NORTHFIELD, Minn. -- The Augsburg University men's hockey team held a 2-1 lead after two periods, but St. Olaf College scored three goals in the final frame to claim a 4-3 triumph over the visiting Auggies in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference contest on Saturday evening.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: St. Olaf 4, Augsburg 3
LOCATION: Northfield Ice Arena, Northfield, Minn.
RECORDS: Augsburg 14-7-0 overall (8-4-0 MIAC), St. Olaf 7-9-2 overall (4-5-1 MIAC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• St. Olaf opened the scoring with a power-play goal, but Augsburg scored twice to take a 2-1 advantage later in the opening frame. Austin Martinsen (FY, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS) scored his second goal of the season at the 5:37 mark, assisted by Nate Flynn (SR, Hastings, Minn./Hastings HS) and Luke Dietsch (JR, St. Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall HS), and Lukas Gillett (JR, Rosemount, Minn./Rosemount HS) scored a power-play goal from Tommy Carey (FY, Moorhead, Minn./Moorhead HS) and Chandler Madry (JR, Bakersfield, Calif./Fairbanks (Alaska) BEST HS) at the 16:28 mark.
• Eli May (SR, Eagan, Minn./Eagan HS) gave Augsburg a 3-2 lead at the 9:42 mark of the third period, assisted by Madry.
• Augsburg outshot St. Olaf by a 40-38 margin in the game. Flynn, Max Pernhem (SR, Stockholm, Sweden/Dragonskolan) and Matt Nehls (FY, Boulder, Colo./D.C. West HS) had five shots on-goal each for the Auggies.
• Daniil Gerasimov (FY, Moscow, Russia/State School 1944), making his second collegiate start in goal, had 34 saves for the Auggies.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• With his assist, Flynn moved into sole possession of the lead among MIAC players in overall statistics with 23 points (12 goals, 11 assists).
• Madry's 17 assists this season gives him the MIAC overall lead in assists. He's also tied for second among league players with 22 points (five goals, 17 assists).
• Despite the loss, Augsburg remains in the lead in the MIAC standings with 24 league points, two ahead of second-place St. Thomas (22 points) and three ahead of Gustavus and Saint John's, both with 21 points.

FOR THE FOES
• Gordon Wells scored two goals for St. Olaf, a power-play goal at the 3:15 mark of the first period and a goal that tied the game at 3-3 at the 10:52 mark of the third period. 
• Drew Otto scored a power-play goal at the 6:38 mark of the third period, and assisted on the game-winning goal, scored by Tobias Gabrielsen with 1:12 left in the game.
• Eric Hancock had 37 saves in goal for St. Olaf.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg returns to action with a series against Saint John's. The Auggies and Johnnies play on Thursday (2/1) at 7 p.m. at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, Minn., and play at Augsburg's Ed Saugestad Rink on Friday (2/2) at 7 p.m.