ORONO, Maine — Junior left wing Josh Nadeau registered two goals and goalie Albin Boija made 22 saves as the University of Maine completed a non-conference sweep of Holy Cross with a 6-0 victory at Alfond Arena.

UMaine won Friday’s game 5-2 and is now 2-0 while Holy Cross fell to 0-3.

Nadeau’s two-goal game was his first since his freshman season, while Boija’s shutout was the seventh of the junior’s career.

Boija explained that he had extra motivation. A Crusader skated into him and knocked him down during pre-game warmups, something that had never happened to him before.

“He put his head down (and skated into me). The refs looked it over. I don’t want to blame him. He might not have been looking. I don’t know why he wouldn’t be looking when you are skating through a whole team of players,” said Boija. “He ran me full over… They got what they deserved.”

Freshman center Jaden Lipinski scored a first-period goal for the Black Bears before Nadeau scored twice in the second period. Nadeau’s second-period goals came 6:09 apart and extended UMaine’s lead to 3-0.

Senior left wing Thomas Freel, freshman right wing Miguel Marques and freshman center Oskar Komarov added third period goals for the Black Bears with Holt’s coming on the power play and Komarov’s being shorthanded.

Nadeau said the victory felt good. “Last year wasn’t the year that I wanted… Coming into this year, I just wanted to work hard and focus on the little details.” Nadeau had 10 goals and 19 assists a year ago after having 18 goals and 27 assists his freshman year. “When you work hard, good things happen.”

Brandon Chabrier and Max Scott assisted on Nadeau’s first goal. Nadeau stickhandled from left to right across the slot, allowing a screen to form in front of Holy Cross goalie Danick Leroux and then snapped a 20-foot wrist shot back across to the blocker side.

A pair of freshmen assisted on his second goal as defenseman Lukas Peterson flipped the puck to the net where it deflected off Justin Poirier over to Nadeau at the far post.

Leroux reached out to try to corral the puck but Nadeau beat him to it and backed up to create a better shooting angle before flipping it in from the tight angle.

Lipinski’s goal, his second in as many nights, came just 5:09 into the game and represented the only scoring in the first period. He carried the puck through the neutral zone and dished it to freshman defenseman Jeremy Langlois, who was breaking into the offensive zone on the left wing side.

Lipinski skated to the far post and received a perfect return pass from Langlois which he tucked into the short side from 10 feet out.

“That was a great pass from (Langlois),” said Lipinski.

In the third period, Freel got a piece of Brandon Holt’s shot from the point, Brandon Chabrier’s wrister deflected in off Marques, and Komarov scored with a wraparound.

Holy Cross freshman Leroux made 14 saves in his college debut.

Thirteen Black Bears had at least a goal or an assist.

The Black Bears killed off all five Holy Cross power plays.

“That was a hard game tonight,” said UMaine head coach Ben Barr. “We struggled with taking penalties in the first half. The penalty kill did a great job. Albin made some saves and we got a little momentum after that.

“It was a tougher game, especially for the younger guys, who struggled a little bit tonight. It’s a physical game, it’s a grind back-to-back (games). We had some guys step up. Josh Nadeau played really well, obviously, and Oskar Komarov’s line was great. Albin was great,” added Barr.

Komarov centers a line between fellow sophomore Thomas Pichette and freshman Will Gerrior.

UMaine will travel to Quinnipiac, Connecticut, for games on Friday night at 7 and Saturday at 4.

Holy Cross will begin defense of its Atlantic Hockey America regular season championship with a 3 p.m. game at Mercyhurst, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.