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The Austin Bruins opened their season with a 5-1 win over the Bulls in Mason City, Iowa Saturday.

Alex Laurenza scored two goals and he added two assists for Austin and EJ Paddington scored twice.

Jack Solomon stopped 11 shots in net for Austin.

SCORING SUMMARY

Austin 2 1 2 –  5

NI 0 0 1 –  1

First period

(A) Connor Beckwith (Ludvig Mellgren,Nathan Williams) 9:29

(A) EJ Paddington (Luc Malkhassian, Alex Laurenza)12:10

Second period

(A) Alex Laurenza (Paddington, Malkhassian) 1:39

Third period

(NI) Luke Gustafson (Max Ferkodic, Matthew Munro) 7:40

(A) Paddington (Luk Malkhassian, Laurenza) 8:10

(A) Laurenza (Ryan Lunk, Malkhassian) 18:18