The Austin Bruins came out strong as they topped the Aberdeen Wings (8-12-2-1 overall) 6-4 in Riverside Arena Friday night.

The Bruins (11-8-2-2 overall) seized a 3-1 lead in the first period, but the Wings tied things up at 4-4 late in the second period. Just one minute leader, Austin’s Peter Zsombor-Garat scored to give the Bruins the lead for good.

Jake Kucharski had 24 saves in net for Austin.

SCORING SUMMARY

Aberdeen 1  3  0  —  4

Austin 3  2  1  —  6

First period

(A) Tanner Dufault (Logan Haskins, Jon Richards) 1:00

(AB) Zach Noble (Riley Murphy) 9:58

(A) Logan Haskins (Jon Richards, Jaden Schields) 11:54

(A) Travis Kothenbeutel (AJ Drobot, John Wojciechowski) (power play) 16:33

Second period

(AB) Nick Jenny (Trystan Isenhour, Shawn Knowlton) :17

(AB) Isenhour (Joey Strada, Jenny) (power play) 3:44

(A) Cole Lawrence (Wojciechowski, Micahel Piehler) 5:15

(AB) Kevin Fitzgerald (Keenan Spillum, Carson Dimoff) 18:03

(A) Peter Zsombor-Garat (Evan Cholak, Tanner Dufault) 19:04

Third period

(A) Drobot (Cholak, Kothenbeutel) (empty net) 19:06

Shots — Austin — 21; Aberdeen — 28

Power plays: Austin — 1-for-6; Aberdeen — 1-for-4