The Austin Bruins weren’t able to close a late gap as they lost 4-2 to the Brookings Blizzard (9-5 overall) on the road Friday.

Evan Cholak scored his second goal of the night to bring the Bruins (4-4-1-2 overall) within 3-2 with 1:11 left in the third period, but Vince Marino scored 46 seconds later to ice the game for Brookings.

Alex Schilling had 29 saves in the loss for Austin.

SCORING SUMMARY

Austin 0  1  1  —   2

Brookings 0  2  2  —   4

First period

No scoring

Second period

(B) Josh Boyer (Doug Larson) (power play) 1:23

(A) Evan Cholak (power play) 15:53

(B) Jimmy Elder (Vince Marino) 19:17

Third period

(B) Andriy Denyskin (power play) 16:22

(A) Cholak 18:49

(B) Vince Marino (Josh Boyer, Brendan Aird) 19:35

Shots: Austin — 29; Brookings — 33

Power plays: Austin — 0-for-1; Brookings — 0-for-2