The Austin Bruins opened with a scoring frenzy as they cruised past Bismarck (27-15-6 overall) 8-3 in Riverside Arena Saturday.

The Bruins (36-8-6 overall) scored two goals in the first 35 seconds of the game and they led 5-0 after the first period.

CJ Smith had one goal and four assists for the Bruins and Chris Fischer had two goals and one assist.

Nick Lehr had six saves for Austin and Jason Pawloski had 11 saves.

SCORING SUMMARY

Bismarck 0 2 1 – 3

Austin 5 3 0 – 8

(A) Chris Fischer (Travis Maxwell, CJ Smith) 0:20

(A) John Simonson (Fischer, Smith) 0:35

(A) Riley Colvard (powerplay) (Cody Dixon, Simonson) 3:22

(A) Nate Mondry (Nolan Kirley, Easton Vitala) 9:15

(A) Maxwell (powerplay) (Colvard, Drew Anderson) 18:40

Second period

(A) Josh Bretner (powerplay) (Smith, Jake Flynn) 4:06

(B) Filip Starzynski (Stanislav Dzakhov) 4:45

(A) Fischer (Smith) 5:43

(A) Smith (Grant Eichstadt, Maxwell) 7:20

(B) Ryan Callahan (Patrick Moore) 17:15

Third period

(B) Jeremy Okeefe (Nate Repensky, Adam Knochenmus) 7:05