GRAND FORKS, N.D. – No. 20 Colorado College struck four times in the third to break a 2-2 tie and defeat No. 16 North Dakota, 6-4, on Friday night from a sold-out Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, N.D.
 
UND (13-11-2, 8-6-1 NCHC) kept battling back over the final 20 minutes, cutting the deficit to one with an extra attacker on a pair of occasions, but the Tigers (14-12-1, 8-8-1 NCHC) were always able to get that next goal to notch their fifth straight win over North Dakota dating back to last season.
 
Dylan James had his best night as a Fighting Hawk, striking for a pair of goals and two assists to give him a career-best four points. The junior notched his fourth multi-goal game of his career and factored into all four goals by the hosts.
 
Sophomore defenseman Jake Livanavage also matched his career high with three points on a goal and two helpers while senior forward Cameron Berg dished out two assists for his sixth multi-point game of the season in just 14 appearances.
 
Sophomore goaltender Hobie Hedquist made his second straight start and finished with 19 saves to drop to 3-4-0 on the season.
 
Despite another strong start by NoDak, it was the visitors who got on the board first on a power play goal from Klavs Veinbergs to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead near the midway point of the opening period. That looked to be the score heading into the intermission, but Jayden Perron wired home a nice feed from Livanavage to knot the contest at 1-1 with 21 seconds remaining in the first.
 
UND took hold of the momentum in the middle stanza and grabbed its first lead of the game just over three minutes in when Ben Strinden forced a turnover in the neutral zone and started an odd man rush that ended with James pounding home a rebound to make it 2-1.
 
The Hawks surrendered only three shots in the second, but it was CC who struck late in the frame off a rush of its own to tie the game at 2-2 after two periods.
 
In the third, the two sides combined for six goals over the final 7:25 of regulation to turn the low scoring, defensive affair into a wild one.
 
Veinbergs scored his second of the game to give CC the lead with another power play tally before the Tigers quickly doubled the advantage when a centering puck deflected off a UND player and into the net to make it 4-2 for the visitors with just over seven minutes to play.
 
UND pulled one back with the goaltender pulled, as Livanavage's shot somehow found its way into the net to trim the deficit to 4-3, but CC responded right back on a Noah Laba deflection in front to extend the lead right back to two.
 
With the goaltender pulled again, James notched his second goal and fourth point of the night on a loose puck in the slot to cut the lead back down to one at 5-4, but the Tigers held off the push in the final minute and added a final empty netter to seal the 6-4 victory.
 
North Dakota will look for the series split on Saturday night at 6:07 p.m. from the Ralph. Fans can catch the contest on Midco Sports, NCHC.tv and the Fighting Hawks Radio Network.
 
Postgame Notes 

• North Dakota drops to 173-89-12 all-time against Colorado College and 111-25-7 at home
• The Hawks have lost five straight games to CC and are winless in the last six (0-5-1)
• NoDak drops to 2-5-0 this season at home in NCHC games and have lost three straight
• UND dropped to fifth in the NCHC standings with 25 points and to 27th in the Pairwise Rankings
• Dylan James struck for a career-high four points (2G, 2A) and his fourth-career game with multiple goals
• The junior has 11 points (5G, 6A) over his last eight games and now has a season-high 10 goals
• Jake Livanavage had his second three-point game of his career and season (Nov. 8, 2024 at UMD)
• Cameron Berg has six multi-point games this season in just 14 contests
• Jayden Perron scored his ninth goal of the year and sixth over the last 11 games
• The sophomore also left Friday's game with an injury and did not return
• UND went 0-for-2 on the power play while CC was 2-for-5
• NoDak drops to 10-1-0 this season when scoring at least four goals
• The Hawks are also 6-10-0 this year against ranked teams
• Shots were 25-22 CC
• UND allowed the first goal for the fourth straight game and are 3-9-2 this season when allowing the first
• Faceoffs were 41-26 CC, with Carter Wilkie pacing UND at 8-8

How It Happened 

First Period                                                     
08:02 | CC – Klavs Veinbergs (6, PP) from Gavin Lindberg (4) and Max Burkholder (14)
19:39 | UND – Jayden Perron (9) from Jake Livanavage (17) and Dylan James (7)

Second Period 
03:03 | UND – James (9) from Cameron Berg (6) and Ben Strinden (5)
16:45 | CC – Gleb Veremyev (8) from Bret Link (9) and Veinbergs (7)

Third Period 
12:35 | CC – Veinbergs (7, PP) from Philippe Blais-Savoie (6) and Owen Beckner (14)
12:49 | CC – Stanley Cooley (5) from Tommy Middleton (2) and Burkholder (15)
15:08 | UND – Livanavage (3, EA) from Berg (7) and James (8)
17:00 | CC – Noah Laba (8) from Ty Gallagher (15) and Blais-Savoie (7)
18:35 | UND – James (10, EA) from Sacha Boisvert (11) and Livanavage (18)
19:30 | CC – Gallagher (6, EN)


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