MOORHEAD, Minn. -- Annie Juergens (JR, Lino Lakes, Minn./Centennial HS) claimed her second straight shutout and Augsburg University's third straight as a team, as the Auggies clinched the No. 3 seed in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference women's hockey postseason playoffs with a 4-0 victory on Saturday afternoon at Concordia College-Moorhead.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 4, Concordia-Moorhead 0
LOCATION: Moorhead Sports Center, Moorhead, Minn.
RECORDS: Augsburg 14-6-5 overall (11-3-4 MIAC), Concordia 9-13-3 overall (6-9-3 MIAC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Juergens collected 21 saves in goal to score up her fourth shutout of the season and eighth of her collegiate career, including her first two seasons playing at Hamline. Juergens now has an 8-4-4 record, 1.94 goals against-average and a .906 save percentage in 16 starts.
• Emily Ach (SR, Brooklyn Park, Minn./Park Center HS) and Nikki Nightengale (JR, Bloomington, Minn./Jefferson HS) had a goal and assist each to lead the Auggies, who outshot the Cobbers by a 39-21 margin in the game.
• Ach opened the scoring with a goal from Hollywood Hermanson (JR, Dover, Minn./Dover-Eyota HS) at the 6:52 mark of the first period.
• The Auggies scored twice in the second period, as Bridget Wagner (JR, Niles, Ill./Maine South HS) scored her 11th goal of the season, assisted by Ach and Jeanette Bealke (JR, White Bear Lake, Minn./White Bear Lake HS), and Bridget Walter (SR, Princeton, Minn./Princeton HS) scored from McKenna Ellena (SO, Wales, Wis./Kettle Moraine HS) and Nightengale at the 11:12 mark.
• Nightengale scored her team-leading 12th goal of the season at the 7:23 mark of the third period, scoring an unassisted, shorthanded goal.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• Augsburg finished the regular season in a tie for third place with Gustavus in the MIAC standings, but the Auggies clinched the No. 3 spot in the five-team MIAC postseason playoffs based on its win and tie against the Gusties on Jan. 18-19. 
• Nightengale's 12 goals are tied for sixth-most among MIAC players in overall statistics, while she leads the MIAC in goals by defenders. Her 20 points (12 goals, eight assists) are tied for the most by conference defenders and is tied for 11th-most among all MIAC players. 
• Wagner's 23 points (11 goals, 12 assists) are tied for seventh-most among MIAC players, with her 11 goals tied for eighth-most and her 12 assists 12th-most.
• Augsburg killed off two Concordia power-play opportunities in the game. Augsburg's .920 penalty-kill percentage (69-of-75) is tops among MIAC teams and third-best among NCAA Division III teams nationally.

FOR THE FOES
• Emily Musielewicz had 35 saves in goal for Concordia.

UP NEXT
• No. 3-seed Augsburg will travel to face No. 2-seed Hamline (20-2-3 overall, 14-2-2 MIAC) in a MIAC playoff semifinal game next Saturday (2/23) at 4 p.m. at the TRIA Rink in St. Paul, Minn.