AMHERST, Mass. -- Quinton Fox scored one and assisted on another goal Saturday afternoon and Alex Wisco made 27 saves to help the Amherst College men's hockey team edge conference rival #11 Trinity, 3-2, at Orr Rink.

Amherst head coach Jack Arena '83 won his 500th game in the process, becoming the 10th men's coach at the Div. III level to reach that milestone. Arena is now 500-374-81 (.566 win percentage) over his 39 seasons at Amherst. He is the fourth winningest active coach in Div. III men's hockey and the 10th all-time. 

"Jack is an amazing teacher, coach and mentor," said Amherst College Director of Athletics Don Faulstick. "He has made such an positive impact  in lives of current and past players under his leadership. It was never a question if he'd get to 500, just when. It was awesome to see how hard the team played this entire weekend to get these two wins."

Arena won the Hobey Baker Award in 1982-83 as a player at Amherst and began coaching at the school the following season. This is his 40th year and 39th season for the Purple & White. 

"Obviously very few people are fortunate enough to do a job like this as long as I have," Arena said. "With that longevity comes some milestones, but the nice thing about it is -- the wins are great -- but 40 years and it's never felt like work, which I think probably goes a long way to making this as enjoyable and as successful as it's been, and I've been lucky too, I've had some great people to work with. It's certainly an honor to have a place like Amherst College want me for this long."



GAME HIGHLIGHTS: 

*  The game was scoreless after one period, with Wisco stopping all 11 Trinity shots he faced. The Bantams took a 1-0 lead early in the second period when Riley Prattson poked a loose puck in th the crease past Wisco durin a scrum in front of the goal. 

* The Mammoths tied the game with 4:07 left in the frame. Ben Ritter started the play just inside his own blue line, firing a pass to the blade of Kuzma, who quickly slid the puck to Bobby Luca as the pair crossed the Trinity blue line. Luca took a stride and deftly delivered the puck back to Kuzma, who streaked through the left circle, cut in front of the goal and beat Bantam goalkeeper to the five-hole.

* Just 1:09 late it was 2-1 Amherst. Connor Merrill got he play started, sending a pass to Zach Murray, who sneakily dumped the puck to Ryan Corcoran with a behind-the-back pass. Corcoran took the puck in the right circle, skated toward the goal and slid a pass along the topof the crease to the speedy Fox, who received it at the far left post and deposited it into the goal.

* Early in the final stanza, the Mammoths took a 3-1 lead on the strength of a nice shot from Josh Burke, who took a pass from teammate Fox at the bottom right circle, turned and skated toward the Bantam goal and delivered with a high shot over the shoulder of the goalie to the short side of the goal.

* Trinity made it 3-2 with Prattson's second goal of the game coming with 13:22 remaining. Wisco was at his best during that time, making 8 of his 27 saves, including a glove save with only eight seconds remaining that kept the game tied. 

BY THE NUMBERS:

* Trinity out shot Amherst in the game, 29-23. The face-off were nearly dead even, with the Bantams holding a slight 31-30 edge in face-offs won. 

* There were eight penalties in the 60 minutes, six called on the visitors. Amherst went 0 for 6 on the power-play in the game however. 

* Tyler Bourque won 7 of 11 face-offs taken Matt Toporowski 10 of 19. 

* The Mammoths had seven blocked shots in the game, while the Bantams did not have one.