Alvernia scored the only goal of the game late in the first period to hand the Misericordia University hockey team a 1-0 defeat, Saturday night in Reading.

Mason Jones made 33 saves while absorbing the loss in goal.

Corbin Scheibel led the Cougars with seven shots while Nolan Berner added five shots.

Samuel Libetti won five of six face-offs.

The Cougars applied pressure late in the game and threw five shots on net in a three-minute span late in the third period.

Misericordia went with an extra skater over the final two minutes and fired two shots on goal, but both were denied.