GRAND FORKS, N.D. – A late first period scoring barrage by No. 10 North Dakota left the Miami hockey team on the wrong end of a 7-1 score on Friday night.

The RedHawks (2-4-2, 0-1 National Collegiate Hockey) dropped its league opener and suffered its first road loss of the year.

North Dakota (6-1-1, 1-0 NCHC) opened with heavy pressure on the first couple shifts, but Ryan Larkin was equal to the task and made several quality stops to leave it scoreless.

The game settled down after the initial UND onslaught, though a penalty at the 6:16 mark by MU gave the Fighting Hawks the first power play of the evening. North Dakota did have one early opportunity as Ryan Larkin stopped Shane Pinto in the middle and Miami ended up killing it off.

Both teams settled into 5-on-5 play for awhile after that UND power play, but late in the frame MU was called for a pair of penalties 41 seconds apart. The Fighting Hawks capitalized as Jacob Bernard-Docker hit a one-timer inside the left post at the 14:14 mark and Jasper Weatherby redirected a centering feed into the top corner 1:19 later to make it 2-0 exclusively on power play tallies. Collin Adams made it a 3-0 contest later on to give the Fighting Hawks a 3-0 lead after 20 minutes.

The Fighting Hawks kept scoring early in the second with Dixon Bowen picking a corner on a breakaway at the 2:07 mark. Johnny Tychonick then put an exclamation point on things by scoring twice in 33 seconds.

Westin Michaud scored to make it a 7-0 game just over two minutes into the third and Noah Jordan got Miami on the board at the 2:57 mark to spoil the shutout bid and cap the scoring. Grant Frederic and Rourke Russell drew assists on the play.

North Dakota finished the night with a 28-22 shot advantage and went 2-for-4 on the power play while killing off both Miami power plays. Larkin finished with 12 saves in 25:35 while Valentine stopped nine shots the rest of the way.

Miami wraps up its series on Saturday with opening faceoff at 8:07 p.m.