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LOWELL — While the defense showed up Tuesday night at the Tsongas Center, the North Andover offense was missing in action.

Minus one-third of its top skating line, eighth-seeded North Andover managed only five shots on goal in its Division 2 North Regional semifinal Tuesday night as No. 13 seed Boston Latin took advantage of the power outage to claim a 2-0 victory Tuesday night.

“We picked a bad night not to play our best game,” North Andover coach Peter Marfione said. “We were missing (senior captain) Tyler (Buonopane) tonight, but Boston Latin played better than us. They took away our offense. They limited us to under 10 shots, and you’re not going to win a game with that.

Buonopane, who is second on the team with 18 goals and 37 points, suffered a concussion in a 5-2 win over top-seeded Danvers in Friday’s quarterfinal.

North Andover (14-8-2) defeated Boston Latin (13-7-3) twice in the regular season by a combined 8-1 and had piled up 12 goals in two regional victories. But the Knights managed only one shot on net the first 12 minutes. Two of their five shots were in an eight-second span late in the first period

“We just didn’t seem to get anything going. We’ve scored (12) goals the last two games, but we just didn’t get anything going tonight. We just didn’t have it offensively.”

Even though most of the match was spent in the Knight defensive zone, Jack Walsh kept the Wolfpack in check most of the match, surviving an early first-period penalty. The junior gave up a goal midway through the second on a Nick O’Connell one-timer blasted from between the circles.

But that was the only shot that got past Walsh, as the Wolfpack added an empty-netter with 33.6 seconds remaining.

Maintaining form, the Knights were held to only one shot in the crucial third period, while Latin piled up 11 more, including three on another power-play chance that Walsh thwarted.

“It was frustrating but not as frustrating as I thought it would be,” said Walsh, who stopped 23 shots. “It wasn’t anything the team was doing. I know the effort was there. It was just that the puck wasn’t bounding our way, but that’s the stuff you have to deal with.”

With the starter not feeling well, freshman Ben Williamson got the call in net for North Andover. He was more than up to the task, stopping 28 of 29 shots to lead North Andover to a 5-1 win over Haverhill. 

Not one to hog the spotlight, Zach Keating made sure to get his North Andover teammates involved. The senior dished out four assists, and also potted a pair of goals to help the Knights roll rival Methuen, 6-2.

Tyler Bounapane scored a career-high four goals and North Andover beat Tewksbury 8-5. Zach Keating added two goals and Matt Lucy had five assists for the winners.

North Andover scoring sensation Matt Lucy scored two of his three goals in the final minute of the second period to help his Knights pick up a 5-1 win over Boston Latin. Trailing 1-0 after the first period, goalie Jack Walsh (33 saves) made some huge stops to keep NA within striking distance.

Waltham (9-2-2) boys hockey had allowed only 19 goals all season, but North Andover (8-3-2) punched in four goals and added an empty-netter to earn a 5-2 victory. Matt Lucy and Tyler Bounopane each scored twice for the Knights.

Matt Lucey had three assists and Jake Sitak, Shaun McKay and Zach Keating scored for North Andover (7-3-2) in a 3-1 win over Lincoln-Sudbury (8-4, 6-1), which suffered its first MVC-DCL 2 loss. Jack Walsh stopped 24 L-S shots.

It was a shootout, but nobody prevailed in North Andover's 5-5 tie against Methuen. Matt Lucy had three goals for the Knights, while the Rangers had five different goal scorers including Connor O'Malley. Both goalies, Methuen's Devin Coonradt and North Andover's Jack Walsh, made 23 saves.

Matt Lucy stole the puck and came in for an unassisted goal with 1:43 left to lift North Andover past North Reading 3-2.