The Austin Bruins scored a late goal to force an extra session, but they couldn’t cash in on the opportunity as they lost to the Minot Minotauros (16-8-2-1 overall) 3-2 in Riverside Arena Saturday.

Ben Almquist scored his 17th goal of the season with just one second remaining in the third period for Austin, but the Bruins went 0-for-3 in the shootout.

Andranik Armstrong-Kingkade scored the only shootout goal in three attempts for Minot.

Brett Miller stopped 27 of 29 shots for Austin (14-9-2-3 overall).

SCORING SUMMARY
Minot 0 1 1 0 1 – 3
Austin 1 0 1 0 0 – 2

First period
(A) Connor Mylymok (Dante Sheriff, Jaden Shields) power play) 18:58

Second period
(M) Andranik Armstrong-Kingkade (Ville Immonen (power play) 9:45

Third period
(M) Owen Baumgartner (Immonen) 4:12
(A) Ben Alquist (Dante Sheriff, Mylymok) 19:59

OT
No scoring

Shots: Austin – 33; Minot – 30
Power plays: Austin 1-for-3; Minot – 1-for-7