MINNEAPOLIS -- Jarod Blackowiak (SR, Eden Prairie, Minn./Eden Prairie HS) scored the game-winning goal 2:25 into overtime, capping his first collegiate hat trick, as the Augsburg University men's hockey team won its sixth straight game, a 6-5 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference triumph over St. Olaf College on Friday evening at Ed Saugestad Rink.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 6, St. Olaf 5 (OT)
LOCATION: Ed Saugestad Rink, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 6-1-1 overall (3-0-0 MIAC), St. Olaf 7-2-1 overall (3-2-0 MIAC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• The No. 2-ranked team in the latest USCHO.com Division III national poll, Augsburg fell behind 3-1 early in the second period and had to rally to tie the game three times, finally forcing overtime on an extra-attacker goal from Austin Dollimer (SR, Rosemount, Minn./Rosemount HS), who tipped in a shot from the point by Logan Kons (JR, Niles, Ill./Niles West HS), with 34.8 seconds left in regulation time. The second assist was credited to Mason Palmer (SR, Plymouth, Minn./Shattuck-St. Mary's).
• Playing in his 67th collegiate game, Blackowiak claimed his first collegiate hat trick and second career multi-goal game with his 3-on-3, overtime game-winner. Following a dramatic save by goalie Samuel Vyletelka (SO, Zilina, Slovakia/Grammar School of St. Francis of Assisi), Daniel Chladek (JR, Anaheim, Calif./Canyon HS) picked up the loose puck and fed it ahead to Nick Woodward (SR, Dubuque, Iowa/Dubuque HS). Woodward skated up the ice, and as he was spinning and falling off a St. Olaf check, he was able to feed the puck across the slot to Blackowiak on the left wing, and Blackowiak connected on a wrist shot for his sixth career game-winning goal.
• Blackowiak connected on a pair of special-team goals earlier in the game -- a shorthanded goal from Gavin Holland (SR, Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater HS) at the 8:54 mark of the second period, and a power-play goal from Holland and Fritz Belisle (SR, Red Wing, Minn./Red Wing HS) to tie the game at 4-4 at the 7:11 mark of the third period.
• Augsburg ended up 3-for-7 on power plays in the physical game. Chladek opened the scoring with a power-play goal 9:05 into the first period, from Grant Reichenbacher (SR, Verona, Wis./Madison Edgewood HS) and Erik Palmqvist (SR, Linkoping, Sweden/Anderstorpsgymnasiet), and Palmqvist scored from Michael Ferrandino (SO, Lisle, Ill./Waterloo West (Iowa) HS) and Dollimer to tie the game at 3-3 at the 10:21 mark of the second period.
• Augsburg outshot St. Olaf by a 35-24 margin in the game, including a 3-1 advantage in overtime, and kept St. Olaf scoreless on six power-play opportunities. 
• Vyletelka had 19 saves in goal to improve to 6-1-1 on the season.

FOR THE FOES
• Brendan Darby had a goal and an assist for St. Olaf, with Tyler Cooper, Jonathan Panisa, Ben Luscko and Connor Kalthoff also scoring goals for the Oles.
• Thomas Lalonde had 29 saves in goal for St. Olaf.

UP NEXT
• The teams complete the MIAC series on Saturday (12/3) at 5 p.m. at the St. Olaf Ice Arena in Northfield, Minn.