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With a 5-1 win over Hunstville, the UAA hockey team surpasses last season’s win total

With seven games left in the regular season, the UAA hockey team surpassed last season’s win total by beating Alabama Huntsville 5-1 Friday night at the Seawolf Sports Complex.

It was the fourth win of the season for the Seawolves, who won three games last season.

UAA outshot the visitors 46-36, got points from 11 players and 35 saves from junior goaltender Kris Carlson.

Zach Nazzarett, a freshman who joined the team after the holiday break, scored two goals to continue his hot streak. In five games with the Seawolves, he has scored points in four of them.

The Seawolves improved to 4-14-3 overall and 4-11-2 in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. They were 3-28-3 last season under first-year coach Matt Curley.

Alabama Hunstville dropped to 1-19-3, 1-13-3. The teams meet again Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Seawolf Sports Complex.

Nazzarett, a 5-foot-8 forward, contributed to a three-goal barrage that gave the Seawolves a 3-0 lead after one period and added another goal in the third period. With four goals and one assist in five games, he’s averaging a point a game since coming to UAA from the Youngstown (Ohio) Phantoms of the U.S. Hockey League.

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Nick Wicks and Trey de Graaf also found the net in the first period. Luc Brown and Rylee St. Onge assisted on Wicks’ goal, and Jared Nash and Zach Court assisted on the goals by de Graaf and Nazzarett.

After a scoreless second period, sophomore Tanner Schachle gave UAA a 4-0 lead with his team-high sixth goal of the season. Alex Frye and Eric Sinclair assisted on the goal, which came a little more than two minutes into the third period.

Eighteen seconds later, Huntsville finally got a puck past Carlson on a shot by Austin Beaulieu. Five minutes after that, Nazzarett struck again, this time on assists from Frye and Carmine Buono, to make it 5-1.

The teams combined for 82 shots, including 35 in the second period. Mark Sinclair made 41 saves for Huntsville.

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