MINNEAPOLIS – Tenley Stewart (SO, Esko, Minn./Esko HS) scored the game-winning goal 2:37 into overtime, giving the Augsburg University women's hockey team its seventh straight victory and a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference series sweep of Bethel University, with a 2-1 win on Saturday afternoon.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 2, Bethel 1 (OT)
LOCATION: Ed Saugestad Rink, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 10-4-0 overall (6-2-0 MIAC), Bethel 7-5-1 overall (3-4-1 MIAC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Stewart scored her second goal of the season, and first game-winning goal of her collegiate career, at the 2:37 mark of the 3-on-3 overtime session, pouncing on a rebound in front following a shot off a drive from the right side by Emily Cronkhite (JR, Eagan, Minn./Eagan HS).
• Kennedy Stein (SR, Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest HS) opened the scoring for Augsburg with an unassisted goal 6:42 into the game. She drove into the offensive zone, but the puck was tipped away from her and guided back to the boards. She gathered up the loose puck and deposited it in the net for her sixth goal of the season.
• Augsburg dominated the first two periods, outshooting Bethel by a 28-11 margin. But the Royals bounced back in the third frame, outshooting the Auggies 9-8 and tying the game with a power-play goal at the 5:39 mark.
• The Auggies ended up with a 39-21 shots-on-goal advantage in the game. Marissa Paaske (SO, Crystal Lake, Ill./Crystal Lake Central HS) had 20 saves in goal for the Auggies, improving to 3-1-0 on the season.
• Augsburg again controlled possession of the draws, winning 34-of-54 (63.0 percent) of its faceoffs. Center Sydney Rydel (SR, Forest Lake, Minn./Forest Lake HS) went 17-of-23 on faceoffs.

FOR THE FOES
• Lindsey Muntifering scored a power-play goal from Beth Velasco in the third period for Bethel.
• Royal goalie Anna Hanson had 37 saves.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg faces defending NCAA Division III national champion Gustavus Adolphus College in an MIAC series next Friday and Saturday (1/19-20).