NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The St. Olaf College men's hockey team dropped its Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) series opener to Concordia-Moorhead by a 3-2 margin in overtime on Friday night at St. Olaf Ice Arena.

St. Olaf (7-4-5, 3-2-2 MIAC) held a pair of one-goal leads, but Concordia (8-7-2, 4-4-1 MIAC) responded to tie the game both teams before Tucker Skime won it for the Cobbers at 1:37 of overtime. The game was the Oles' eighth overtime game this season, while the loss marked the first consecutive losses of the season for St. Olaf.

Junior Tyler Green gave St. Olaf its first lead of the night just 2:08 in, firing the puck home after junior Joey Kennelly and first year Connor McNaughton combined to get the puck to Green. The goal was Green's sixth of the year, tying him with senior Jonathan Panisa for the team lead.

Concordia tied the game a little over 10 minutes later when Caden Triggs turned the puck home from the top of the crease. Junior Camden Benson gave the Oles a 2-1 lead at the first intermission with his first goal of the season at the 15:35 mark, scoring with a one-timer off a cross-ice pass from Green for his fifth collegiate goal.

St. Olaf maintained the 2-1 lead until Joe Harguindeguy scored with 1:27 to go in the second period to send the teams into the second intermission even at 2-2. The Cobbers outshot the Oles by a 10-6 margin in the scoreless third period, which included over three minutes of power-play time for the visitors.

After the Cobbers won the faceoff to start overtime, St. Olaf possessed the puck for most of the period before Skime weaved into the offensive zone and fired the puck top shelf to win it for the visitors at the 1:37 mark.

First year Ryan Nolan made 34 saves in the loss for the Oles, while Noel Olsonawski had 20 saves for the Cobbers. Twelve of Olsonawski's 20 saves came in the second period.

St. Olaf will look to salvage a split in the 2 p.m. series finale on Saturday, Jan. 24.