The Austin Bruins lost to the Bismarck Bobcats 4-2 on the road Saturday.

Kyle McClellan stopped 27 of the 29 shots he saw in net for Austin (30-19-6 overall).

Austin is in fourth place in the NAHL Central Division with 66 points. Minot is in second with 68 points and the Bobcats (31-18-3-2 overall) are in third place with 67 points. Aberdeen has clinched the division with 87 points.

Austin has five regular season games remaining.

SCORING SUMMARY

Austin  0 0 2  – 2
Bismarck 0 2 2 –  4

First period
(B) Daniel Chladek (Sam Malinski, Willy Stauber) :46
(B) Tim Piechowski (Malinski, Austin Jouppi) 14:51

Second period
No scoring

Third period
(B) Jacob Marti (Bartek Bison, Malinski) 7:05
(A) Dante Zapata (Jared Christy, Kyle Herbster) 10:41
(A) Zapata (Garrett Dahm, Josef Mysak) (power play) 12:38
(B) Adam Stacho (power play, empty net) 19:16