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UMass Lowell completes Hockey East sweep of Vermont with 3-0 win
The UMass Lowell hockey team was a happy bunch heading south on Route 89 after sweeping Vermont on Saturday night.
The River Hawks skated to a 3-0 Hockey East win as goaltender Henry Welsch notched the shutout with a 20-goal effort.
Red-hot UML (8-2, 4-1 HE) is now 5-0 on the road and rolling after outscoring the Catamounts by a combined 8-2 at Gutterson Fieldhouse over the weekend.
Ranked 15th in the USCHO.com poll, the River Hawks are likely to move up after earning the sweep.
Scoring a goal each were Matt Crasa (No. 2 of season), Scout Truman (No. 5) and Dillan Bentley (No. 4).
Bentley and Crasa added an assist each. Other assists were earned by Libor Nemec, Jak Vaarwerk and TJ Schweighardt. The River Hawks scored a goal in each period.
Crasa gave UML a 1-0 lead at 15:08 of the first period. During a scrum in front of the Vermont goal, Crasa located the puck and slipped home a backhanded shot.
In the second period, Truman doubled UML’s lead. Vaarwerk made a nifty pass inside his own blue line to spring Truman, who skated in on a 2-on-1 break with defenseman Ben Meehan. Truman held the puck and uncorked a low wrist shot into the bottom right corner of the net.
Bentley pocked his second goal of the weekend to cap the scoring in the third. Crasa dished the puck ahead to Bentley, who broke into the Vermont zone and, with a Catamount defender in front of him, he ripped a wrist shot which found the back of the net.
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