MINNEAPOLIS -- Scoring three third-period goals to rally from an early deficit, the Augsburg University women's hockey team claimed a 3-1 win over Saint Mary's University in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference women's hockey contest on Friday evening at Ed Saugestad Rink.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 3, Saint Mary's 1
LOCATION: Ed Saugestad Rink, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 4-1-0 overall (3-0-0 MIAC), Saint Mary's 3-2-0 overall (1-2-0 MIAC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Trailing 1-0 entering the third period, Augsburg tied the game at the 3:45 mark, as Bridget Walter (JR, Princeton, Minn./Princeton HS) scored a power-play goal, tipping home a shot from the point by Mackenzie Molnar (SO, Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall HS). Jacie Hoehn (JR, Waseca, Minn./Kasson-Mantorville HS) had the second assist on the goal.
• Mikayla Jones (SO, Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater HS) put the Auggies in front with 2:18 left in the game, scoring on a rebound in front off a shot from the blue line by Valerie Whichello (JR, Woodbury, Minn./East Ridge HS). Nikki Nightendale (SO, Bloomington, Minn./Jefferson HS) fed Whichello for the original shot.
• Megan Johnson (JR, Madison, Wis./Memorial HS), who had been denied on a breakaway shot earlier in the period, capped the scoring with an empty-net goal with 42 seconds left in the contest.
• Augsburg outshot Saint Mary's by a 36-15 margin, including a 14-5 edge in the final period. Johnson had eight shots on-goal for the Auggies, while Whichello had five shots.
• McKenna Manalli (JR, Byron, Ill./Byron HS) improved to 4-0-0 on the season in goal, claiming 14 saves.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• Augsburg has now outscored its opponents by a 16-8 margin through the first five games of the season, with 16 different players figuring in the scoring. Nine different Auggies have scored goals on the year. Augsburg's eight goals allowed (1.60 goals per-game) are the fewest among MIAC teams so far this season.
• Manalli has the second-best goals-against-average (1.21) among MIAC goalies and the fourth-best save percentage (.922).

FOR THE FOES
• Saint Mary's opened the scoring with an unassisted goal by Anya Hafiz at the 5:37 mark of the first period.
• Ashley Corcoran had 33 saves in goal for the Cardinals.

UP NEXT
• The teams complete the MIAC series on Saturday (11/18) at 2 p.m. in Winona, Minn.