NORTHFIELD, Minn. -- Marie Fitzgerald (SR, Fort Atkinson, Wis.) scored two goals and added an assist on another, leading the Augsburg College women's soccer team to a 4-0 win over the University of St. Thomas in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference contest on Saturday afternoon.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 4, St. Thomas 0
LOCATION: Edor Nelson Field, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 13-5-0 overall (8-3-0 MIAC), St. Thomas 11-5-1 overall (8-2-1 MIAC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Fitzgerald opened the scoring with a goal in the 28th minute, finishing off a passing play in front from Carter Denison (JR, Minneapolis, Minn./South HS) and Morgan Kenny (JR, Milwaukee, Wis./Brookfield Central HS). Her second goal came in the 62nd minute, as she again completed a play on assists by Denison and Ashley Waalen (JR, Amery, Wis.).
• Nora Edelen (FY, Middleton, Wis.) scored on a blast from the top of the penalty box in the 55th minute.
• Hannah Whitington (JR, Eagle Lake, Minn./Mankato East HS) scored her second collegiate goal in the 67th minute, putting home the ball on the left side off a feed from Fitzgerald, following a corner kick by Edelen.
• Augsburg outshot St. Olaf by a 13-8 margin in the game. St. Thomas had seven corner kicks to Augsburg's two.
• Fitzgerald had three shots in the game, while Marta Anderson (JR, Mankato, Minn./Mankato East HS), Kenny and Whitington had two shots each.
• Marissa Guillou (SO, Burnsville, Minn./Apple Valley HS) had five saves in goal in 66 minutes before giving way to Lucy Bukowski (SR, Two Harbors, Minn.), who had two saves in the final 24 minutes

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• With the win, Augsburg finished in a tie for second place in the MIAC standings with 24 points, just a point behind MIAC regular-season champion St. Thomas. Due to tiebreaker criteria with Gustavus and Macalester, the Auggies will be the No. 4 seed in the six-team MIAC postseason playoffs, and will host No. 5-seed St. Catherine in a quarterfinal on Tuesday (11/3) at 2 p.m. at Edor Nelson Field. No. 3-seed Macalester will host No. 6-seed Concordia-Moorhead in the other quarterfinal. Top-seed St. Thomas  and No. 2-seed Gustavus will host playoff semifinal games on Wednesday (11/4).
• Fitzgerald leads the MIAC's overall statistics in total points (34), while standing second in both goals (12) and assists (10).
• Augsburg has outscored its opponents by a 45-13 margin this season. Its goal total is 13 more than the closest MIAC foe.

FOR THE FOES
• Hayley Engel had two shots for St. Thomas.
• Tarynn Theilig had three saves in goal for the Tommies.

QUOTE FROM AUGSBURG COACH MIKE NAVARRE
• "It was a great performance to conclude the regular season. Our seniors, Lucy and Marie, stepped up and gave us outstanding leadership this week and in the game today. We will enjoy this holiday victory and then regroup quickly to focus on St. Catherine. St. Catherine had a great win today to get into the playoffs. They are a skilled, determined, and well organized team. I'm expecting a very competitive game on Tuesday."