Mercuri later doubled the lead for the Minutemen, collecting a pass from junior Scott Morrow and Lautenbach alone in front and sliding the puck under Vermont netminder Gabe Carriere 7:10 into the third.
Mercuri faked a shot and instead dished the puck to Lautenbach for the finish for his team-leading fifth goal of the season at the 17:22 mark. As it appeared that the teams would head to the locker rooms for the second intermission still in a scoreless deadlock, sophomore Michael Cameron won a neutral zone battle and set up juniors Lucas Mercuri and Ryan Lautenbach with a 2-on-1. On Friday, UMass scored late in the second and added three more goals in the third to help the squad open its weekend series with a 4-1 win over Vermont at the Mullins Center on Friday night. 14 University of Massachusetts hockey split its home weekend against Vermont, winning Friday's matchup, 4-1, before dropping the Saturday contest, 6-2.
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