MINNEAPOLIS -- With four different players scoring goals in a quality team effort, the Augsburg University women's hockey team claimed a 4-1 nonconference win over the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Sunday afternoon at Ed Saugestad Rink.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 4, Wisconsin-Stevens Point 1
LOCATION: Ed Saugestad Rink, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 7-3-0 overall, UW-Stevens Point 6-4-2 overall

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Augsburg built a 2-0 lead after two periods, then scored twice in the last five minutes of the game after the Pointers had cut the lead to 2-1. 
• Augsburg struck first, just 87 seconds into the game, as Kalli Prekker (JR, Maple Grove, Minn./Maple Grove HS) snapped a wrist shot from the left half-wall into the net for her first goal of the season. Brooke Leone (SO, Rochester, Minn./Mayo HS), a transfer from Hamline, claimed her first point as an Auggie with the assist.
• The Auggies took a 2-0 lead on the power play at the 6:16 mark of the second period, as Nikki Nightengale (SR, Bloomington, Minn./Jefferson HS) slid a pass from right to left across the crease, and Bridget Wagner (SR, Niles, Ill./Maine South HS) hit a one-timer into an open net for her fourth goal of the season. Emily Ach (SR, Brooklyn Park, Minn./Park Center HS) also assisted on the goal.
• Katie Flynn (FY, Woodbury, Minn./East Ridge HS) gave the Auggies a 3-1 lead with 5:02 left to play, taking advantage of a steal at the blue line from Mackenzie Molnar (SR, Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall HS) and walking in for the score from the left faceoff circle. McKenna Ellena (JR, Wales, Wis./Kettle Moraine HS) capped the scoring with her fifth goal of the season, a power-play, empty-net goal from Prekker, with 1:51 left.
• Augsburg outshot UW-Stevens Point by a 33-25 margin in the game.
• Abby Bollig (SO, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS) stopped 24 of the 25 shots she faced in goal to pick up the win, improving to 4-1-0 on the season.

FOR THE FOES
• Maddie Monroe scored for UW-Stevens Point at the 3:01 mark of the third period, assisted by Cassie Newcomer and Kiley Hahner.
• Olivia Schultz had 29 saves in goal for the Pointers.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg has a nonconference game at Wisconsin-River Falls on Friday (1/10) at 4:30 p.m.