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Emily Bauermeister
4
Winner Hamline University HUM 12-10-4
3
Augsburg College AUG 12-14-0
Winner
Hamline University HUM
12-10-4
4
Final
3
Augsburg College AUG
12-14-0
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 F
Hamline University HUM 0 1 3 4
Augsburg College AUG 0 2 1 3

Game Recap: Men's Ice Hockey |

Auggies' season ends with 4-3 loss to Hamline

MINNEAPOLIS -- Zach Dick (SR, Grand Rapids, Minn.) had a goal and assist for Augsburg College, but the Auggies dropped a 4-3 decision to Hamline University in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference men's hockey postseason playoff game on Thursday evening at Ed Saugestad Rink.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Hamline 4, Augsburg 3
LOCATION: Ed Saugestad Rink, Minneapolis, Minn.
RECORDS: Augsburg 12-14-0 overall, Hamline 12-10-4 overall

HOW IT HAPPENED
• No. 4-seed Augsburg took a 2-1 lead after two periods, as Dick scored from Daniel Hildebrandt (SR, Monument, Colo./Pine Creek HS) and Evan Hesse (FY, Monticello, Minn./Palmer (Alaska) HS) at the 7:58 mark, and Corbin Chapman (SO, Burnsville, Minn.) scored from Dylan Meier (SO, Highlands Ranch, Colo./Mountain Vista HS) and Drew Allen (JR, Arvada, Colo./Ralston Valley HS) at the 19:15 mark.
• Hamline scored three straight goals in the third period to take a 4-2 lead, but Augsburg cut the lead to its final margin at the 19:15 mark, as Ben McClellan (SR, Cottage Grove, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall HS) scored an extra-attacker goal from Dick.
• Augsburg outshot Hamline by a 46-34 margin in the game, including a 23-12 advantage in the third period. 
• John Bretzman (SR, Mendota Heights, Minn./St. Croix Lutheran HS) had 30 saves in goal for the Auggies.
• Nate Flynn (FY, Hastings, Minn.) and Eli May (FY, Eagan, Minn.) had six shots on-goal for the Auggies, while Chapman and Meier had five shots.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• The game was the final collegiate contest for five Auggie seniors -- Bretzman, Dick, McClellan, Daniel Hildebrandt (SR, Monument, Colo./Pine Creek HS) and George Jackson (SR, Sewickley, Pa./Quaker Valley HS).
• Bretzman finished his 36-game collegiate career with a 17-15-2 record, .895 save percentage and 2.72 goals-against-average, with two shutouts.
• In 96 career games, McClellan finished with 41 goals and 37 assists for 78 points.
• Dick had 10 goals and 22 assists for 32 points in 90 career games.
• Hildebrandt had 16 assists for 16 points in 88 career games.
• Jackson had five goals and seven assists for 12 points in 87 career games.

FOR THE FOES
• Charlie Adams scored two third-period goals, adding an assist for a three-point night. Adams scored from Brandon Zurn at the 11:01 mark, and scored an empty-net goal from Zurn and Joe Rubbelke at the 18:47 mark.
• Zurn scored from Adams and Brandon Reinholz at the 8:56 mark of the third period.
• Chad Hennum opened the scoring for the Pipers with a power-play goal from Jaycob McCombs and Kevin Novakovich at the 5:55 mark of the second period.
• John Sellie-Hanson had 43 saves in goal for Hamline.
• No. 5-seed Hamline advances to face No. 1-seed St. Thomas in the MIAC playoff semifinals on Saturday (2/28) at 7 p.m. at the UST Ice Arena in Mendota Heights, Minn.
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