Bruins beat Ice Wolves, fall to Brown Bears

Published 3:35 pm Monday, September 23, 2019

The Austin Bruins wrapped up play at the NAHL Showcase by beating the New Mexico Ice Wolves 3-0 on Friday and falling to the Kenai River Brown Bears 4-3 in a shootout in Blaine Saturday.

The Bruins went 0-for-3 in the shootout against the Brown Bears and Laudon Poellinger scored the game-winnner for Keani River.

Zach Hansen stopped all 21 of the shots he saw against New Mexico to pick up a shoutout for the Bruins (2-2 overall).


Friday’s game

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SCORING SUMMARY
New Mexico 0 0 0 – 0
Austin 1 1 1 – 3

First period
(A) Ben Almquist (Dante Sheriff, Oskar Stahl) 11:56

Second period
(A) Barrett Brooks (Cullen Rush, Tiernan Shoudy) 6:33

Third period
(A) Sheriff (Devon Fields, Jed Pietila) 6:50

Shots: Austin – 37; New Mexico – 21
Power plays: Austin – 0-for-2; New Mexico – 0-for-0


Saturday’s game

SCORING SUMMARY
Austin 0 2 1 0 0 – 3
Kenai River 2 1 0 0 1 – 4

First period
(KR) Logan (Ritchie 1:58
(KR) Ritchie (Laudon Poellinger) 13:57

Second period
(A) Kevin Gabor 8:05
(A) Shoudy (Peter Jacobs, Josef Mysak) 17:15
(KR) Robert McCollum (power play) 19:51

Third period
(A) Hugh Larkin (Sheriff) (power play) 14:42

Shots: Austin – 41; Kenai River – 22
Power plays: Austin – 0-for-1; Kenai River – 0-for-1