FRIDAY ROUNDUP: No. 4 Michigan State handles No. 2 Wisconsin 4-1, earns road sweep

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Trey Augustine made 30 saves in his 15th win of the season, helping Michigan State to a 4-1 decision and road sweep of Wisconsin (photo: Michigan State Athletics).

Trey Augustine made 30 saves and Danny Russell scored twice in No. 4 Michigan State’s 4-1 win over No. 2 Wisconsin, giving the Spartans a weekend road sweep of the Badgers and propelling Michigan State into second place in the Big Ten standings.

Russell’s shorthanded goal at 8:34 in the first put the Spartans ahead 2-0 and held up as the game-winner.

By late in the second period, the Spartans had run up a 4-0 lead on the Badgers with goals by Shane Vansaghi and Anthony Romani sandwiching the two by Russell. Ryker Lee had assists on Vansaghi’s goal and on Russell’s second, scored on the power play in the first.

Logan Hensler scored Wisconsin’s only goal with less than a minute left in regulation. Eli Pulver started in the Badgers’ net, surrendering the first three goals before Daniel Hauser entered the game. Hauser made 15 saves on 16 shots.

Michigan State entered the weekend in fourth place in the Big Ten standings, five points behind second-place Wisconsin. The Spartans beat the Badgers, 4-3, Thursday night.

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No. 1 Michigan 5, Minnesota 1

Five different Wolverines scored in a defensively dominant road performance against Minnesota, beating the Golden Gophers 5-1 in 3M Arena at Mariucci.

Michael Hage had the game-winning goal at 9:03 in the second period.

Michigan outshot Minnesota 52-18, limiting the Gophers to fewer than 10 shots in each period. Only T.J. Hughes led the Wolverines with a goal and an assist. Tanner Ludtke had the goal for Minnesota.

Luca Di Pasquo made 47 saves in Minnesota’s net. Stephen Peck stopped 17 in the win for Michigan, his second of the season.

No. 5 North Dakota 5, Denver 0

Jan Špunar turned made 18 saves and Anthony Menghini scored twice in North Dakota’s 5-0 win over visiting Denver.

Ellis Rickwood scored the game-winning goal when the game was a little over a minute old, a flukey goal that bounced in off of Pioneer Kent Anderson’s stick as he tried to clear the puck that Rickwood had just shot.

The win was the 12th of the season for Špunar and the freshman’s third career shutout. Quentin Miller played the first two periods in net for Denver, giving up for goals on 20 shots. Johnny Hicks stopped 15-of-16 for the Pioneers in the third.

The win creates even more distance for the Fighting Hawks at the top of the NCHC standings. With 32 points, North Dakota is eight points ahead of second-place Denver.

St. Cloud State 6, No. 6 Minnesota Duluth 0

Tyson Gross had two goals and an assist and Yan Shostak made 42 saves in his fifth win of the season and second shutout as St. Cloud State blanked visiting Minnesota Duluth, 6-0.

Noah Urness’s goal at 6:13 in the first was the game-winner, his fourth GWG of the season.

Austin Burnevik and Finn Loftus each had a goal plus an assist, and Max Smolinski had two helpers for the Huskies. Adam Gajan stopped 20-of-25 for Duluth.

No. 7 Quinnipiac 5, Colgate 1

Braden Blace and Tyler Borgula scored one apiece with two helpers each as Quinnipiac cruised past Colgate, 5-1.

Borgula’s goal to make it 2-0 at 10:18 in the first was the eventual game-winner.

Trailing 5-0 late in the third, Colgate’s goal came from Isaiah Norlin on the power play.

Dylan Silverstein saved 22-of-23 in his fifth win of the season. Reid Dyck stopped 13-of-17 in the first period for Colgate. In the final two periods, Andrew Takacs made 13 saves for the Raiders.

No. 8 Penn State 4, Notre Dame 1

Matt DiMarsico scored twice on the power play and added an empty-net goal for his third hat trick of the season in Penn State’s 4-1 win over visiting Notre Dame.

DiMarsico’s two power-play goals came late in the first and early in the second to give the Nittany Lions a 2-0 lead before Evan Werner scored for Notre Dame midway through the second to cut that lead in half. Luke Misa’s goal late in the second made it 3-1 after two.

The first four goals of the game were scored on the power play. DeMarsico’s third goal came in the final two minutes of the game.

Joshua Fleming had 41 saves in the win. For Notre Dame, Nicholas Kempf stopped 39-of-42.

No. 10 Dartmouth 2, Clarkson 2 (F/OT, Dartmouth wins shootout)

Clarkson and Dartmouth skated to a 2-2 tie with the Big Green earning the extra shootout point in Thompson Arena.

Dartmouth’s Hayden Stavroff had the game-tying goal at 5:42 in the third period.

Jack Silverberg gave the Big Green a 1-0 lead after scoring 1:04 into the first period and led all scorers with a goal and an assist. Tristan Sarsland and Rémi Gélinas scored for the Golden Knights in the second.

Clarkson outshot Dartmouth 32-21 through 65 minutes of play. Shane Soderwall made 19 saves for the Golden Knights through regulation and overtime. Emmett Croteau stopped 30.

No. 14 Providence 4, No. 12 Boston College 3 (OT)

Trailing 3-2 after two periods of play, Boston College tied Providence on Will Moore’s goal midway through the third, but Logan Sawyer scored the game-winning goal for the Friars at 1:02 in overtime to give Providence the road win.

Three of Providence’s four goals were unassisted, Moore’s game winner and first-period goals scored by Clint Levens and Aleksi Kivioja.

Boston College outshot Providence 46-19, and Jack Parsons made 43 saves in his fourth win of the season. Louka Cloutier stopped 15 for the Eagles.

Michigan Tech 3, No. 17 Minnesota State 1

Carson Birnie broke a 1-1 deadlock at 13:44 in the third period to lift Michigan Tech ahead of Minnesota State en route to a 3-1 win in MacInnes Arena. The win puts the Huskies three points ahead of the Mavericks in the CCHA standings, breaking a tie for third place between the teams.

Jordan Ronn put the Mavericks on the scoreboard early in the first, but the Huskies scored three unanswered, starting with Max Koskipirtti’s at 10:17 in the second. Carson Latimer capped the scoring with and empty-net goal.

Owen Bartoszkiewicz stopped 24-of-25 shots in the win. Alex Tracy had 26 saves for Minnesota State.

UMass Lowell 4, No. 20 Boston University 3 (OT)

UMass Lowell scored three times in the second and once in overtime to beat Boston University, 4-3, in Agganis Arena.

Two minutes into OT, it was Nate Misskey from Jak Vaarwerk for the game-winning goal.

The goal was the first game-winner for Misskey. Vaarwerk led Lowell with a goal and an assist.

Jack Harvey had two goals for Boston University, including the shorthander that tied the game 6:47 in the third.

Mikhail Yegorov played the first 40 minutes for the Terriers, giving up those three second-period goals on 21 shots. In relief, Max Lacriox stopped 7-of-8 in 22 minutes of play. Samuel Richard had 31 saves on 34 shots for the UMass Lowell win.

Sacred Heart 3, Bentley 2

Coming from behind in the third period on goals from Felix Trudeau and John Driscoll, Sacred Heart beat Bentley at home, 3-2, giving the Falcons just their second Atlantic Hockey loss of the season.

Driscoll’s game-winning goal at 17:59 in the third was his second tally of the season and the senior’s first career game-winner.

The game was tied 1-1 after the first when Sacred Heart’s Noah Ellis and Bentley’s Jake Black each scored within the final two minutes of the period. Bentley led 2-1 going into the third on Michael Mesic’s goal.

Shots on goal were tied at 33 apiece. For the Falcons, Lukas Swedin made 30 saves. Teagan Kendrick had 31 saves in the win for Sacred Heart.