MINNEAPOLIS -- Ashley St. Aubin (SR, Burnsville, Minn./Burnsville HS) set a new Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference women's soccer record with her 70th career goal, as Augsburg University claimed a 1-1, two-overtime draw with the University of St. Thomas in the conference playoff championship game on Saturday afternoon. The Tommies claimed the playoff title and the MIAC's automatic berth in the NCAA Division III national playoffs with a 6-5 result in a penalty kick shootout.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: St. Thomas 1, Augsburg 1 (2OT, St. Thomas 6-5 on penalty kicks)
LOCATION: Edor Nelson Field, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 14-3-2 overall, St. Thomas 15-2-3 overall

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Trailing 1-0 after a St. Thomas goal in the 11th minute, St. Aubin's MIAC record-setting goal came with 11:45 left in regulation time. Gabriela Encarnacion (SR, Bel Air, Md./Bel Air HS) passed the ball 30 yards forward from midfield to St. Aubin, who got past two defenders and slid a shot underneath a diving St. Thomas goalkeeper for the game-tying marker.
• After 20 minutes of scoreless overtime, the game officially ended in a draw and went to a penalty-kick shootout to determine the conference playoff title and the NCAA playoff berth. St. Thomas and Augsburg all scored through the first five rounds, and the Tommies scored in the sixth round. But Tommie goalkeeper Sarah Pasternak made the title-clinching save on the sixth Augsburg shot attempt.
• Augsburg outshot St. Thomas by a 25-20 margin in the game, including a 13-7 advantage in the second half and a 5-3 advantage in overtime. The Auggies also had six corner kicks to the Tommies' two.
• St. Aubin had 11 shots in the game, while Megan Howard (FY, Lakeland, Minn./Stillwater HS) had four shots and Callie Athey (JR, Eagan, Minn./Burnsville HS) had three shots.
• Goalkeeper Emily Chapman (SR, Elburn, Ill./Kaneland HS) had seven saves.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• With her 70th career goal, St. Aubin has now broken the MIAC women's soccer record for career goals (all games), 69, set by Macalester's Jenny Scanlon (1991-94). The MIAC's women's soccer career points record is 173 (62 goals, 49 assists), held by Heidi Campbell of Saint Mary's (1984-87); St. Aubin's 170 points are now tied with Scanlon for second-most in conference history.
• Augsburg's career scoring leader, St. Aubin now has 70 career goals and 170 career points (30 assists) in 81 games. St. Aubin has scored at least one goal in 54 games in her career, and the Auggies are now 48-5-1 when she scores a goal. Among MIAC players in overall statistics, St. Aubin now leads the league in points (42) and is second in goals (17).
• Augsburg will await the NCAA's online selection show on Monday (11/11) at 12 p.m. on the NCAA.com website to determine if it receives one of the 20 "Pool C" at-large bids to the 64-team NCAA Division III national tournament.

FOR THE FOES
• Ellie Eskierka scored for St. Thomas in the 11th minute, playing a loose ball in front following a centering pass from Katie Heimer off a corner kick by Paige Cater.
• Pasternak had seven saves in goal for the Tommies.

QUOTE FROM AUGSBURG COACH MIKE NAVARRE
• "It was a great championship game. Unfortunately, it came down to penalties, which is a tough way to end a match. Overall, we've had a great regular season and feel we are deserving of an at-large bid for the national tournament. We certainly demonstrated that we can play with the top teams in the country. Special congratulations to Ashley St Aubin for breaking the MIAC's all-time goal-scoring record. Seventy goals in a career is hard to fathom, what a tremendous accomplishment."