WORCESTER, Massachusetts - After surrendering a tying shorthanded goal earlier in the third period, the American International College ice hockey team bounced back to snag a key Atlantic Hockey America win, with a goal at 19:08 by Alfred Lindberg serving as the difference in the 3-2 victory over the College of the Holy Cross on Friday, November 8.

AIC improves to 2-6-1 with the win, and is back over .500 in the AHA with a 2-2-0-0-0-1 mark for seven points.

With time winding down in regulation and the score tied 2-2, Alexander Malinowski fired the puck in deep with Oscar Geschwind chasing in on the left side. The puck bounced off the end wall right to him along the goal line, and he fired a sharp-angled shot that squeaked through Crusaders goalkeeper Thomas Gale and laid in the crease. Lindberg, crashing the net, jammed it home for his second of the season. 

All of AIC's prior scoring came in the first period. The opening tally was a shot off the stick of Blake Dangos that came through a screen from the right point, hitting a Crusader defender on the way in; Douglas Andersson and Justin Mexico picked up assists on Dangos's first as a Yellow Jacket at 14:25.

A little over three minutes later, it was Lindberg who made it 2-0, tipping a left-point shot by Josh Barnes past Gale and into the cage at 17:56. Alexander Malinowski, who had fed Barnes for the one-timer, earned the second assist on the play.

The Crusaders cut the gap back to one with the only goal of the second, as Michael Hodge tallied at 3:12, and tied it midway through the third on a shorthanded goal that bounced off of an AIC defender at 12:13.

Adam Manji earned his first collegiate win in his first collegiate start, stuffing 28 shots including a Matt DeBoer chance from in tight with 11 seconds remaining in regulation to preserve the result.

AIC will close its four-game in-state road swing with a two-game set at Bentley University beginning Friday, November 15 at 7:00 p.m.