MINNEAPOLIS -- The St. Olaf College men's hockey team built a 4-0 lead and claimed a 5-2 upset victory over top-seed Augsburg University in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Playoff Championship Game on Saturday evening. 

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: St. Olaf 5, Augsburg 2
LOCATION: Ed Saugestad Rink, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 24-4-0 overall, St. Olaf 11-14-3 overall

HOW IT HAPPENED
• St. Olaf, the No. 7 seed in the all-comers MIAC postseason playoffs, beat the No. 2, No. 3 and No. 1 seeds in successive games to claim the MIAC playoff title and the conference's automatic berth in the 12-team NCAA Division III national tournament.
• The Oles built a 4-0 lead early in the third period, before Augsburg got on the board with a power-play goal at the 10:31 mark, as Jarod Blackowiak (SR, Eden Prairie, Minn./Eden Prairie HS) scored from Fritz Belisle (JR, Red Wing, Minn./Roseville HS) and Grant Reichenbacher (JR, Verona, Wis./Madison Edgewood HS).
• St. Olaf added an empty-net goal with 3:34 left to play, and Augsburg capped the scoring with a goal from Austin Dollimer (SR, Rosemount, Minn./Rosemount HS) with 47 seconds left, assisted by Austin Martinsen (SR, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS).
• St. Olaf held a 29-27 advantage in shots on-goal, including a 10-4 advantage in the first period and 12-8 advantage in the third period.
• Jack Robbel (JR, Bloomington, Minn./Shattuck-St. Mary's HS) had 24 saves in goal for the Auggies.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• Augsburg will learn its NCAA Division III postseason fate on Monday (3/7) at 9 a.m. Central time, as the selections to the 12-team national tournament are announced on an NCAA.com webcast. St. Olaf will be one of the eight teams receiving "Pool A" automatic bids to the national tournament, while Augsburg will aim for one of the four "Pool C" at-large bids. Augsburg has been ranked No. 4 in the USCHO.com Division III national poll for most of the season, and dropped from the No. 2 spot to the No. 4 spot in the Division III PairWise rankings on Saturday, which is the main determiner for national tournament bids.
• With one conference championship game remaining on Sunday, Augsburg is currently the highest-ranked "Pool C" team in the PairWise rankings, behind "Pool A" bids Adrian (Mich.), Utica (N.Y.) and Geneseo (N.Y.). St. Norbert, which lost 12-3 to Adrian in the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association title game on Saturday, is just behind Augsburg at No. 5 in the PairWise rankings.

FOR THE FOES
• Jonathan Young scored two goals for St. Olaf, adding an assist for a three-point night. Matthew Pointer, Sean Walsh and Brendan Darby also scored for the Oles.
• Lukas Haugen had 25 saves in goal for the Oles.