MINNEAPOLIS -- Behind a pair of goals from Gavin Holland (JR, Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater HS), the Augsburg University men's hockey team opened its abbreviated 2021 schedule with a 7-2 nonconference win over Gustavus Adolphus College on Friday afternoon at Ed Saugestad Rink.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 7, Gustavus 2
LOCATION: Ed Saugestad Rink, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 1-0-0 overall, Gustavus 0-1-0 overall

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Claiming his fourth career multi-goal game, Holland fired a wrister from the left half-wall to give the Auggies a 2-0 lead at the 14:52 mark of the opening frame. Austin Martinsen (SR, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS) had the first of his three assists in the game. Martinsen and Erik Palmqvist (SO, Linkoping, Sweden/Anderstorpsgymnasiet) assisted on Holland's second goal, a power-play marker 9:34 into the second period. Martinsen fed a point-blank pass to Holland from the left point to the right corner of the net, and Holland slammed the puck home.
• Austin Koss (SO, Huntington Beach, Calif./Huntington Beach HS), who had a goal and two assists, opened the scoring at the 12:20 mark of the first period, collecting a loose puck in the slot and slamming it home. Matt Nehls (SR, Boulder, Colo./D.C. West HS) assisted on the goal.
• Augsburg scored four goals in the third period to seal the victory, with two newcomers notching their first collegiate goals -- Tommy Carls (FY, Coon Rapids, Minn./Centennial HS) and Logan Kons (FY, Niles, Ill./Niles West HS). Carls scored 18 seconds into a power play, assisted by Martinsen and Palmqvist, and Kons notched his goal on the power play halfway through the frame, assisted by Grant Reichenbacher (SO, Verona, Wis./Madison Edgewood HS).
• Charlie Parker (SR, Verona, Wis./Verona HS) scored his first goal of the season at the 11:25 mark of the third, finishing a 3-on-2 break from Michael Redmon (SO, West Bloomfield, Mich./Centennial (Tenn.) HS) and Koss.
• Jarod Blackowiak (SO, Eden Prairie, Minn./Eden Prairie HS) capped the scoring in the final minute of play, on a goal assisted by Koss.
• Gustavus held a 33-30 shots-on-goal advantage, with Daniil Gerasimov (JR, Moscow, Russia/State School 1944) recording 31 saves in goal for the Auggies.

FOR THE FOES
• Gustavus scored a pair of goals in the second period to cut Augsburg's lead to 3-2. Nick Klischko scored a power-play goal from Toby Sengvongxay and Caleb Anderson at the 5:26 mark, and Dan Sandvig scored from Tyler Rock and Will LeNeave at the 19:25 mark.
• Robbie Goor had 23 saves in goal for the Gusties.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg hosts Saint John's in a nonconference contest on Saturday (1/30) at 7 p.m. at Ed Saugestad Rink.
• Gustavus plays at Saint Mary's in a nonconference contest on Saturday at 7 p.m. in Winona, Minn.