Wilderness sweeps Austin with 4-2 win

Published 10:57 pm Saturday, December 16, 2017

The Austin Bruins lost for the second time in two nights to the Minnesota Wilderness, this time on the road, 4-2.

The Wilderness jumped out to a two-goal lead after one period before the Bruins could get on the board when Travis Kothenbeutel scored his 10th goal of the season at 15:41 of the second period.

But the Wilderness answered back just three minutes later and added some cushion in the third period.

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Austin’s only other goal came when Jaden Shields scored at 18:04 of the third.

Alex Schilling faced 38 shots, making saves on 34 of those shots.

Scoring summary

Austin 0 1 1 — 2

Wilderness 2 1 1 — 4

First period

(MNW) — Ondrej Trejbal (Luke Dow, Edward Lindelow), 13:18

(MNW) — Nicholas Michel (Isaac Moberg), 17:32

Second period

(A) — Travis Kothenbeutel (Dante Sheriff), 15:41

(MNW) — Isaac Kobienie (Nikolai Lyssogor, Nathan Horn) PP, 18:06

Third period

(MNW) — Kosta Likourezos (Nathan Horn), 2:05

(A) — Jaden Shield (Garrettt Dahm) SH, 18:04

Shots: Austin — 38; Wilderness 38

Powerplays: Austin — 0-1; Wilderness 1-5