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March 23, 2002 - Major Indoor Soccer League 2 (MISL 2)
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Knowles scores eight points as Harrisburg downs the Blast

Harrisburg, PA - Matt Knowles scored eight points and Doug Petras made 19 saves as the Harrisburg Heat ended an eight-game losing streak with a 22-13 victory over the archrival Baltimore Blast in front of 4,282 fans at the Farm Show Arena on Saturday night. Denison Cabral scored seven points (3pg, two 2pgs) to lead the Blast.

Harrisburg came out of the gates at a full sprint, using 16 first-quarter shots to build a 5-2 lead. Knowles opened the night's scoring with a deuce at 4:11, and Tanzini squirmed a long three-point restart under Blast keeper Scott Hileman (20 saves) at 10:11 to make it 5-0 before Denison Cabral got the Blast on the board with a 2pg at 13:40.

Just 18 seconds into the second, Knowles cracked home a restart service from Zoran Karic (who was limited to restart duty in the game) to make it 7-2, and Knowles struck again at 3:59 when his drive from beyond the three-point arc whizzed over Hileman for a 10-2 Heat lead. Cabral ended the first-half scoring with a 2pg at 9:58, and Harrisburg led 10-4 at halftime.

Giuliano Celenza finished a cross from Danny Kelly at 3:00 of the third to bring the Heat to within 10-6, but Wendell Regis put a 2pg past Hileman at 5:37 to make it 12-6. Danny Santoro had the answer at 13:54, deflecting an errant Petras ball into an empty net to make it 12-8. Tanzini ended the third-quarter scoring with a two-point restart goal at 14:37 to make it 14-10 going into the fourth.

Paul Wright's goal at 1:23 of the fourth made it 14-10, Heat, but Mike Feniger (activated on Saturday by the Heat) one-timed a perfect feed from Danny Barber over Hileman at 10:25 for a 16-10 lead. With Wright on as the sixth attacker, Cabral slammed home a 3pg to make it 16-13, and the Blast was on the comeback. Harrisburg responded with two empty-net 3pgs - by Jason Webb at 13:41 and a lob from beyond midfield by Regis at 14:17 - to seal the final 22-13 score.

NOTES: This game, the first Heat-Blast matchup since a March 3 contest which ended in a substantial brawl, featured no penalties...Coming into the game, the last time the Heat had scored 20 or more points was on January 26, 2001 in a 21-15 win over Philadelphia...The Heat scored a season-high five restart goals in the contest...Harrisburg travels to Baltimore tomorrow, Sunday the 24th, to face the Blast. Game time at Baltimore Arena is 3:05 p.m.



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