MINNEAPOLIS -- With four different players recording a goal and assist each, and
Marissa Paaske (SR, Crystal Lake, Ill./Crystal Lake Central stopping all 21 shots she faced in goal, the Augsburg University women's hockey team completed a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference series sweep of Concordia College-Moorhead with a 5-0 win on Saturday afternoon.
THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 5, Concordia-Moorhead 0
LOCATION: Ed Saugestad Rink, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 4-1-0 overall (2-0-0 MIAC), Concordia 0-4-0 overall (0-2-0 MIAC)
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Augsburg, ranked No. 3 in the latest USCHO.com Division III national poll and No. 2 in the D-III Hockey News national poll, outshot the Cobbers by a 34-21 margin, with Paaske making 21 saves to claim her seventh career shutout in goal.
• Lilly Wold (SO, Woodbury, Minn./Tartan HS),
Aunna Schulte (SO, Bolingbrook, Ill./Plainfield East HS),
Emma Brandenburger (SO, Chicago, Ill./Mother McAuley HS) and
Ella Olson (JR, Maple Grove, Minn./Maple Grove HS) had a goal and assist each in the victory.
• Wold scored from Olson at the 4:53 mark of the first period, and Schulte scored from Brandenburger at the 4:12 mark of the second.
• The Auggies scored three goals in the third period, with Brandenburger scoring from Schulte and
Jenna Allen (SO, Minnetonka, Minn./Holy Family Catholic HS),
Kate Haug (SR, Roseville, Minn./Roseville HS) scoring from
Emma Abrahamson (JR, Carpentersville, Ill./Hampshire HS) and
Nora Stepan (SR, Apple Valley, Minn./Eastview HS), and Olson scoring from Wold and Stepan.
FOR THE FOES
• Abby Huselid had 29 saves in goal for Concordia.
UP NEXT
• Augsburg has an MIAC series against the College of St. Scholastica next weekend, with next Friday's (11/21) game at 6 p.m. at Ed Saugestad Rink, and next Saturday's (11/22) game at 4 p.m. at the Mars Lakeview Arena in Duluth, Minn.