St. Norbert is headed back to the Frozen Four. The Green Knights will be making their 12th appearance after rolling past Augsburg, 5-2, Saturday in the quarterfinal round of the NCAA tournament. The 12th trip is the most in NCAA Division III history.<\/p>\n
The top-ranked Green Knights, now 25-4-1, defeated the 11th-ranked Auggies in the tournament for the third consecutive year, and their win streak now stands at 10 games.<\/p>\n
St. Norbert jumped in front 3-0 before the Auggies cut the lead to one thanks to goals from Chandler Madry and Luke Dietsch.<\/p>\n
Luke Karakas, Chris Rygus, and Peter Bates staked the Green Knights to a 3-0 advantage.<\/p>\n
Timmy Nicksic and Keegan Milligan finished off the scoring in the third period. Dominick Saaco tallied three assists, and Alfred Johansson dished out two assists.<\/p>\n
St. Norbert finished the game with a 36-25 advantage in shots. T.J. Black tallied 23 saves. Nick Schmit made 31 saves for Augsburg, which ends the year at 19-10.<\/p>\n
The Green Knights now turn their attention to the national semifinals Friday against Colby in Lake Placid, New York.<\/p>\n
Pointers punch ticket to Frozen Four<\/strong> The Pointers are now 21-5-3 on the season. Kelly O’Brien gave Wis.-Stevens Point a 1-0 lead just over a minute into the game.<\/p>\n The Pointers stretched their lead to 3-0 thanks to a pair of goals from Zach Zech in a span of 4:31 in the opening period of play. The lead proved to be too much for the Bulldogs to overcome.<\/p>\n Taylor McCloy and Trevor Boyd made things interesting in the second period, both scoring to trim the Pointers’ lead to 3-2. Nathan Harris scored his first goal of the year to put Wis.-Stevens Point up 4-2, and Brennen Miller finished off the scoring with 32 seconds left.<\/p>\n Kevin Entmaa made 13 saves, and Dillon Kelley stopped 21 shots for the Bulldogs, who end the year with a 24-6 record.<\/p>\n Max Milosek made 32 saves for the Pointers, who will take on Salve Regina Friday in Lake Placid with a trip to the national championship game on the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" St. Norbert is headed back to the Frozen Four. The Green Knights will be making their 12th appearance after rolling past Augsburg, 5-2, Saturday in the quarterfinal round of the NCAA tournament. The 12th trip is the most in NCAA Division III history. The top-ranked Green Knights, now 25-4-1, defeated the 11th-ranked Auggies in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425],"tags":[1469,1470],"coauthors":[821],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nWisconsin-Stevens Point skated to a Frozen Four appearance Friday with a 5-2 win Saturday over second-ranked Adrian on the road.<\/p>\n