Dallas — Canaan native and former Cardigan Mountain School skater Gavin Bayreuther signed a free-agent contract to join the NHL’s Dallas Stars on Wednesday, according to a news release from the team.

A defenseman, Bayreuther recently completed his college hockey career at St. Lawrence, leading the Saints with 21 assist and 29 points in 30 games as a senior. Undrafted out of college, Bayreuther was free to sign with any NHL team he chose once he finished his college eligibility.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed by the Stars.

“Head coach Mark Morris and his staff at St. Lawrence University have done a tremendous job developing Gavin’s game,” Dallas general manager Jim Nill said in the release. “Gavin is a smart player with a great hockey sense who is able to create offense from the back end, and we look forward to him continuing his development at the professional level.”

Bayreuther showed a flair of rushing the puck during his four years at St. Lawrence. He finished with 35 goals, 76 assists and 111 points in 142 career games with the Saints, while this season’s totals ranked him third in the nation in points per game (0.97) among blueliners.

Bayreuther shared the ECAC rookie of the year award as a freshman. He earned first-team all-ECAC honors, a spot on the ECAC all-tournament team and second-team All-America recognition after his junior season.

According to a team release, Bayreuther’s entry-level contract with the NHL club will go into effect next season. For the time being, he’ll report to the team’s AHL Texas Stars affiliate, having signed an amateur tryout contract with them on Wednesday. The 6-foot-1, 195-pound defenseman was expected to join the team in time for two games in Cleveland this weekend.

Dartmouth Senior Honored

Lake Placid, n.y. — Dartmouth senior forward Troy Crema has named to 2017 All-ECAC Hockey third team, the league office announced on Friday.

Crema earned the distinction after leading the team with 17 goals, the first Dartmouth player in seven years to reach that mark, and 29 points.

Nordic Skiing

Raiders at MOC

Andover, n.h. — Lebanon’s Jacob Willeman and Eli Weitzman finished 8-9 in the boys freestyle to highlight Lebanon’s participation in Wednesday’s NHIAA Meet of Champions at Proctor Academy.

Concord’s Cam Brochu won the boys freestyle in 12 minutes, 12.1 seconds. Willeman checked in with a time of 13:16.8, and Weitzman was right behind in 13:18.1.

The two also finished back-to-back in the classic race, Willeman 16th in 11:21.5 and Weitzman 17th in 11:23.6. The Raiders’ Owen Johnstone also raced the classic, taking 23rd place in 11:37.2. Gilford’s Mark Young won in 9:40.1.

Celia Barnett was the only Raider in the girls races, finishing 29th in the classic (15:40.4) and 21st in the freestyle (15:52.2).

White Mountains’ Hallie Chancey (12:22.2) won the classic, with Bedford’s Abigail Vikstrom (13:55.2) prevailing in the freestyle.

College Softball

DePaul 6, Dartmouth 2Cal Poly 10, Dart. 0 (4½)

Los Angeles— Dartmouth (0-10-1) was swept in the opening two games of the LMU Tournament.

The Big Green’s Breanna Ethridge allowed five hits over six innings with six strikeouts in game one against DePaul (12-8), which got a homer from Nicole Pihl.

Alyssa Jorgensen had Dartmouth’s only hit in game two, as Lindsey Chalmers struck out 17 Big Green batters for the Mustangs (20-7).

College Baseball

The Citadel 5, Dartmouth 3

Charleston, s.c. — Dartmouth scored twice in the eighth and had the tying run on second in each of the final two frames, but could not complete the comeback as The Citadel (6-11) hung on to defeat the Big Green (5-3).

Bulldogs left-hander J.P. Sears (3-1) threw 127 pitches over seven innings. Sears, who entered the game with a 2.05 ERA and 13.5 strikeouts per nine innings, allowed two runs on seven hits and a pair of walks to go with four strikeouts to earn the victory.

Jack Fossand (0-1) took the loss for Dartmouth. He allowed six hits and four runs over 3⅔ innings. Matt Feinstein and Dustin Shirley had two hits apiece for the Big Green.

Men’s College Track

Big Green in First

High Point, n.c. — The Dartmouth men are in first place after the first full day at High Point’s Bob Davidson Spring Kick-Off at Dick Vert Stadium.

Making its outdoor debut, the Big Green has 67 points with 11 events scored, 23 points up on second-place Monmouth.

The Bob Davidson Kick-Off Spring Classic concludes Saturday (March 18) with field events starting at 9 a.m. and the track events slated to begin at noon.