With two of its offensive stars out of the lineup, the Massachusetts men’s lacrosse team needed a scorer yesterday. It got one in senior Kevin Glenz.

The Minutemen (1-1) downed the Hartford Hawks 13-7 yesterday at Garber Field, thanks to a sizzling six-goal, two-assist performance from Glenz. The attackman from Merrick, N.Y. piled on five goals in the second half, jumpstarting a Minuteman offense that took 52 shots, but didn’t begin to separate from the Hawks (0-2) until late in the third quarter.

Included in Glenz’s six-goal day was the game winner, set up by defenseman Stephen Byrnes’ charge through midfield, and freshman attacker Matt Tundo’s feed in front of the net. Glenz took Tundo’s pass, and slipped a shot past goaltender Jordan Karem as he fell to the ground, making it 8-6 UMass.

The Minutemen never looked back, running away with five more goals before the Hawks could answer.

“Every game I’m going to try to score six goals if I can,” said Glenz, who doubled his previous game-high for goals. “Today it just happened to work. With our two stars out, it’s hard sometimes to keep on working, guys get down on themselves. It was nice to be able to score six goals today and help my team out.”

Glenz stepped up for an attack that was missing last year’s leading scorer, senior Jeff Zywicki, who was out with a nagging back injury. UMass was also without one of its top midfielders, Sean Morris, still sidelined with mononucleosis.

“It’s important, if you’re going to be a good team, you need your attack to score a lot of goals,” UMass coach Greg Cannella said. “We’ve had that here over the last few years. Those guys have to score, and they’ve been struggling to find somebody that’s gonna score some goals. Fortunately Kevin had six, and Matt Tundo had two.

“You need those guys to pick it up and to score around the cage to be a good team. Especially the style we play, they need to score, and they did today.”

The nine goals produced by the UMass attackmen – including sophomore Tony Ventiquattro’s first of the season – was five more than it had in the Minutemen’s 12-7 loss to North Carolina on Saturday.

While the Minutemen enjoyed a comfortable lead in the second half, the first half played a little more even than Cannella would have liked. The Hawks didn’t trail by more than one goal until Glenz’s third goal at 5:36 of the second quarter, making it 7-5, and led twice on goals from senior Lawrence McDonald and sophomore Mark Ross midway through the first.

“I was disappointed in our team, the way they came out,” Cannella said. “I haven’t been disappointed in a team here, in the way they’ve come out and been ready to play, and these kids weren’t ready to play.”

Karem did well to keep the Hawks in it in the first half, and made 13 saves before being pulled in favor of freshman Franklin Pargh with 2:22 to go.

“I give Hartford a lot of credit, they really packed it in on defense, their goalie had a really good game, particularly in the first half,” Cannella said. “They slowed the ball down on offense, they scored on their opportunities.”

The Minutemen took 53 shots in the game, while Hartford took a more efficient 16.

At halftime, though, Cannella spoke to his players, and that seemed to make a difference, because UMass came flying out of the gates in the second half, outscoring the Hawks 4-1 in the third quarter.

“I said, ‘every one of you know that you’re better than the way you played in the first half, and let’s go out there and play the way we can play,'” Cannella said.

The Minutemen are off until Saturday, when they visit Stony Brook at 1 p.m.