DENVER – The No.1 University of Denver hockey team beat the Lindenwood Lions 4-1 on Saturday night at Magness Arena to wrap up the program's 75th Anniversary Weekend.
 
DU swept the non-conference weekend series against LU (2-7-1) after also winning by a 4-1 score on Friday. The Pioneers improved to 10-0-0 on the season, setting a program record for the longest winning streak to begin a campaign. The previous mark of nine straight victories to start a season came in 2001-02.
 
Sophomore Sam Harris scored two goals in the third period and netted the game-winning tally with 14:41 left. He now takes over the team and national lead in goals with nine in nine games played.
 
Juniors Rieger Lorenz and Aidan Thompson also scored for Denver. Senior goaltender Matt Davis secured the win by saving 17 out of 18 shots sent his way.  
 
As part of its 75th Anniversary celebration, Denver honored approximately 150 former players on the ice in an extended first intermission. The current Pioneer players and staff remained on the bench during the recognition, which included the alumni presenting the program's NCAA-record 10 national championship trophies to the sold-out crowd of 6,582.
 
Lorenz opened the scoring with his second goal of the series at 11:11 of the first period. Sophomore Eric Pohlkamp received the assist and extended his career-long point streak to nine games.
 
Lindenwood tied the score in the middle period with a goal from Tyler Loughman, but Harris put the Pioneers back in front with a tip-in off a shot by Cale Ashcroft 5:18 into the final stanza.
 
Harris advanced the score for Denver to 3-1 less than six minutes later off a pass from freshman James Reeder, who extended his point streak to six straight contents. Thompson recorded his eighth goal of the season with 2:20 left in the game to put DU into a comfortable position on the scoreboard. 
 
Senior captain Carter King played in his 125th career game with the Pios and had an assist on Thompson's tally.
 
Lindenwood goalie Owen Bartoszkiewicz saved 19-of-23 shots in the loss.
 
UP NEXT: Denver opens conference play next weekend with a two-game series at No. 10 North Dakota. Friday's game begins at 6 p.m. MT and will be available in Canada on TSN 3. Saturday's start time is 5 p.m. MT, and it will be televised regionally in Colorado on Altitude. Both contests will also be broadcast on NCHC.tv
 
 
POSTGAME NOTES

• DU improved to 4-0-0 all-time against Lindenwood, as the teams were meeting in their second-ever series and first since the middle of the 2022-23 season.
• Senior captain Carter King was playing in his 125th career game.
• Sam Harris recorded his fifth career multi-goal game of his career and second of the season, as he also tallied twice on Oct. 5 at Alaska Anchorage. Harris extended his career-long point streak to seven games (7g/4a).
• Both of Harris' markers came in the third period, marking the first time this season that a player tallied twice in the same frame.
• Aidan Thompson and Carter King have points in each of the first 10 games of the year.
• Peter LaJoy made his collegiate debut.
• Eric Pohlkamp stretched his career-long point streak to nine games. 

 
GOAL SUMMARY
1st Period
11:11 DU (1-0) – Eric Pohlkamp ripped a shot that went off the net's iron and right to the stick of Rieger Lorenz, who shot the puck into an open net.
 
2nd Period
12:21 LU (1-1) – Tyler Loughman hit twine on a wrist shot from the top of the right circle.
 
3rd Period
5:18 DU (2-1) – Cale Ashcroft shot the puck toward the net and Sam Harris redirected the puck past the goalie and in.
11:07 DU (3-1) – Sam Harris took a feed from James Reeder and tallied on a wrist shot.
17:40 DU (4-1) – PPG, Aidan Thompson connected off passes by Jack Devine and Carter King.
 

QUOTABLES
Richard and Kitzia Goodman Hockey Head Coach David Carle
On the 75th Anniversary Weekend: "I think it's great. First intermission we honor all of them (alumni), and the pregame reception and the alumni game earlier today was excellent, and so cool to see them, you know, running through the locker room, as well with their families and all of that. I think for us, we really try and reflect upon their history a lot. For our guys, to see that, it's one of the cooler moments they'll have in their time here is being a part of that first-period intermission ceremony."
 
On the team in the third period: "I think we didn't get frustrated, I didn't think. We had a really good second period. Obviously, we didn't get rewarded. We were up 1-0 in the second and then we ended the period 1-1. That's our first time where we've been really challenged, like going into the third, where we don't have a lead or we weren't getting rewarded. So, for us, like mentally just sticking with our gameplan and being mature about it. I thought that was really good. We got three goals and then pulled away to make it a comfortable victory on the scoreboard." 
 
Sophomore Forward Sam Harris
On the 75th anniversary ceremony: "It was real special seeing the guys that came before us who were here now. The rich tradition this program has is really special to see"
 
On facing North Dakota next weekend: "It's going to be a tough weekend. It's going to be a big test for our group, but I'm looking forward to it and just going to play harder than them."
 
On the team's success during the 10-game win streak: "Sticking true to our process, working hard, coming into the rink with a grit attitude every day. Leaning on each other when we need help and anything like that, like younger guys coming up to the older guys and everybody's communicating, so it's been a really good culture here."

Sophie Hamill contributed to this story.
 

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