Ice Dogs Fall to Condors, 7-2

Published on January 18, 2003 under ECHL (ECHL)
Long Beach Ice Dogs News Release


LONG BEACH, Calif. – The Ice Dogs allowed three goals in the first five shots taken by the Bakersfield Condors en route to a 7-2 loss Saturday night at Long Beach Arena. It was the eighth loss in nine games and the fourth consecutive defeat for Long Beach (13-21-2), which next travels to Fresno Sunday.

Bakersfield (20-12-5) began the opening period's four-goal onslaught with Christoffer Norgren's power-play goal 1:24.

J.P. O'Connor interrupted Bakersfield's drive with a slap shot to tie the game for the Ice Dogs at 2:39, before Jamie Cooke scored his first goal of the night 22 seconds later to put the Condors up 2-1 at 3:01 in the first. Bakersfield went on to score another pair of goals before the period's end from Paul Rosebush and Jeff Goldie.

The Ice Dogs substituted Mike Buzak for B.J. Boxma after Rosenbush's goal at 3:01 in the first.

Cooke scored his second goal of the night and Jason Ralph registered his second point and first goal in the second period to increase the Condors' lead to 6-1.

After Nate Anderson extended the lead, 7-1, in favor of Bakersfield, the Ice Dogs' Zdenek Vanc scored his second goal in two games and broke Long Beach's 16-game power-play skid. The streak began at 10:04 in the third on Dec. 6 and ended at 14:21 in the third, a span of 384:17—making it the first power-play goal in 78 opportnities.

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