Austin Martinsen works the puck up the ice during a 2021-22 Augsburg men's hockey game.
Don Stoner

Augsburg closes regular season with last-second loss

BOXSCORE ST. CLOUD, Minn. -- The Augsburg University men's hockey team rallied to tie its regular-season finale with Saint John's University with a pair of goals, but a breakaway goal with one-tenth of a second left in regulation time gave the host Johnnies a 3-2 win over the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference men's hockey regular-season champion Auggies on Saturday evening.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: 
Saint John's 3, Augsburg 2
LOCATION: Herb Brooks National Hockey Center, St. Cloud, Minn.
RECORDS: Augsburg 22-3-0 overall (14-2-0 MIAC), Saint John's 16-7-2 overall (9-4-1 MIAC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Saint John's scored twice in a 34-second span early in the second period, but Augsburg started its comeback with a goal from Tommy Carls (SO, Coon Rapids, Minn./Centennial HS), assisted by Michael Redmon (JR, West Bloomfield, Mich./Centennial (Tenn.) HS), with six seconds left in the second period. 
• Augsburg tied the game at 2-2 with 3:48 left in the third period, as Austin Martinsen (SR, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS) scored his 13th goal of the season, assisted by Austin Dollimer (SR, Rosemount, Minn./Rosemount HS).
• But Auggie Moore's second goal of the game, an unassisted break with 0.1 seconds left to play, gave the Johnnies the win and snapped Augsburg's 13-game winning streak.
• Augsburg outshot Saint John's by a 33-30 margin in the game. Samuel Vyletelka (FY, Zilina, Slovakia/Grammar School of St. Francis of Assisi) had 27 saves in goal for the Auggies.

FOR THE FOES
• Moore scored his first goal of the game for the Johnnies, at the 4:21 mark of the second period, assisted by Max Osborne and Jerome Newhouse. Peter Tabor followed with a goal at the 4:55 mark on the power play, assisted by goalie Mac Berglove.
• Berglove had 31 saves in goal for Saint John's.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg will be the top seed in the all-comers MIAC postseason playoffs, and will face the winner of Wednesday's (2/23) first-round game between No. 9-seed Gustavus and No. 8-seed Hamline in the quarterfinals next Saturday (2/26) at 7 p.m. at Ed Saugestad Rink.
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