MINNEAPOLIS -- The Augsburg College and University of St. Thomas men's hockey teams will enter the final weekend of the regular season in a tie for the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference men's hockey lead, after the Tommies gained the bonus point with a 1-0 shootout win after a 6-6, overtime tie with the Auggies on Saturday evening at Ed Saugestad Rink.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 6, St. Thomas 6 (OT; St. Thomas wins shootout 1-0, 3 rounds)
LOCATION: Ed Saugestad Rink, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 14-3-6 overall (8-1-5 MIAC), St. Thomas 11-7-5 overall (9-3-2 MIAC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• The game was a wild, back-and-forth affair in the first two periods, as the teams combined for 11 goals on 40 shots on-goal, with Augsburg leading 6-5. St. Thomas tied the game with a goal 2:01 into the third period, and the teams remained scoreless through the final period and overtime, with the game officially a 6-6 tie. St. Thomas won the shootout 1-0 in three rounds to claim the bonus point in the MIAC standings.
• With both starting goalies pulled after allowing six goals each, the two relief goalies -- Nick Schmit (SO, Fargo, N.D./Fargo North HS) for Augsburg and Andrew Rohkohl for St. Thomas -- combined to stop all 20 shots they faced in regulation and overtime, nine saves for Rohkohl and 11 saves for Schmit.
• Eric Brenk (SO, Moorhead, Minn.) scored two goals for Augsburg -- a power-play goal in the second period and the Auggies' final goal, an even-strength marker late in the frame.
• Chris Nuth (SR, Highlands Ranch, Colo./Mountain Vista HS), Nate Flynn (JR, Hastings, Minn.), Paul Soubry (SO, Winnipeg, Manitoba/St. Paul's HS) and Corbin Chapman (SR, Burnsville, Minn.) scored goals for Augsburg, with Flynn and Chapman adding assists for two-point evenings.
• Lukas Gillett (SO, Rosemount, Minn.) had two assists, with John O'Connor (FY, Moorhead, Minn.), Luke Dietsch (SO, St. Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall HS), Eli May (JR, Eagan, Minn.), Brett Bukowski (JR, Superior, Wis.), Rory Vesel (SR, Rochester, Minn./Lourdes HS), Max Pernhem (JR, Stockholm, Sweden/Dragonskolan), Dylan Meier (SR, Highlands Park, Colo./Mountain Vista HS) and Evan Hesse (JR, Monticello, Minn./Palmer (Alaska) HS) adding assists.
• Augsburg outshot St. Thomas by a 34-26 margin in the game. Flynn had seven shots on-goal for the Auggies, while Brenk had six shots.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• Entering the final weekend of the regular season, Augsburg and St. Thomas are tied for first place in the MIAC standings, each with 30 points, a point ahead of Saint Mary's (9-6-1 MIAC, 13-9-3 overall), which has finished its regular season with 29 points. Hamline is fourth with 26 points (7-4-3 MIAC, 10-8-5 overall). The Auggies, defending MIAC regular-season and tournament champions, take on Saint John's (20 points) in their regular-season final series next weekend, while St. Thomas faces St. Olaf (18 points).
• Augsburg, St. Thomas and Saint Mary's have all clinched berths in the five-team MIAC postseason playoffs. Four teams remain in the hunt for the final two spots entering next weekend's play.
• Flynn now has 14 goals on the season, third-most among MIAC players in overall statistics. Brenk is now fifth among MIAC players with his 12 goals. In total points, Flynn's 23 points are tied for sixth-most among MIAC players, and he now has 11 points (eight goals, three assists) in his last eight games.
• Augsburg has outscored its opponents by an 91-60 margin, with its 91 goals the most among MIAC teams in overall statistics, and the 60 goals allowed second-fewest among MIAC teams, a goal behind St. Thomas' 59 allowed.
• Augsburg has now played in six shootouts this season, with a 2-4 record in them. The Auggies won their first two, but have lost four shootouts in their last five games.

FOR THE FOES
• Charlie Donlin scored the lone goal of the shootout for St. Thomas, delivering the Tommies the bonus conference point.
• Johnny Panvica, Tanner Barnes, Thomas Williams and Brett Gravelle had a goal and assist each, with Williams and Gravelle scoring to rally the Tommies from a 6-4 deficit to tie the game.
• Johnny Roisum and Joakim Broberg had the other goals for the Tommies.
• Benjamin Meyers had 19 saves in goal to start for the Tommies, before Rohkohl relieved him late in the second period.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg travels to face Saint John's next Friday (2/17) at 7 p.m. at the National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, Minn., and the teams complete the series next Saturday (2/18) at 7 p.m. at Ed Saugestad Rink.
• St. Thomas hosts St. Olaf next Friday at 7:30 p.m., and plays at St. Olaf next Saturday at 7:30 p.m.