After posting the best season the program had seen, Colby's ice hockey team hoped that they had finally turned the corner.
The school brought back one the original member, Bill Millett, to serve as an assistant for the baseball team and he also volunteered to help out with the hockey club.
Other then the three players who graduated, Carlson fell ill in December and was recuperating at home while Scott and Tattersall decided not to join the team this season.
Bates did eventually tie the game in the third but the Blue and Grey kept the ice tilted in their favor when overtime began.
However, after more than an hour of game time, Eddie Sturhahn found himself on a breakaway and poked the puck past an exhausted netminder for the winning goal.
[3] The Mules were riding high after the win but a week later New Hampshire arrived and gave the team a bloody nose.
After the humbling they received, the team was put through their pace going into a match with the Brunswick Cabots, a nearby amateur club.
Drummond found Sturhahn for the go-ahead-goal just 32 seconds into the third overtime and forced West and the defense to weather a barrage of shots for the next nine and a half minutes.
The top line of Sturhahn, Scott and Drummond acted like they had never seem one another before and showed a total lack of teamwork in the match.
West and the defense did what they could but the Mules found it impossible to completely stem the tide of the Polar Bears' offense.
Sturhahn opened the scoring and Pomerleau nearly joined shortly afterwards, however, the referee had blown his whistle just before the puck entered the cage and the goal was disallowed.
The moves seemed to work early when Sturhahn opened with a brilliant exhibition and caged two goals after solo runs up the ice.