MINNEAPOLIS – Sydney Rydel (SR, Forest Lake, Minn./Forest Lake HS) scored her second goal of the game on a breakaway 1:44 into the 3-on-3 overtime, giving the Augsburg University women's hockey team a 5-4 victory over No. 2-ranked Gustavus Adolphus College, splitting a key Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference series on Saturday afternoon.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 5, Gustavus 4 (OT)
LOCATION: Ed Saugestad Rink, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 11-5-0 overall (7-3-0 MIAC), Gustavus 12-3-0 overall (9-1-0 MIAC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• All three skaters on the ice in the 3-on-3 overtime contributed to the game-winning goal. Elizabeth Fagerlind (JR, Kasson, Minn./Kasson-Mantorville HS) gained the puck on the halfwall in her own zone, and tapped the puck to Kennedy Stein (SR, Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest HS). Stein then pushed the puck forward to a sprinting Rydel, who deposited it in the net for her fifth goal of the season and the first multi-goal game of her collegiate career.
• Gustavus scored twice in the opening 11 minutes of play, including a goal 26 seconds into play, and had the first 10 shots on-goal of the game. But Augsburg worked itself back into the contest, scoring twice in a 1:29 span midway through the second period to tie the game. The teams exchanged goals after that, with the Auggies tying the game at 4-4 on Stein's eighth goal of the season, a rising shot off a steal by Claire Jenkins Coffman (SR, Mount Pleasant, Wis./The Prairie School), with 8:21 remaining in regulation.
• The trio of Emily Cronkhite (JR, Eagan, Minn./Eagan HS), Ella Olson (FY, Maple Grove, Minn./Maple Grove HS) and Nora Stepan (SO, Apple Valley, Minn./Eastview HS) gave the Auggies their first two goals of the game. Cronkhite scored her eighth goal of the season at the 9:43 mark of the second period, scoring on a breakaway from Olson and Stepan. Olson then scored the seventh goal of her rookie campaign at the 11:12 mark, scoring from the right faceoff dot on a rebound of a shot from the point by Stepan. Cronkhite had the second assist.
• Gustavus took the lead with a goal with 4:01 left to play in the second period, but Rydel tied the game with a power-play goal with 56 seconds left in the frame, tipping home a shot from the point by Stein following a feed by Tenley Stewart (SO, Esko, Minn./Esko HS).
• After withstanding the opening 10-shot barrage, the Auggies outshot the Gusties by a 33-28 margin the rest of the way. Goalie Chloe Stockinger (SR, Sauk Rapids, Minn./Sauk Rapids-Rice HS) had a season-high 34 saves for the Auggies, improving to 8-4-0 on the year.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• Augsburg snapped an 18-game winning streak in MIAC regular-season conference play by the Gusties, the defending NCAA Division III national champions and current No. 2-ranked team in the latest USCHO.com Division III national rankings. The Gusties' last conference loss also came to the Auggies, a 3-2 overtime decision on Jan. 20, 2023 in Minneapolis.

FOR THE FOES
• Four different players scored goals for the Gusties -- Emily Olson, Hailey Holland, Molly McHugh and Brooke Power. Lily Mortenson had two assists.
• Gustavus goalie Katie McCoy had 28 saves.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg returns to MIAC play next weekend with a series against Saint Benedict. Next Friday's (1/26) game is at 7 p.m. at the Municipal Athletic Complex in St. Cloud, Minn., and next Saturday's (1/27) game is at 4 p.m. at Ed Saugestad Rink.