Sea Wolves Eat Fish
October 13, 2002 - ECHL (ECHL)
Baton Rouge Kingfish News Release
The Baton Rouge Kingfish could not overcome a 3-0 deficit to the Mississippi Sea Wolves as they fell 3-2 in their second contest of the season.
Cody Bowtell opened the scoring at the mid way mark of the first period as he beat Jeff Blair on a tic-tac-toe play from Steffon Walby and Jim Baxter on the power play.
Five minutes later, Dave Paradise slipped the puck past Blair giving the Sea Wolves the 2-0 lead. Walby and Jason Crain added the assists on the goal.
Travis Lisabeth picked up the game winner on the power play at the 11:32 mark of the second period as Jim Baxter and Cody Bowtell added the assists.
The third period belonged to the Kingfish as they picked up two power play tallies to cut into the Sea Wolves' lead.
Clark Jones picked up his first of the season as he pushed a loose puck past an outstretched Greg Gardner at the 6:13 mark of the third. Steve Cheredaryk and Glenn Crawford added the assists.
The Kingfish power play continued to click in the third period as Bryan Richardson beat Gardner to cut the lead to one, but the Kingfish could get no closer. Jones and Cheredaryk added the helpers on the goal.
Baton Rouge replaced Blair with an extra attacker late in the third period, but couldn't get one past Gardner. Blair made 22 saves in the losing effort.
The Kingfish travel to Pensacola to take on the Ice Pilots for a 5:05 tilt at the Pensacola Civic Center Sunday afternoon. Catch all the action on 104.5 WZRB beginning with the pregame show starting at 4:50 p.m.
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