The goals were certainly in abundance Saturday night at AMSOIL Arena, where the University of Minnesota Duluth wrapped up the home portion of its regular season schedule.

UMD, which  came into the night having allowed just 1.90 goals per outing (the fifth best mark in the country), gave up five to National Collegiate Hockey Conference rival Miami University. The No. 3 Bulldogs, however, did the RedHawks one better and skated off with a 6-5 victory for their seventh series sweep of 2018-19. The Bulldogs, who are  21-9-2 on the year (14-7-1 in the NCHC), have now won six straight over the RedHawks and ran their unbeaten streak against them in Duluth to 13 games (12-0-1).

Junior defenseman Nick Wollf got UMD off to a rousing start by scoring twice in the opening 1:26 of play -- with both goals coming from shots near the left point. Miami cashed in on 5-on-3 man advantage opportunity four minutes later to cut the Bulldog lead to 2-1 and then scored again on ensuing power play to draw even. UMD junior left winger Riley Tufte and the RedHawks' Grant Hutton traded power play tallies before the high-octane first period finally came to a close. Sophomore defenseman Dylan Samberg put the Bulldogs up 4-3 with his sixth goal of the season 2:58 into the second period before Miami struck twice within a span of 1:47 to take its first lead of the night at 5:52 of that same period. With 20 seconds to go in the second, senior right winger Parker Mackay made it 4-4 by backhanding in a rebound.  Sophomore left winger Kobe Roth broke the deadlock -- and sealed the victory -- at 6:43 of the third period when a shot from senior right winger Billy Exell careened off of the leg of Miami defenseman Andrew Sinard to Roth, who,while crashing the net rapped a bouncing puck past RedHawk netminder Jordan Uhelski. 

Wolff, Samberg, Tufte, junior center Jade Miller (two assists) and sophomore defenseman Mikey Anderson (two assists) all turned in two-point nights for UMD, which held a sizable 39-19 shot advantage. The RedHawks (11-19-4 overall; 5-15-2-1 NCHC) went 3-for-5 on the power play, becoming the first opponent to score more than one man advantage goal on the Bulldogs in a game this season.

"It's like my good friend (and former North Dakota coaching colleague) Dean Blais said, 'as long as you win it,'" said UMD head coach Scott Sandelin. "You're going to be in some of these games just like the 1-0 ones. I just kept telling guys to stay with it because we hadn't been in one of these types of games all year. There was some nice goals by both teams, but I'm just glad that we were the ones that got the game winner."

UMD is at NCHC champion St. Cloud State University next Friday and Saturday for its 2018-19 regular season finales.