SPHL Peoria Rivermen

Rivermen Outlast Ice Bears 3-2 in OT Saturday

Published on November 14, 2015 under SPHL (SPHL)
Peoria Rivermen News Release


PEORIA, IL - The Peoria Rivermen and Knoxville Ice Bears played 60 minutes of 2-2 hockey before Garrett Vermeersch scored the game winner 1:16 into overtime to beat the Ice Bears 3-2 at Carver Arena Saturday night. The win, Peoria's fourth in a row, lifts the Rivermen to 5-2-0 before a three game series on their home ice against Louisiana next Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

The Ice Bears scored first with 6:12 gone by in the first period and a five-on-three powerplay, a result of a five-minute major boarding penalty to Matt Summers and a charging call on Dan Bremner, the former also giving Summers a game misconduct. With the man advantage Todd Hosmer took a backdoor feed at the post and put it past Rivermen netminder Kyle Rank for the 1-0 lead. The Rivermen tied the game with 18:26 left in the first when Jake Trask took a pass across the goalmouth and put it past a sprawled Braely Torris into the Knoxville net to make it 1-1.

The Ice Bears re-took the lead shorthanded with 14:30 to go in the second period as a loose puck in front of the Rivermen net was fired past Rank by Zack LaRue for the 2-1 IceBears lead. The Rivermen knotted it up with 10:06 to play in the second stanza as Alec Hagaman took a feed behind the net from Brandon Greenside and sniped it home for the 2-2 tie.

The two teams played scoreless through the final 30 minutes of regulation before going to overtime. The Rivermen notched the game-winner in OT as Garrett Vermeersch buried one from the deep slot assisted by Mike Slowikowski and Trask for the 3-2 Peoria win.

Kyle Rank earned his third straight win in net for the Rivermen, stopping 28 of 30 shots for the victory. Rank did not allow a goal in the game's final 35:46 of play, including overtime.

Notes: The game-winning goal was Vermeersch's first tally of the season to go with four assists...Vermeersch is now tied with Timmy Hall for the team lead at five points...Trask's multi-point game is his first since march 15 of last season at Fayetteville...Hagaman has scored three goals in his last three games...The Rivermen have won both of their overtime games this season, with both OT game-winners coming in the second minute of the extra time...The Rivermen continue their string of home games when they begin a three-game series with the Louisiana IceGators next Friday night at 7:05...The broadcast can be heard, starting with the pregame show at 6:45 at portal.stretchinternet.com/rivermen

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