BELFAST, Northern Ireland – The RIT Men's Hockey team fell, 3-0, to Sacred Heart in the 2025 Friendship Four Consolation game, Saturday, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
Sacred Heart broke a scoreless tie with 3:28 left in the second period. Charles Tardif won a faceoff back to Michael Rubin at the top of the left faceoff circle. Rubin skated the puck into the corner and cut around a defender along the goal line before stuffing a puck under Burnham on the crease.
 
The teams remained scoreless until the Pioneers tallied two empty-net goals with under a minute left in regulation to close the game.
 
GAME NOTES

• Sacred Heart finished with a 26-21 advantage in shots on goal
• Senior forward Tyler Mahan led the Tigers with three blocked shots.
• First-year forward Zach Wigle won 10-of-15 faceoffs.
• RIT was 0-for-1 on the power play while holding the Pioneers scoreless on two extra-man attempts.
• Coupled with Friday's 4-0 first-round loss to Miami (Ohio), RIT was shutout in back-to-back games for the first time in Division I era program history. 

WHAT'S NEXT
RIT returns home to take on Canisius in an Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) home-and-home doubleheader, starting at the Gene Polisseni Center on Friday (Dec. 5) with a 7:05 p.m. faceoff, before heading to Buffalo on Saturday (Dec 6) for a 7:05 p.m. start at the LECOM Harborcenter.