Kory Falite knows how to open a season in style.
The Billerica native scored a goal and set up two more to spark UMass-Lowell to a 3-0 win over St. Lawrence at the Ice Breakers Tournament in the college hockey hotbed of Omaha.
Senior Carter Hutton stopped 24 shots for his seventh career shutout. The River Hawks will face the winner of the Army/Nebraska-Omaha matchup in tonight’s championship game.
Maury Edwards opened the scoring before captain Ben Holmstron doubled the lead. Falite then capped the scoring with his third point of the night.
Colorado College 4, Northeastern 2 - Freshman Chris Rawlings stopped 27 shots but it wasn’t enough as the Tigers doubled up the Huskies in Colorado Springs.
Freshman Garrett Vermeersch and sophomore Alex Tuckerman scored for Northeastern.
North Dakota 5, Merrimack 2 - Five Fighting Sioux scored and Brad Eidsness stopped 15 Warrior shots in the opener for both teams at Grand Forks, N.D.
Joe Cannata stopped 34 shots for Merrimack.
Union 4, Maine 1 - The Dutchmen came out flying in the third period, scoring three unanswered goals to hand the Black Bears the loss in Schenectady, N.Y.
Maine’s Adam Shemansky scored his first collegiate goal at 16:29 of the second. John Wilson, Jeremy Walsh, Justin Pallos, and Stephane Boileau scored for Union.
Quinnipiac 3, Ohio St. 1 - Dan Clarke made a career-high 44 saves as the Bobcats completed a two-game sweep of the host Buckeyes.
BC 6, USA Under-18 3 - Freshman Chris Kreider scored twice and sophomore Cam Atkinson collected three points to lead the Eagles to the exhibition victory at Conte Forum.
Defenseman Tommy Cross tallied a goal and an assist and Joe and Steven Whitney also scored a goal each for BC.
