ALBANY, N.Y. – Junior Nate Hanley scored the game-winner with 1:05 remaining in overtime to give the Union College men's hockey team its first season sweep of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 2017-18 and keep the Mayor's Cup in Schenectady for the fourth straight year with a 3-2 (OT) victory on Saturday night at MVP Arena.
 
Senior Josh Nixon scored a pair of goals in addition to Hanley's game-winner, as Union (14-9-1) won the Mayor's Cup for the ninth time in 12 matchups against the Engineers. Junior Colby MacArthur recorded the lone assist of the night for the Garnet Chargers on Nixon's second tally.
 
The victory, combined with the women's team's win earlier in the day, marks the first time in seven years that one school earned both Mayor's Cup trophies in the same season.
 
Jack Brackett opened the scoring for RPI (9-12-2) at the 8:05 mark of the first period, but Union responded less than three minutes later when Nixon potted his first of the game and 10th of the season to knot the score with 9:09 remaining in the frame.
 
After a scoreless second stanza, Nixon gave Union its first lead of the game with 3:49 gone by in the third period, matching his career high with his 11th goal of the year by taking a feed by MacArthur and firing it home. The lead did not last long, however, as Rensselaer knotted the score at two 3:10 later with a Tyler Hotson unassisted tally.
 
RPI outshot Union 6-3 for the remainder of regulation, but junior Kyle Chauvette turned aside all six attempts to send the game to overtime.
 
The Garnet Chargers outshot the Engineers 4-1 in the extra frame, with Chauvette stopping a shot in the opening seconds and the first three Union shots denied by RPI netminder Noah Giesbrecht. After two minutes of back-and-forth action, Hanley took a feed from senior Cullen Ferguson and beat Giesbrecht for his eighth goal of the season to set off a Union celebration.
 
Union finished the game outshooting RPI by a 28-22 margin, with Chauvette stopping 20 shots to improve to 2-0 in Mayor's Cup outings.                                                                           
 
Union will turn its attention back to ECAC Hockey play, beginning a stretch of 10 straight games to end the regular season beginning on Friday at 7 p.m. against Yale University at Messa Rink.