FAIRBANKS, Alaska – For the fourth time this season, the University of Maine Black Bear hockey team scored in the first minute of play.

The Bears added another at the 1:07 mark and those goals off the sticks of Kent Salfi and Dave MacIsaac sent them on their way to an 8-1 victory over Bowling Green State University in the Great Alaska Faceoff Tournament at the Carlson Center here Friday evening.

Maine, which received two goals apiece from Cal Ingraham and Eric Fenton, is now 10-0-1 overall, 2-0 in the tournament, entering an 11:30 p.m. Saturday game against host Alaska-Fairbanks. Bowling Green fell to 5-8, 1-1 in the tourney.

The win extended Maine’s regular season unbeaten streak to 23 games (20-0-3). The Bears are 24-1-3 in their last 28 regular season games.

Salfi scored his sixth goal of the season 24 seconds after the opening whistle as he took a long pass from Matt Martin, broke in alone on goalie Will Clarke, and beat Clarke to the glove side with a quick shot.

MacIsaac scored 43 seconds later as he took a pass from Ingraham, closed from the point and whistled a 25-foot slap shot past Clarke. It was his second of the year.

Ingraham scored his first goal and 12th of the season on the power play with 1:04 left in the first period. Paul Kariya, positioned behind the net, flipped it to Ingraham, who lifted a point-blank backhander past Clarke.

Maine dominated the first period, outshooting the Falcons 11-2.

Bowling Green got one back at the 1:05 mark of the second period when Sean Pronger netted his 10th goal of the year off a 3-on-1 break. He took a pass from Jason Clark and beat Maine goalie Garth Snow to the short side.

But Fenton answered 33 seconds later when he swatted home a 10-footer off a Patrice Tardif pass. It was his ninth goal of the season.

Peter Ferraro made it 5-1 by knocking in a Martin Mercier pass for his third goal of the season and Ingraham added a power-play goal at the 18:09 mark of the middle period as he pumped home a Kariya pass.

Fenton and Tardif added third-period goals at the expense of Angelo Libertucci, who had replaced Clarke at the outset of the period.

Snow finished with 19 saves on 20 shots for the Bears. Clarke had 13 stops on 19 shots before Libertucci turned aside 14 of 16 shots in the final 20 minutes.

Black Bears 8, Falcons 1

Maine 3 3 2 – 8 Bowling Green 0 1 0 – 1

First period – 1. Maine, Salfi 6 (Martin, P. Ferraro), :24; 2. Maine, MacIsaac 2 (Ingraham, Montgomery), 1:07; 3. Maine, Ingraham 12 (Kariya). Penalties – Maine, Ingraham, interference, 10:16; BG, Holzinger, holding, 17:57.

Second period – 4. BG, Pronger 10 (Clark), 1:05; 5. Maine, Fenton 9 (Tardif, Latendresse), 1:38; 6. Maine, P. Ferraro 3 (Mercier, Tomberlin), 4:28; 7. Maine, Ingraham 13 (Kariya, Montgomery), 18:09. Penalties – BG, Basic, roughing, 11:23; Maine, C. Ferraro, holding, 12:36; BG, Lindsay, tripping, 13:04; BG, Basic, cross checking, 17:01; Maine, Salfi, tripping, 19:32.

Third period – 8. Maine, Fenton 10 (Ingraham, Montgomery), 8:50; 9. Maine, Tardif 6 (Latendresse, Fenton), 18:06. Penalties – BG, Clark, roughing, 5:03; Maine, LaCouture, roughing, 5:03; BG, Herman, holding, 5:54; BG, Williams, holding, 8:05; BG, Lindsay, slashing, 12:58; Maine, Saunders, slashing, 12:58; Maine, Imes, holding, 15:00.

Shots on goal: Maine 11-8-16 – 35; BG 2-13-5 – 20

Goaltenders: Maine, Garth Snow; BG, Will Clarke and Angelo Libertucci