MINOT, N.D. – The Beavers looked anything but road-weary Monday night at the Maysa Arena.

Playing their third game in four days, and after a weekend road-trip to Nebraska, the top-ranked Minot State hockey team dominated early, broke the game open with a second-period offensive onslaught, and skated to a 7-0 win at home over visiting Colorado State.

Carter Barley picked up his fourth career hat trick, and second of the season, scoring three goals in the win while Landyn Cochrane added two goals and three assists for the Beavers (18-1-0 overall), who hit the road now to play Illinois State, Central Oklahoma, and Oklahoma on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Central Oklahoma Classic.

Jake Anthony stopped all 21 shots he faced in goal for Minot State, earning his third shutout this season and the sixth of his career.

Cochrane ended up with the game-winner, scoring the first goal of the night just 1 minute, 22 seconds into the contest, and the Beavers never let up.

Reece Henry added a first-period goal for 2-0 lead, then Minot State blew the game open in the second as Jay Buchholz scored with 9:21 gone in the stanza, then Cochrane made it 4-0 at the 12:30 mark.

Barley then scored his first two of the game before the end of the period, just 30 seconds apart, for a comfortable 6-0 lead.

Barley then finished career hat-trick No. 4 with the game's final goal with 4:48 remaining in the Beavers win.