MINNEAPOLIS – Goalie
Chloe Stockinger (SR, Sauk Rapids, Minn./Sauk Rapids-Rice HS) stopped all 18 shots she faced to claim her seventh career shutout, as the Augsburg University women's hockey team won its 12th game in its last 14 starts, a 3-0 victory over Concordia College-Moorhead on Saturday afternoon, as the Auggies scored a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference shutout sweep of the Cobbers.
THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 3, Concordia-Moorhead 0
LOCATION: Ed Saugestad Rink, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 15-6-0 overall (11-3-0 MIAC), Concordia 5-15-1 overall (1-12-1 MIAC)
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Augsburg dominated play throughout the contest, outshooting the Cobbers by a 39-18 margin, including a 14-4 advantage in the second period and 12-5 advantage in the third period. Stockinger collected her third shutout in goal this season and seventh in her 58 career games in goal.
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Emily Cronkhite (JR, Eagan, Minn./Eagan HS) scored her team-leading 12th goal of the season at the 17:50 mark of the first period, taking a lead pass from
Emily Schoeberl (SO, Eagan, Minn./Eagan HS), sprinting in from center ice and firing a low wrister from the top of the right faceoff circle.
Elizabeth Fagerlind (JR, Kasson, Minn./Kasson-Mantorville HS) had the second assist.
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Emma Abrahamson (FY, Carpentersville, Minn./Hampshire HS) scored her first collegiate goal at the 4:22 mark of the third period, finishing a break, following a nice flip pass by
Grace Bonnell (FY, Madison, Wis./Memorial HS) to
Malia Schubert (SR, Mantorville, Minn./Kasson-Mantorville HS) to get the puck to center ice.
• The Auggies capped the scoring with 6:04 left to play, as
Dorothy Kearney (SR, Hibbing, Minn./Hibbing HS) tapped home a rebound on a scramble in front of the net, after a Schoeberl shot from the slot was saved and shot on a rebound by
Julianna Teske (SR, Warroad, Minn./Warroad HS).
BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• Augsburg honored seven seniors during a postgame ceremony: Kearney, Schubert, Stockinger, Teske,
Claire Jenkins Coffman (SR, Mount Pleasant, Wis./The Prairie School),
Sydney Rydel (SR, Forest Lake, Minn./Forest Lake HS) and
Kennedy Stein (SR, Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest HS).
• Augsburg claimed a shutout sweep of Concordia, after a 2-0 win on friday. The win marked Augsburg's fifth shutout of the season.
FOR THE FOES
• Hailee Bailey had 36 saves in goal for the Cobbers.
UP NEXT
• Augsburg has an MIAC series against Hamline next weekend. Next Friday's (2/9) game is at 6 p.m. at the TRIA Rink in St. Paul, Minn., and next Saturday's (2/10) game is at 4 p.m. at Ed Saugestad Rink.