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1-3-0 MIAC, 2-6-1 Overall
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Augsburg 7, Saint Mary's 2 / Details
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Cardinal News and Notes:
The Cardinals equalled their highest offensive output of the season with Saturday's 6-3 win vs. Augsburg. … Adam Gill (Rochester, Minn.) scored once in both games vs. the Auggies, pushing his team-leading total to six goals in nine games. … Gill also shares the team lead in points (7) with Adam Fingerhut (Oak Brook, Ill.), while David Gross' (Grasston, Minn.) five assists are a team-high. … Tim McNamara (Hastings, Minn.) scored twice in Saturday's win. … Goalie Nick Berra (St. Louis, Mo.) recorded his first collegiate win in Saturday's win over Augsburg, stopping 24 of the 27 shots he faced. … The Cardinals scored first in both games vs. the Auggies — snapping a streak of seven straight games in which SMU's opponent had scored the game's first goal. … Both of SMU's wins have come on the road — the Cardinals are 0-2-1 on their home ice.
Cardinals' performances are like night and day as
SMU salvages MIAC split with 7-2 loss, 6-3 victory

WINONA, Minn. —
Who's Hot?

Nick
Berra
24 saves vs.
Augsburg for
1st career win
Talk about going to the extremes.

The Saint Mary's University men's hockey team turned in one of its worst performances of the season last Friday evening, giving up seven goals — and putting together a lackluster effort — in falling to Augsburg 7-2.

Twenty-four hours later, SMU and Augsburg squared off again, and this time, the Cardinals put together one of their best showings of the season, scoring three times in the third period en route to a 6-3 victory.

"I don't know what happened in that 24-hour span, but we went from playing some of the worst hockey we've played, to some of the best," said SMU coach Don Olson. "We played so poorly (Friday) that I really didn't know what to expect from them (Saturday).

"It was like night and day," continued Olson, whose team was outshot 44-25 and outworked at both ends of the rink in Friday's setback — then held the Auggies to just five shots through the first 34 minutes of Saturday's game. "We played so much better (Saturday). We moved the puck around, we beat them to all the loose pucks.

"It was much more the way I expect this team to play."

Tim McNamara (Hastings, Minn.) got the Cardinals on the board seven minutes into the opening period Saturday, and Travis VanDynHoven (River Falls, Wis.) followed that up with his first of the season at 12:20 to give SMU a 2-0 advantage after one period.

Graham Murphy (Webster Groves, Mo.) made it 3-0 SMU three minutes into the second period, but back-to-back Auggie goals in the final four minutes of the period made it a one-goal game heading into the final 20 minutes.

The two teams traded goals early in the third — SMU's coming off the stick of defenseman Tom Stewart (Eden Prairie, Minn.) — and the Cardinals iced it with a pair of empty netters, the first by Adam Gill (Rochester, Minn.) and the second by McNamara to post their first MIAC win of the season.

"It was great to see this team bounce back the way they did," said Olson. "Hopefully, they also learned how important it is to come to the rink and compete for a full 60 minutes."