Box Score
After entering the weekend mired in a four-game losing slump and then finding itself down 2-0 at the first intermission Friday night, the University of Minnesota Duluth had seen enough. The Bulldogs scored four times in an 11-minute span during the second period and then clinched a 5-4 National Collegiate Hockey Conference victory over Miami University with a shorthanded goal early in the third to commemorate their first-ever visit to Oxford, Ohio.

Junior center Caleb Herbert collected a pair of goals and rookie center Dominic Toninato, junior right winger Justin Crandall and Adam Krause all tallied once for UMD, which improved to 14-13-4 overall and 9-10-2-2 in the NCHC. Krause, a junior right winger, notched his first collegiate game-winner 69 seconds into the third period when, with the Bulldogs a man down and the game knotted at 4-4, he broke in all alone and fired a shot over RedHawk netminder Jay Williams. Krause and Crandall each added an assist in the victory, UMD's sixth in its last eight NCHC road games, while freshman left winger Kyle Osterberg helped set up three goals. The Bulldogs outshot Miami 27-17 over the final two periods and 33-24 on the night and got a 20-save outing from senior goaltender Aaron Crandall (12-9-3).

The two teams will meet again at 6:05 (CT) on Saturday in the Bulldogs' final regular season road appearance of 2013-14.

NOTES: The last time the Bulldogs scored four or more goals in a single period prior to tonight was on March 8, 2013 (four in the second period in a 5-4 home win over the University of Nebraska Omaha ... Junior Adam Krause now has two shorthanded goals to his collegiate credit -- the most of any active Bulldog ... Caleb Herbert's first 10 goals this season (including the first tally tonight) all came in even-strength situations. Herbert, who tops the 2013-14 Bulldogs in points with 28, scored on the power play at 12:10 of the second period to cap off UMD's four-goal outburst ... UMD is 10-6-1 overall and 7-4-0 against NCHC competition away from Duluth this season ... Four continues to be the magic goal number for the Bulldogs as UMD is unbeaten (37-0-5) in the last 42 games which it has scored four or more times.