By Patrick Donnelly<\/i><\/p>\n
AMHERST, Mass. \u2014 Junior defenseman Case McCarthy scored the overtime game-winner as the Boston University Terriers won 4-3 against the University of Massachusetts Minutemen at the Mullins Center on Saturday. <\/span><\/p>\n “All in all, it was really good weekend for us,” BU head coach Albie O’Connell said. “I thought we were the better team tonight, and I thought we were the better team last night… We didn’t give [UMass] a lot… I’m pretty happy with the way our team played defense, and obviously we’ve got some special players that can make big plays at the right time.”<\/p>\n The Terriers and Minutemen tied at Agganis Arena on Friday, with UMass taking the extra point in the shootout. The Terriers had been without a win in five games.<\/span><\/p>\n “That was pretty big,” McCarthy said. “It was our first win in a little bit, and it felt good coming on the road. It was a big weekend for us, and that was a good way to cap it off.”<\/p>\n Junior forward Jay O\u2019Brien had a goal and an assist, and junior forward Robert Mastrosimone and junior defenseman Dom Fensore had two assists. Junior forward Wilmer Skoog and freshman defenseman Ty Gallagher scored for BU (4-7-1, 3-4-1 HE). Sophomore goaltender Drew Commesso made 20 saves.<\/p>\n Freshman Ryan Ufko had a goal and two assists for UMass (6-3-1, 4-1-1 HE), and senior captain Bobby Trovigno had a goal and an assist. Junior defenseman Matt Kessel scored, and graduate goaltender Matt Murray made 25 saves.<\/p>\n O\u2019Brien scored<\/a> at 18:01 of the first to give BU a 1-0 lead. Fensore rushed the puck into the offensive zone and drop-passed to O\u2019Brien, who shot from the high slot. Returning from injury, O’Brien suited up this weekend for his first action in since the season-opening series against UConn.<\/p>\n “[O’Brien] was awesome,” O’Connell said. “When you have one of your best players out of the lineup for eight games, it’s hard… He was great. He was competitive and scored a huge goal tonight… We’ve had a lot of injuries, and I continue to give our guys credit.”<\/p>\n Skoog doubled<\/a> the Terriers’ lead at 9:49 of the second on the power play, redirecting O\u2019Brien\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n Kessel answered for UMass at 11:01 with a shot from the point through traffic in front, and Trovigno scored<\/a> with 34 seconds remaining in the second on the power play to tie it 2-2 with a one-timer from a shop angle.<\/p>\n Ufko made it 3-2<\/a> for the Minutemen at 5:12 with his first collegiate goal on a shorthanded breakaway, finishing a backhand-forehand move.<\/p>\n “We weren’t really too worried on the bench [when Ufko scored], to be honest,” O’Connell said. “[UMass] had a seven-minute stretch where they were really pushing hard, and we kind of weathered some of it. It’s always nice to bounce back and get a goal when when another team scores, but we were fully confident on our bench that we were gonna score at some point.”<\/p>\n 1:28 later, Gallagher tied<\/a> it 3-3 at 6:30 as he got to the puck first after a net-front scrum.<\/p>\n