AMHERST With last night’s road win over UMass, the Merrimack men’s hockey team moved up to No. 5 in the national Pairwise rankings. It’s December. Merrimack hasn’t had a team ranked this high in the Pairwise, this late into the season, since 2012.
NORTH ANDOVER Entering the night, the Merrimack College Warriors had power-play goals in 12 consecutive games. For a majority of the night, it looked as if that streak would come to an end at the hands of Vermont on Saturday; but two power-play tallies in the span of 2:32 pumped life into the Warriors as they escaped with a 3-2 overtime victory over the Catamounts.