AUBURN, Mass. - Sophomore forward Jack Graham (Burnaby, British Columbia) took a feed from rookie forward Ryan Teehan (Easton, Mass.) and gave the Western Connecticut State University men's hockey team an early lead, however, host Anna Maria College rallied to down the visitors, 5-1, in a non-conference matchup on Thursday evening.

Tobias Omholt led the comeback for the Amcats with a goal and two assists. Nolan Ring and Brandon Della-Paolera each contributed a scoring strike and a helper in the winning effort. 

The Wolves got on the board 9:50 into the game when Graham canned his first marker of the campaign. They would hold the 1-0 advantage heading into the second period. Omholt evened the contest at 1-1 when he took a long pass from Matthew Hennessey and found the back of the twine. Anna Maria added back-to-back power play tallies late in the second and early in the third to stretch the gap to 3-1. They would eventually notch a late short-handed tally followed by yet another power play marker with less than a minute remaining to wrap up the game.

The Amcats finished ahead in shots, 49-25, while controlling faceoffs, 47-15. WestConn first-year netminder Malte Hedlund (Skelleflea, Sweden) finished with 44 saves while Hennessey notched 24 for the winners. 

With the loss, WestConn moved to 0-5 overall while the Amcats improved to 2-2. The Wolves return to the ice on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. for a Little East Conference battle at Keene State.