Royals Blast Bullies 5-1

April 2, 2005 - ECHL (ECHL)
Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies News Release

Reading, PA – Preston Mizzi and Cail MacLean each tallied a pair of goals and Reading used a four-goal first period to defeat the Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies 5-1 before 6724 at the Sovereign Center in ECHL action Saturday. The Bullies magic number for clinching a playoff spot remains at three.

Reading (40-20-7) jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the game's first eight minutes. Mizzi opened the scoring when he angled his way around Ryan Reid to the front of the net and slipped the puck through Bullies goaltender Trevor Koenig at 3:41 to give the Royals a 1-0 lead. Mizzi made it 2-0 when off a Bullies turnover, he received a centering feed from Larry Courville at the right-wing circle and beat Koenig with a snap shot over the left shoulder at 5:59. Reading would extend their lead to 3-0 with a power play goal at 7:20. Cail MacLean deflected Tom Galvin's point shot off Koenig and then collected his own rebound and stuffed the puck through Koenig's pads. David Masse finished the Royals scoring in the first period with a shot from the left wall that got past a screened Koenig at 19:07 to give Reading a 4-0 lead going into the first intermission.

MacLean notched his second power play goal of the game, taking a cross-ice feed from David Masse in the right corner and tipping the puck past goaltender Jeff Weber on in replace of Koenig at 16:11 to give Reading a 5-0 lead after two periods.

Ryan Reid notched his first professional goal at 6:23 of the third period for Atlantic City (40-22-8) to snap Reading goaltender Barry Brust's attempt at a shutout.

Reading out-shot Atlantic City 32-26. Koenig stopped 7 shots in the first period in suffering the loss to fall to 26-13-4 on the season. The Bullies went 0-6 on the power play.

Atlantic City returns to Historic Boardwalk Hall at 7:05PM on Friday, April 8 for "Fan Appreciation Night as they welcome the Reading Royals. It's the final home game of the regular season. The Bullies will salute their fans one final time by giving away an assortment of prizes to everyone in attendance. For more information or to order tickets, call (609) 348-PUCK.

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