BIDDEFORD, Maine—Seven different Beacons scored, led by junior Zach Lindsay's (Egg Harbor Township, N.J.) career-high two goals, to help #10/10 men's hockey breeze past host University of New England 8-3 Friday night at the Alfond Forum.

THE BASICS

#10/10 UMass Boston 8, University of New England 3

(UMass Boston 5-0-0, New England Hockey Conference 3-0-0)

(University of New England 1-3-1, New England Hockey Conference 1-3-0) 

HOW IT HAPPENED 

UMass Boston jumped out to leads of 1-0, 3-1 and 5-2, en-route to the program's seventh win in seven tries in Biddeford.

Senior Matt Lemire (Townsend, Mass.) paced the Beacons attack with a goal and three assists, while Lindsay recorded his second and third collegiate goals, in his sixth collegiate game. 

Freshman Drew Gannon (Plano, Texas) and David MacGregor (Azusa, Calif.) each scored their first collegiate goals for the Beacons, as UMass Boston outscored the Nor'Easters 3-0 in the final stanza. 

Junior Tyler Bishop (Ramsay, N.J.), sophomore Colin Larkin (Waterford, Mass.) and freshman Garrison Sanipass (Northbrook, Ill.) also scored for UMass Boston, who reached 5-0-0 for the second-straight season. The 5-0-0 mark is the second-best start in program history, behind only the 14-15 team's 10-0-0 start to the season. 

In net, Billy Faust (Alta Loma, Calif.) stopped a season-high 33 shots, including all 13 shots he faced in the third.

Ryan Quinn, Dylan Bengston and Armand Uomoleale all scored for the hosts, who dropped their third-consecutive contest. 

The Nor'Easters totaled 35 saves, with freshman Joe Noonan stopping 23 of 28 shots through the first 45 minutes, before being replaced by Mason Riley.

UMass Boston and the University of New England went back-and-forth in the opening stanza, with the two teams combining for five goals.

Sanipass gave the Beacons a 1-0 lead at 2:07, only to have Quinn respond at 3:52 to even the game at 1-1. Twenty-seven seconds later Lemire gave the Beacons the lead for good at 4:19, and Lindsay tacked on a third Beacons' goal at 15:04 to make it 3-1. Bengston would close out the first period, with a tally at 18:28, to send the two teams into the break separated by a single goal. 

UMass Boston came out of the intermission red-hot, as Bishop needed just 41 seconds to score the eventual game-winner. Lindsay added his second goal of the game to make it 5-2 at 3:20, but Uomoleale would cut the Nor'Easters deficit to 5-3 before the end of the period.

Despite being outshot in the third (13-11), UMass Boston dominated the scoreboard by a 3-0 advantage. Larkin scored at 3:09 and Gannon made it 7-3 with a goal at 5:16. The Beacons capped off the scoring at 15:24, when MacGregor scored his first collegiate goal.

BY THE NUMBERS

• UMass Boston outshot the Nor'Easters 43-36 in the contest.
• The Beacons finished 1-for-3 on the power-play and held the Nor'Easters to an 0-for-4 mark.
• Senior Connor McStravick (Philadelphia, Pa.) made his return to the lineup and recorded two assists.
• With the win, UMass Boston improved to 17-0-1 all-time against the Nor'Easters.
• Junior defenseman Brett Mason (Rowley, Mass.) and Bishop each finished +5 in the win. 
• UMass Boston has won 10-consecutive ECAC East/Northeast Hockey Conference regular season games dating back to last January.

WHO'S NEXT

UMass Boston will look for the weekend sweep, when the Beacons travel to the University of Southern Maine for a 4 p.m. conference showdown.