It didn’t matter since senior forward Reed Lebster and freshman Kenny Connors went on an odd-man rush into the Denver zone halfway through the penalty kill. Lebster floated Connors’ cross-crease pass, but the freshman deflected it to score his first collegiate goal and make the score 1-0.
Just 1:21 later, sophomore defenseman Scott Morrow added a goal on a pass from classmate Ryan Lautenbach to give the Minutemen another advantage. With his first career goal in the second quarter of the first, freshman Tyson Dyck increased the UMass lead to three goals against the top team in the country.
