Men’s Hockey Double Up Post, 4-2

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The MCLA Men's Ice Hockey team welcomed the Post University into the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink this evening for a non-conference matchup with the Eagles. MCLA burst out with four goals while Rocco Stolz recorded 32 saves to lead the Trailblazers to their fourth win of the season.

THE BASICS

• Date: Thursday, January 22, 2026
• Score: Post 2, MCLA 4
• Records: Post University Eagles 3-14-1 (NE10 2-8-1) | MCLA Trailblazers 4-9-3 (MASCAC 2-2-1)

HIGHLIGHTS

• MCLA broke through for the first goal of the game, when junior forward Cade Herrera (Brentwood, CA / Seahawks H.C) (17:30 of 1^st period, assisted by Herrera) chipped the puck off a Post player just inside the Trailblazers' defensive end. Herrera then out raced an Eagles defender to the puck along the right-side boards and came away with the puck, and passed it to junior forward Sean Schifferl (Fort Myers, FL / N.H. Monarchs) crashing to the net. Schifferl then back handed the puck into the lower right corner of the net for his sixth goal of the season while the assist was the sixth of the year for Herrera. It would be the only goal by either team in the opening period.
• The teams combined for four goals in the second period. The first three were all scored by MCLA. Junior forward Walter Brown (New Canaan, CT / Conn. Roughriders) (7:40 of 2^nd period, Glaubitz & White) picked up his first career goal, cleaning up a rebound of a shot by junior forward Gavin Glaubitz (Owings, MD / Connecticut Chiefs) that came off a faceoff win by junior forward Cody White (Orange, CT / East Coast Wizards). Glaubitz was credited with his first assist of the year, while White's was his third.
• Herrera (11:26, Murphy) would push the Trailblazer lead out to three goals about four minutes later, firing off a wrist shot from the slot after junior forward Quinn Murphy (Champaign, IL / Philadelphia H.C.) cleanly won the faceoff in the left side circle. The goal would also chase Post goalie Sam Edmands from the game. For Herrara it was his seventh goal of the year, and also his third multi-point game. The assist was the team-leading eighth of the season for Murphy.
• With the second period drawing to a close, both teams would score during a stretch of four on four following coincidental penalties. Senior defenseman Connor Nagy (Trenton, MI / Finlandia University) (17:35, Perdion) would push the MCLA lead to 4-0, scoring on a give and go play with freshman forward Sam Perdion (Strongsville, OH / Charlotte Rush). The goal was the first of the season for Nagy, and marked third straight season in which he has tallied a goal for MCLA. The assist was the second of the season by Perdion.
• The Post goal was scored by Matteo Peca (18:32, Glasrud & McGuigan) and assisted by Tanner Glasrud and Hugh McGuigan, and would send the teams into the second intermission with the Trailblazers leading 4-1.
• The Eagles would keep the pressure on MCLA freshman goalie Roco Stolz (Denver, CO / Charlotte Rush), out shooting the home team 12-5 in the third frame, but Stolz would hold the road team back until a scrum in front of the net with four seconds to play would allow Jacob Howell (19:56 of 3^rd period, unassisted) to sneak a shot past.
• Stolz would finish the night with 32 saves on 34 shots and advance his record to 4-5-2. Edmands would fall to 0-1-0 and finish with 18 saves on 21 shots. Relief netminder John Simon stopped eight of nine shots for the Eagles.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

• Shots: Post 34, MCLA 30
• Saves: Post 26, MCLA 32
• Faceoffs Won: Post 33, MCLA 39
• Penalty/Minutes: Post 3/6:00, MCLA 5/10:00
• Power Plays: Post 0 for 2, MCLA 0 for 0

UP NEXT

On Saturday, MCLA will be back in action when it travels to Fitchburg State University and the Wallace Civic Center for a MASCAC matchup with the Falcons. The puck will drop at 4 p.m.

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