 48-26 margin.

Junior goaltender Tim Carr was equal to the task by making 44 saves in the WNE net. Carr made a tremendous glove save off the stick of Matthew Pietrzykowski from the left face-off circle that prevented a third third-period goal for the Hawks.

Western New England twice had two-goal leads at 2-0 and 4-2.

In the first period, senior Alan Martin connected with Dan Monahan for a power-play goal at the 6:28 mark. Prost made it 2-0 on another power-play tally by matching Monahan with his first of the season 3:10 later.

The Hawks, however, tied it 2-2 by the end of the opening stanza on goals by Owen and Tyler Auricchio 34 seconds apart. Owen used a WNE defender as a screen on Carr and beat the goalie with a wrist shot high over his right shoulder under the crossbar.

Darrar put WNE back in the lead on the power-play just 1:42 into the second period on a feed from Prost. Then less than 3 minutes later, Prost scored his second of the game on assists by Kelly and sophomore defenseman Will Preston to restore the Golden Bears' second two-goal advantage.

Western New England dominated the overtime, outshooting BC 4 to 2 and carrying the run of play.

Becker went 2-of-9 on the power play and won 49 of 86 face-offs.

Sophomore Ryan Taylor won six of eight face-offs and Prost was 6-1 to lead WNE in that category.