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Medrick Bolduc
0
Northern Mich. NMU 2-5-0, 0-1-0
12
Winner Augustana (SD) AUG 6-0-1, 1-0-0
Northern Mich. NMU
2-5-0, 0-1-0
0
Final
12
Augustana (SD) AUG
6-0-1, 1-0-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 F
Northern Mich. NMU 0 0 0 0
Augustana (SD) AUG 3 5 4 12

Game Recap: Hockey | | Braden Golisek - Assistant Director of Sports Information

Wildcats on the wrong end of Vikings’ historic night

Vikings score most goals in a single game in program history

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- The NMU hockey team fell to the Augustana Vikings in Friday night's opening CCHA game.

The Wildcats (2-5-0, 0-1-0 CCHA) fell 12-0 to the Vikings (6-0-1, 1-0-0 CCHA), who remain undefeated through its first seven contests of the season. Heath Nelson (2-3--5) and Leonid Bulgakov (1-3--4) led the Vikings, and Mathis Langevin made a 19-save shutout for the first of his career.

The Vikings' 12 tallies marked the program's single-game high, breaking the previous record of seven (7–4 victory against Omaha on December 19, 2025, at Midco Arena). 

Goaltender Oliver Auyeung-Ashton was unavailable, and Max Weilandt made his first start of the campaign. Netminder Jack Fuller relieved Weilandt in the second period; the netminder's first career collegiate game.

Branden Piku, Mathew Ward, Michael Burchill, and Evan Depatie all posted four shot attempts; Peter Cisar led the 'Cats with three blocks, and Owen Pitters won 11 of his 18 faceoffs.

A deflection in the slot off a shot from the point, a third-chance opportunity after Weilandt made two excellent saves, and a Bulgakov breakaway that trickled over the line gave the Vikings a 3-0 lead after the first period.

A back-door power-play goal and a nifty breakaway goal saw the end of Weilandt's night, and Fuller was called in relief. The Vikings scored on its first shot against the new netminder, and Burch and Marshchanok added two more tallies to close the period.

Baumgartner added his second point of the evening to open scoring in the final frame before adding an assist on Meerman's goal at 6:58 of the third. Tallies from Frandel and Langus at 11:34 and 13:16 brought the final to 12-0.

The Wildcats finish the road trip to South Dakota on Halloween, with game two from Midco Arena coming on Saturday, October 31, at 7:07 p.m. ET. 





 
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