ECHL Cincinnati Cyclones

South Carolina Gets Early Overtime Goal In 5-4 Win

Published on May 14, 2008 under ECHL (ECHL)
Cincinnati Cyclones News Release


NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina - South Carolina's Trent Campbell scored 2:03 into overtime to give the Stingrays a 5-4 overtime win over the Cincinnati Cyclones on Wednesday night. Jean-Michel Daoust and David Desharnais had two point nights in the loss for the Cyclones. Max Daigneault stopped 39 shots in taking the loss.

The loss leaves the Cyclones with a two games to one lead over South Carolina in the best of seven American Conference championship. The winner of this series will advance to the Kelly Cup Finals which will begin Memorial Day weekend.

The fourth game will be Friday night at South Carolina. Face off is at 7:05pm and the game can be heard on 96 Rock.

South Carolina opened the scoring 2:14 into the contest, as Pierre-Luc O'Brien netted his second goal of the postseason from Trent Campbell and Nate Kiser. The Cyclones knotted the score with a power play at 5:51. Defenseman Bryan Schmidt collected his third lamplighter of the playoffs from Jean-Michel Daoust and David Desharnais. Schmidt fired his shot from the left circle on a cross ice pass from Daoust that eluded the blocker on the Stingrays' Josh Johnson. South Carolina led the shots on goal battle at 12-6.

The teams again exchanged goals in the second period, as the Stingrays re-captured the lead at 4:42. Stephen Werner netted his sixth goal from Grant McNeill. The Cyclones got another power play goals from Olivier Latendresse at 11:26, his sixth of the Kelly Cup playoffs. Jason Deitsch and Matt Macdonald added the assists. Latendresse let loose with a delayed one-timer from the right faceoff circle and blew it past Johnson to lock the game up at 2-2 after 40 minutes. The shots agains favored South Carolina, 15-8.

In the third period, the teams each scored a pair of goals to force the overtime session. Thomas Beauregard scored 2:37 into the frame with a rush up the slot and fired home his ninth goal from Barret Ehgoetz. Forty-five seconds later, the Stingrays tied the game at 3-3, when Andrew Gordon scored his third. Cincinnati re-captured the lead at 17:18, when Jean-Michel Daoust played give-and-go with David Desharnais, for his second goal of the playoffs. Chad Starling had the other assist. Twenty-three seconds later-the game was tied again by Chris Chaput's fifth gaol. The shots favored South Carolina, 16-8.

The series is the first time that a professional sporting conference final has been played in Cincinnati since the Cyclones played in the 2002-03 ECHL's Kelly Cup playoffs. In that series, Cincinnati dropped the first three games of that session-before bouncing back to win three in a row. Atlantic City then won the seventh game and kept the Cyclones one win away from a championship series berth.

This was the third game of the best of seven American Conference Championship series. The winner of this series will meet the winner of the Las Vegas and Utah series for the Kelly Cup championship, where Las Vegas enjoys a 2-0 lead. The Cyclones (55-12-5) were the North Division, American Conference and Brabham Cup (best overall ECHL regular season record) champions in the regular season. Cincinnati swept Johnstown in four games and knocked off Reading in seven games to get here. South Carolina (47-22-3) has won all three of its best of five series in five games. First, the Stingrays knocked off Augusta, then Gwinnett and then Columbia.

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