Friday's game at Merrimack College turned into a long night for the Clarkson University Hockey team, which dropped its first road game of the season, 7-1, to the Warriors in North Andover, MA.

The Golden Knights, who stand at 2-1, will complete their opening weekend on the road against Hockey East foes with Saturday's 7:00 p.m. game at the University of New Hampshire.

After starting the 2015-16 campaign with an impressive sweep at Cheel Arena last weekend, the Green and Gold came out strong against Merrimack.

The Knights dominated the majority of the opening stanza, out shooting Merrimack 14-5, but needed a late goal to force a tie after the opening 20 minutes. The Warriors took the initial lead with Ben Bahe's goal at 16:18, but with 39 seconds remaining in the period, Clarkson's senior captain Paul Geiger intercepted a Merrimack clearing pass at the blueline and connected on a shot from the top of the right circle for his second goal of the season.

The Warriors, however, took control in the second period with a three-goal effort, and then added three more over the final 20 minutes to gain their fourth straight win over Clarkson.

The home team regained the lead just 1:45 into the middle frame when Matt Cronin fired a shot from along the boards that found its way through a maze of players in front and past Clarkson's junior goaltender Steve Perry.

At 12:57 Brett Seney knocked in a rebound in front to put the Warriors up 3-1, while both teams were skating four aside. Merrimack added another goal at 14:35. After initially being waved off, Bahe was awarded his second score of the night after a video review, scoring on a deflection.

Just 28 seconds into the final frame, the Warriors made it 5-1 with Justin Hussar's tally. Hampus Gustafsson recorded the night's only power-play marker moments later at 1:50. Mathieu Tibbet closed out the scoring at 5:17 as Merrimack became the first team to score seven goals on the Knights since Quinnipiac edged Clarkson 7-6 on February 11, 2012.

The Knights outshot the Warriors 31-27. Clarkson was 0-of-3 on the power play, while Merrimack was 1-of-5 with the man-advantage.

Perry finished with 12 saves on 18 shots. Junior Ville Runola played the final 18:10 in the Clarkson crease and posted eight saves on nine shots.