Austin Farley pretty much set the tone for the evening by scoring 72 seconds after the opening faceoff as he and his University of Minnesota Duluth teammates went on to topple Colorado College 5-0 Friday in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Farley added another goal -- giving the senior left winger a team-leading six on the year - and one assist for the No. 17 Bulldogs, who notched their first National Collegiate Hockey Conference victory of the season and ran their unbeaten against the winless Tigers to six games (5-0-1) dating back to the Oct. 19, 2013. Sophomore goaltender Kasimir Kaskisuo posted his third career shutout with a 19-save performance and is now 3-0-0 with a 1.31 goals against average in three lifetime starts against the Tigers.

UMD (4-5-3 overall; 1-3-1-1 NCHC) held a 1-0 lead before erupting for three goals in a span of 4:14 midway through the second period. Those even strength scores came from junior Willie Raskob, his blue line partner Carson Soucy, and senior left winger Charlie Sampair (the first goals of the season for both Soucy and Sampair). Farley capped off the scoring with a power play goal that was originally waved off, but awarded after video review with 12:24 to go in regulation. Besides Farley, the Bulldogs got multiple-point nights from Raskob and Soucy, who each had one assist, and senior center Tony Cameranesi (two assists). Cameranesi continues to pace the Bulldogs in scoring with 11 points while Farley is next with nine points, eight of which have been collected on the road.

Colorado College (0-11-0; 0-5-0-0 NCHC), was outshot 39-19 on the night and went 0-for-2 with the man advantage.

UMD, which elipsed the three-goal mark for the first time this year, will go for its second series sweep of the 2015-16 season Saturday evening when the two clubs meet again at the Broadmoor World Arena. Four the Bulldogs' five lifetime NCHC sweeps have been registered on the road -- St. Cloud State University (Nov. 7-8, 2014), Miami University (Feb. 28-March 1, 2014), Western Michigan University (Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 2014) and the University of Nebraska-Omaha (Jan. 10-11, 2014) -- with the other coming on Dec. 5-6, 2014 against Colorado College in Duluth.