Alex Laurenza registered a hat trick for the Austin Bruins as they completed a weekend sweep over the Minnesota Mallards (6-13-0-1 overall) with a 5-3 win in Riverside Arena Saturday. Laurenza scored two first period goals and he added a third score in the final period. He now has 17 goals on the season. Jack Solomon had 17 saves for Austin (11-5-0-1 overall). SCORING SUMMARY Austin 3 1 1  –  5 Mallards 0 2 1  –  3 First period (A) Alex Laurenza (Ludvig Mellgren, Luc Malkhassian) 10:34 (A) Ashton Bynum (Nathan Williams, Connor Beckwith) 11:10 (A) Laurenza (EJ Paddington, Mellgren) 14:11 Second period (M) Benjamin Tauscher (Brayden Kaldenbach, Hunter Hayes) 0:41 (A) Gustav Svantesson (Beckwith, Mellgren) 15:58 (M) Tauscher (Trey Gnetz, Hunter Hayes) 16:50 Third period (M) Eli Bailey (Brayden Kaldenbach, Mitch Vanderway) 4:03 (A) Laurenza (Luc Malkhassian, Evan Malkhassian) 12:08 The post Laurenza leads Bruins to a weekend sweep of Mallards appeared first on Austin Daily Herald.