MINNEAPOLIS – Nick Woodward (SR, Dubuque, Iowa/Dubuque HS) and Austin Martinsen (SR, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS) scored goals 1:45 apart late in the third period, as their Augsburg University men's hockey team rallied for a 5-4 win over Saint Mary's University in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game on Friday evening.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 5, Saint Mary's 4
LOCATION: Ed Saugestad Rink, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 20-2-0 overall (12-1-0 MIAC), Saint Mary's 7-11-1 overall (4-5-0 MIAC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Trailing 4-3, Woodward tied the game on an unassisted blast from the point off a clearing attempt by a Saint Mary's player with 5:49 left in regulation time. 
• The Auggies took the lead with 4:04 left, as Martinsen capped off a 3-on-2 break on a diving one-timer from Gavin Holland (SR, Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater HS) and Austin Dollimer (SR, Rosemount, Minn./Rosemount HS), colliding with the crossbar as he scored his 12th goal of the season.
• The teams exchanged the first six goals of the game, before Saint Mary's took a 4-3 lead with a goal in the final minute of the second period. Augsburg jumped on the scoreboard just 66 seconds into the game, with Grant Reichenbacker (JR, Verona, Wis./Madison Edgewood HS) scored in the slot off a shot attempt by Michael Redmon (JR, West Bloomfield, Mich./Centennial (Tenn.) HS). Dylan Schneider (FY, Rochester, Minn./Shattuck-St. Mary's HS) had the second assist on the goal.
• Holland scored his team-leading 13th goal of the season with 1:02 left in the first period, notching his fourth power-play goal of the year, driving in from the left side with a wrist shot. Martinsen and Logan Kons (SO, Niles, Ill./Niles West HS) assisted on the goal.
• The Auggies took a 3-2 lead at the 12:40 mark of the second period, as Jarod Blackowiak (SR, Eden Prairie, Minn./Eden Prairie HS) notched his 11th goal of the season on a shot through traffic from between the faceoff circles. Keenen Lund (JR, Sartell, Minn./Sartell HS) and Dollimer assisted on the goal.
• Augsburg outshot Saint Mary's by a 32-24 margin in the game. Jack Robbel (JR, Bloomington, Minn./Shattuck-St. Mary's HS) had 20 saves in goal, improving to 13-1-0 on the season.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• Augsburg, ranked No. 4 for most of the season in the USCHO.com Division III national poll, has now won 11 games in a row.
• The Auggies have outscored their opponents by an 81-34 margin this season. The Auggies have three of the top six scorers in the MIAC, with Holland second in the conference with 13 goals, Martinsen tied for third with 12, and Blackowiak tied for fifth with 11. Martinsen's 29 points (12 goals, 17 assists) lead the conference, with Holland's 25 points (13 goals, 12 assists) third-most.

FOR THE FOES
• Nathan Solis, Warner Young, Gabe Potyk and Callahan Nauss scored goals for Saint Mary's.
• Matt Sanker had 27 saves in goal for the Cardinals.

UP NEXT
• The teams complete the MIAC series on Saturday (2/12) at 7 p.m. in Winona, Minn.