Gulls Come Back To Beat Bako In Shootout, 5-4
November 4, 2005 - ECHL (ECHL)
San Diego Gulls News Release
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The offense is alive and well for the San Diego Gulls. They out-shot the Bakersfield Condors 50-28 and came from behind to earn a 5-4 shootout win Friday night at Rabobank Arena. The Gulls now get set for their long-awaited home opener Saturday against the Stockton Thunder.
San Diego (2-5-0) trailed 3-1 after the first period, but out-shot Bakersfield (2-3-0) by a 45-14 margin the remainder of the game and eventually won it on Jesse Bennefield's goal in the fifth round of the shootout.
Darren Clark gave the Gulls an early 1-0 lead just 1:24 into the game. After receiving a pass from Jade Galbraith, Clark skated to the top of the left wing circle and fired a wrist shot that beat Davis Parley. It was San Diego's first goal since lighting the lamp during the second period Saturday in Phoenix (91:23).
The Condors, however, answered with three straight goals throughout the remainder of the first period to grab a 3-1 lead. Sean Venedam was first to strike with a power-play marker at the 2:18 mark. Scott Basiuk blasted a shot from the point that Gulls goaltender Tom Lawson stopped, but the rebound bounced off Venedam into the net.
Peter Metcalf was next, as he tickled the twine at 12:46. Venedam won an endzone faceoff that squirted toward Metcalf, who kicked the puck to his skate, spun around and fired a wrist shot past Lawson. Former Gull Scott Borders then notched another power-play goal at 17:59, converting a rebound off Mike Hofstrand's point shot. It marked the fourth straight game that a former Gull scored against his ex-teammates.
San Diego absolutely dominated the second period, out-shooting Bakersfield 27-7, and tied the game on goals by Guillaume Fournier and Steve Hildenbrand. Fournier's came on the power play at 3:09 after nice setup passes from Pierre-Luc Sleigher and Nikita Korovkin. Sleigher, standing in the right wing circle, took Korovkin's initial feed and quickly centered it to Fournier, who slammed it behind Parley. That broke a string of 26 consecutive failed Gulls power plays.
Parley stood on his head late in the middle frame, turning aside shot after shot... after shot. But he couldn't stop Hildenbrand at the 18:18 mark, as the Gulls centerman fought off a check and whistled a wrister past the busy Bakersfield netminder.
Teams traded power-play goals early in the third, making it a 4-4 game. Sleigher got San Diego's tally 1:10 into the period, sneaking behind the defense and beating Parley glove-side. But the Condors answered at 2:13, as Venedam notched his second of the game after redirecting Basiuk's original shot from the blue line.
Nothing could be settled throughout the remainder of regulation and overtime, so the game headed to a shootout. In the extra frame, Galbraith, Fournier and Bennefield tallied for the Gulls. The only Condor to beat Lawson was Hofstrand.
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