Wilderness force a game four against Bruins

Published 9:37 pm Friday, April 20, 2018

The Austin Bruins weren’t able to wrap up their five-game series with the Minnesota Wilderness yet as they lost 3-2 in game three in Cloquet Friday night.

Austin now has a 2-1 series lead and it will try to win the series when it plays the Wilderness in Cloquet at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday.

Austin’s Che Landikusic and Valdemar Ahlberg each scored second period goals to tie the game at 2-2 in second period, but the Wilderness score the game-winning goal when Alex Spencer scored with 15:34 left in the game.

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Alex Schilling had 22 saves for Austin.

Austin Bruins’ forward Evan Cholak escapes from Minnesota Wilderness’ Andrew Troy for a scoring chance during Friday night’s NAHL playoff series game 3 at Northwoods Credit Union Arena in Cloquet. Photos courtesy Dave Harwig

SCORING SUMMARY

Bruins 0 2 0    2

Wilderness 2 0 1    3

First period

(M) Luke Dow (Gino Lucia) 12:43

(M) Dow (Eric Gotz) 19:31

Second period

(A) Che Landikusic (Alex Mella) 1:21

(A) Valdemar Ahlberg (Landikusic, Levi Stauber) 16:19

Third period

(M) Alex Spencer (Alex Truscott) 4:26

Shots: Bruins — 40; Wilderness — 25

Power plays: Bruins — 0-for-3; Wilderness — 0-for-1