Bowling Green, Ohio --- 16^th-rated Minnesota State owned a 1-0 lead after the first period play and never trailed in rolling to a 6-2 win at Bowling Green in Central Collegiate Hockey Association action in Bowling Green, Ohio, Saturday. 
 
Now 10-7-1 for the season with tonight's result, Minnesota State stands 7-4-1 in CCHA games.  Bowling Green drops to 8-10-0 overall, 7-7-0 CCHA. 
 
Senior defenseman Andy Carroll gave the visiting Mavericks a 1-0 advantage when he jumped up on the play, collected the puck in the neutral zone and went backhand-forehand before sliding the puck unde Christian Stoever's pads at 10:26 of the opening period. 
 
The Mavericks broke the game open in the second period, outscoring the Falcons 4-1.   
 
Freshman forward Christian Fitzgerald scored twice in the period, once in the beginning and once near the end.  His first goal (and fourth of the season) came off the rush at 9:11. BGSU's Austen Swankler got a power play marker at 14:36 in making it 2-1 game, but freshman forward Adam Eisele cashed in a rebound chance at 15:29 for his third goal of the season. Fitzgerald's rising shot high on Stoever's stickside at 17:08 gave the Mavericks a 4-1 edge and Will Hillman's tally at 18:02 closed out the middle-period onslaught.   
 
Hillman scored again at 6:23 of the third off a nice backhand feed from behind the goal line from Cade Borchardt. And BGSU tallied the last goal of the game with a Nathan Burke power play marker with two seconds left in the game. 
 
The Mavericks outshot the Falcons by a 39-19 margin in the contest and Minnesota State freshman netminder Alex Tracy, who finished with 17 stops, ups his record on the season to 6-1-0. 
 
Minnesota State continues CCHA action next weekend with Bemidji State visiting Mankato for a pair of games scheduled for Thursday and Friday. 
 
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