The Air Force hockey team upset third-ranked Yale 4-3 in a nonconference college hockey game Sunday night before a sellout crowd at the Cadet Ice Arena.
Air Force (3-6) handed Yale its first loss of the season after five straight wins. Yale came into the game as the nation’s top-scoring team at just less than six goals per game. It equals the highest-ranked team AFA has ever beaten (Colorado College and Michigan in 2009).
The Falcons trailed 3-0 heading into the third period, but a flurry of goals capped by freshman Jason Fabian’s game-winner with 3:49 remaining gave Air Force the improbable comeback.
“This is one for the ages,” coach Frank Serratore said. “The people who saw this one saw something special. We are a bunch of nobodies who are struggling right now, and we came from being down 3-0 in the third to knock off Goliath.”
Skyhawks in region final.
The No. 3-ranked Fort Lewis women’s soccer team advanced to the NCAA Division II Central Region final after edging Metro State 4-2 on penalty kicks after a scoreless tie through two overtimes Sunday in Durango. Metro State finished the season with a 12-5-4 record, while Fort Lewis advanced with a 17-2-2 mark. Both of the Skyhawks’ ties came against the Roadrunners this season.
Fort Lewis’ Megan Striedel clinched the shootout win by scoring to open the fifth round. The Skyhawks will play Winona State (Minn.) on Friday in Michigan for the Central Region championship.
Cowboys’ Herron recovering.
Wyoming freshman running back Robert Herron was released Sunday from a Las Vegas hospital, where doctors kept him overnight for observation.
Herron was taken off the field on a stretcher and departed the stadium in an ambulance after a tackle in Saturday’s 42-16 loss to UNLV. Wyoming spokesman Tim Harkins said Herron suffered a concussion.
Doctors at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas cleared Herron to fly back to Laramie on Sunday with Wyoming team doctor Kent Kleppinger and head athletic trainer Bob Waller.
CU hoops signs forward.
The Colorado men’s basketball program signed its third Los Angeles-area recruit in Damiene Cain, a 6-foot-7 forward from Harvard Westlake High School in North Hollywood, Calif.
