STEVENS POINT, Wis. -- Behind a pair of goals each from Jenna Gerold (JR, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS) and  Kensie Malone (SO, Minneapolis, Minn./Gentry Academy HS), the Augsburg University women's hockey team claimed its third straight victory, a 6-2 win at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Friday evening.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 6, Wisconsin-Stevens Point 2
LOCATION: Ice Hawks Arena, Stevens Point, Wis.
RECORDS: Augsburg 4-5-1 overall, UW-Stevens Point 4-7-0 overall

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Gerold claimed her third career multi-goal game, scoring twice in a 1:18 span midway through the second period to give the Auggies a 3-1 lead. She scored a power-play goal from Katie Flynn (JR, Woodbury, Minn./East Ridge HS) at the 8:28 mark, then scored at the 9:46 mark from Carleigh Drill (JR, Madison, Wis./Madison East HS) and Payton Allen (JR, St. Michael, Minn./St. Michael-Albertville HS).
• Malone scored two special-teams goals in the third period -- scoring an unassisted, shorthanded goal at the 4:01 mark, and capping the scoring with a power-play goal from Brooke Leone (SR, Rochester, Minn./Mayo HS) midway through the final frame. The two-goal effort marked her first career multi-goal game.
• The Pointers opened the game with a goal 29 seconds into play, but Augsburg struck back with five straight goals. Flynn tied the game at 1-1 with a goal from Claire Jenkins Coffman (SO, Mount Pleasant, Wis./The Prairie School) at the 1:12 mark of the second period, and Emily Cronkhite (FY, Eagan, Minn./Eagan HS) scored her team-leading seventh goal of the game 6:42 into the third period, assisted by Leone and Allen.
• Augsburg outshot UW-Stevens Point by a 42-31 margin -- its ninth straight game with 25-plus shots on-goal. Chloe Stockinger (SO, Sauk Rapids, Minn./Sauk Rapids-Rice HS) improved to 2-2-1 on the season wtih a 29-save effort in goal.
• Flynn had seven shots on-goal, while Cronkhite and Gerold had five shots each.

FOR THE FOES
• Nicole Neuberger and Courtney Leising scored goals for UW-Stevens Point.
• Olivia Schultz had 36 saves in goal for the Pointers.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg ends its weekend in Wisconsin with a nonconference game at St. Norbert (Wis.) on Saturday (12/11) at 3 p.m.