MINNEAPOLIS (3/4/00) --
Laura McGowan (So., Fridley, Minn./St. Louis Park HS) and
Sarah Garrison (So., West Des Moines, Iowa/Valley HS) scored two goals apiece as Augsburg College rolled past the College of St. Benedict 7-1 Saturday night at Augsburg Ice Arena, sweeping its two-game Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference women's hockey playoff series.
With the win, Augsburg (19-5-1 overall), the top-seeded team in the playoffs, advances to the MIAC playoff finals, facing No. 3 seed Gustavus Adolphus College (18-8-0). The Gusties completed their upset sweep of No. 2 seed St. Mary's University (19-5-1) with a 1-1 tie on Saturday, taking three of the four points of the series. The MIAC playoff final games will be played next Friday and Saturday (3/10-11) at 7:05 p.m. each night at Augsburg Ice Arena.
The MIAC playoff champion will advance to the American Women's College Hockey Alliance (AWCHA) Division III national championship series March 24-25 at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass. Middlebury College (Vt.), the East Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III playoff champion, will face the MIAC playoff winner in a two-game/minigame national championship series.
St. Benedict, the No. 4 seed, finishes its season 14-12-1.
Augsburg built a 4-0 lead before the Blazers scored their only goal of the two-game series, a shorthanded tally from Shannon Kegley (So., St. Paul, Minn./South St. Paul HS) late in the second period. McGowan scored the eventual game-winning goal at the 10:47 mark of the first period, then closed the scoring for the Auggies with her 10th goal of the season at the 15:23 mark of the third period. Garrison's two goals were both power-play tallies, coming late in the first and second periods. She now has 17 goals on the season, second-most on the team. Both Garrison and McGowan added assists for three-point nights each.
Erica Johnson (Sr., Blaine, Minn.),
Angie Rieger (Jr., Courtland, Minn./New Ulm Public HS) and
Cindy Drum (Sr., Milwaukee, Wis./Nicolet HS) each added goals for the Auggies, with Rieger and Johnson also adding two assists each.
Amber Nadreau (Jr., Anchorage, Alaska/Grace Christian HS) had two assists.
Meg Schmidt (Sr., West St. Paul, Minn./Henry Sibley HS) made 22 saves to pick up the win in goal for the Auggies, while St. Benedict's Kristen Blumberg (So., St. Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall HS) faced 44 shots, stopping 37 to take the loss.
First Period
Goals
1. 8:02--Augsburg--Erica Johnson (5) (Carrie McCarville)
2. 10:47--Augsburg--Laura McGowan (9) (Angie Rieger, Sarah Garrison) pp
3. 16:19--Augsburg--Sarah Garrison (16) (Erica Johnson) pp
Penalties
9:10--St. Benedict--Aggie Wawra (2 Min) Tripping
15:08--St. Benedict--Katie Dierkhising (2 Min) Illegal Check
17:53--St. Benedict--Alison Holland (2 Min) Illegal Check
Second Period
Goals
4. 14:44--Augsburg--Angie Rieger (25) (unassisted) sh
5. 15:52--St. Benedict--Shannon Kegley (10) (unassisted) sh
6. 19:12--Augsburg--Sarah Garrison (17) (Erica Johnson, Angie Rieger) pp
Penalties
3:57--Augsburg--April Leger (2 Min) Illegal Check
8:09--Augsburg--Sarah Garrison (2 Min) Unsportsmanlike Conduct
12:51--Augsburg--Erica Johnson (2 Min) Interference
15:01--St. Benedict--Katie Dierkhising (2 Min) High Sticking
18:54--St. Benedict--Caitlin Kelly (2 Min) Interference
Third Period
Goals
7. 1:36--Augsburg--Cindy Drum (8) (Laura McGowan, Amber Nadreau)
8. 15:23--Augsburg--Laura McGowan (10) (Amber Nadreau)
Penalties
7:49--St. Benedict--Katy Rollwagen (2 Min) Tripping
Attendance: 250
Power Play: Augsburg 3 for 6 (50.0%), St. Benedict 0 for 3 (0.0%)
Scoring
Augsburg GP-GS G A Pts +/- Sht Sht % Pen/ Min PP SH EN GW GT HT
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Sarah Garrison F 1- 1 2 1 3 4 8 25.0 1/ 2 2 0 0 0 0 0
Laura McGowan 1- 0 2 1 3 2 4 50.0 0/ 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
Angie Rieger C 1- 1 1 2 3 4 7 14.3 0/ 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Erica Johnson 1- 0 1 2 3 5 5 20.0 1/ 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Amber Nadreau 1- 0 0 2 2 1 4 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cindy Drum 1- 0 1 0 1 2 3 33.3 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Carrie McCarville 1- 0 0 1 1 1 0 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Emily Miller D 1- 1 0 0 0 2 3 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Annie Simons F 1- 1 0 0 0 4 3 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Annie Mattison D 1- 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stephanie Johnson 1- 0 0 0 0 1 2 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kristi Brusletto 1- 0 0 0 0 3 1 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brenda Selander 1- 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
April Leger 1- 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 1/ 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Meg Schmidt G 1- 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Katie Cheese 1- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anne Osberg 1- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Genevieve Antonello 1- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rachel Leger 1- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Augsburg 1- 1 7 9 16 44 15.9 3/ 6 3 1 0 1 0 0
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St. Benedict GP-GS G A Pts +/- Sht Sht % Pen/ Min PP SH EN GW GT HT
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Shannon Kegley C 1- 1 1 0 1 -1 6 16.7 0/ 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Kristen Blumberg G 1- 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Elizabeth Hancock D 1- 1 0 0 0 -2 1 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aggie Wawra D 1- 1 0 0 0 -2 0 0.0 1/ 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lauren Silus F 1- 1 0 0 0 -1 1 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kelly Wegwerth F 1- 1 0 0 0 -2 2 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Heather Eveslage 1- 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Caitlin Kelly 1- 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 1/ 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Amber Wegwerth 1- 0 0 0 0 -1 1 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tara Krohn 1- 0 0 0 0 -1 1 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Katie Dierkhising 1- 0 0 0 0 -3 1 0.0 2/ 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Liz Farrell 1- 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Katy Rollwagen 1- 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 1/ 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stacy Roers 1- 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Alison Holland 1- 0 0 0 0 -1 3 0.0 1/ 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Paula Vogt 1- 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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St. Benedict 1- 1 1 0 1 23 4.3 6/ 12 0 1 0 0 0 0
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Goaltending
Augsburg GP-GS Min GAA W L T EN Sho GA Sv Sv %
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Meg Schmidt G 1- 1 60:00 1.00 1 0 0 0 0 1 22 .957
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Augsburg 1- 1 60:00 1.00 1 0 0 0 0 1 22 .957
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St. Benedict GP-GS Min GAA W L T EN Sho GA Sv Sv %
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Kristen Blumberg G 1- 1 60:00 7.00 0 1 0 0 0 7 37 .841
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St. Benedict 1- 1 60:00 7.00 0 1 0 0 0 7 37 .841
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Statistics by Period
Goals 1 2 3 Tot
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Augsburg 3 2 2 7
St. Benedict 0 1 0 1
Shots 1 2 3 Tot
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Augsburg 22 12 10 44
St. Benedict 5 11 7 23
Penalties 1 2 3 Tot
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Augsburg 0 3 0 3
St. Benedict 3 2 1 6
Penalty Minutes 1 2 3 Tot
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Augsburg 0 6 0 6
St. Benedict 6 4 2 12
