Annapolis, MD: On Friday, December 12, 2025, the visiting United States Military Academy’s Black Knights defeated the United States Naval Academy Midshipmen by a final score of 6-3. The game was played before a raucous, sold out crowd at McMullen Arena at the Brigade Sports Complex in Annapolis Maryland. Earlier in the day, the Navy women’s team defeated Army by a score of 5-2. The games were a lead up to the Army/Navy football game, played at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, MD on Saturday, December 13, which Navy went on to win.
Robert Staring would open the scoring for the Black Knights just two minutes into the game, with assists from Troy Negus and Wyatt Sirimaturos. At 4:01 Butler Chesen would tie the game for the Midshipmen with an assist from Patrick Laughlin. Troy Negus would score an unassisted goal at 18:36 to give the lead back to Army.
Army would again score early in the period at 1:39. Luke Dwyer would get the goal with helpers from Remington Bergeron and Wolf Woelk. Less than a minute later, at 2:28, Robert Staring would score a power play goal with an assist from Sirimaturos. This goal would end up being the game winning goal. Wyatt Sirimaturos would get his third point of the game when he scored a power play goal at 5:58, with the assists coming from Staring and Jackson Dickson. Navy got back on the board at 9:13 with Chessen’s second goal of the game. Andrew Penca and Jack Teuschl had assists on the Chessen goal.
The Black Knights scored first again in the third period, when Brendan Connor scored unassisted at 6:50. Navy’s Butler Chessen would get the hat-trick at 14:17 while on the power play.
In goal for the winning Army Black Knights was Charlie Zurowski, making 27 saves on 30 shots. Taking the loss in net for Navy was Bailen Smargiassi, who made 37 saves on 43 shots.
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