Box Score DENVER - Sophomore Joe Colborne (Calgary, Alberta) continued his torrid point streak with his first career hat trick and junior goaltende Marc Cheverie (Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia) stopped 32 shots as No. 2 Denver swept Minnesota with a 5-1 win tonight before a sellout crowd of 6,088 at Magness Arena. The win completes DU's first four-game, season-series sweep against Minnesota in school history.

Anthony Maiani (Shelby Township, Mich.) and Brian Gifford (Moorhead, Minn.) also scored as Denver (20-6-4, 14-4-4 WCHA) extended its winning streak to six games. DU also took over first place in the WCHA with 32 points. Minnesota falls to 13-15-2, 8-12-2.

"We played our best Saturday night game this season," DU head coach George Gwozdecky said. "Colborne and Maiani had great games, and it was certainly an all-around team effort tonight."

Colborne has 10 goals and eight assists during his career-best, 12-game point streak. He scored two power-play goals and added his second career shorthanded effort. Maiani continued his strong play with the game-winning goal and Gifford scored his first goal of the season.

Colborne lit the lamp first at 18:58 of the first period on the power play. Rhett Rakhshani (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Patrick Wiercioch (Maple Ridge, British Columbia) earned assists on DU's first goal.

Maiani beat Kent Patterson (28 saves) from the goal line at 1:07 of the second period to give DU a 2-0 advantage and Colborne made it 3-0 when he buried a nifty cross-ice feed from Rakhshani at 12:39.

Colborne completed his three-goal night with an unassisted shorthanded goal at 2:16 of the third period and Gifford scored at 17:21. Tony Lucia scored Minnesota's lone goal on the power play at 19:21. Wiercioch and Rakhshani each had two assists in the win.

Each team had 33 shots on goal. DU went 3-for-9 on the power play, while Minnesota was 1-for-7.

DU hosts Michigan Tech on Feb. 19-20.

Notes: DU is second in the latest PairWise Rankings. DU sweeps four-game series' against Minnesota and North Dakota in the same season for the first time in school history. Rakhshani has a five-game point streak. Jesse Martin (Calgary, Alberta) missed his fifth-straight game with an upper body injury.

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