The Austin Bruins survived a wild third period against the Minnesota Wilderness as they won 5-4 in Riverside Arena Friday.

The Wilderness (18-15-3-1 overall) scored three goals in the third period, but it wasn’t enough as Austin’s Travis Kothenbeutel scored to put Austin up 5-3 with 3:45 left in the game.

Jan Stefka and Cole Lawrence each had two goals for the Bruins (17-16-2-2 overall and Jake Kucharski had 27 saves to get the win.

SCORING SUMMARY

Wilderness 1  0  3  —  4

Austin 2  2  1  —  5

First period

(A) Jan Stefka (Evan Cholak) 4:28

(M) Micahel Zuffante (Zach Mills, Bryceton Butkiewicz) 13:20

(A) Stefka (Toby Sengvongxay, Dante Zapata) (power play) 18:42

Second period

(A) Cole Lawrence (Justin Misiak) 0:55

(A) Lawrence (Misiak, Jon Richards) 11:39

Third period

(M) Zach Mills (Butkiewicz, Tim Nicksic) 2:37

(M) Zuffante (Luke Dow) 11:15

(A) Travis Kothenbeutel (Cholak, Stefka) 16:15

(M) Charlie Parker (Nicksic, Pavel Mikhasenok) 19:32

Shots: Austin — 23; Wilderness — 31

Power plays: Austin — 1-for-5; Wilderness — 0-for-6