Steelheads Fall To Ontario, 5-3
December 12, 2009 - ECHL (ECHL)
Idaho Steelheads News Release
Boise, ID- The Idaho Steelheads (19-5-2) gave up five unanswered goals tonight as the Ontario Reign (11-12-3) picked up a 5-3 win over the Steelheads at Qwest Arena. The Steelheads led 2-0 less than four minutes into the hockey game, but for the second time in the thee-game series between the teams, Ontario earned a comeback win.
The Steelheads opened the scoring this evening when John Swanson capitalized on a turnover, netting an unassisted goal for his seventh of the year at 1:57 of the opening frame. Less than two minutes later at 3:21, Adam Huxley took a pass from Matt McKnight behind the net, walked to the right faceoff circle, and fired a puck past Ontario netminder Curtis Darling to give Idaho a 2-0 lead through one period. Brandan Kushniruk also assisted on Huxley's third of the season.
The second period was all Ontario. Peter Lenes scored at 5:13 for the Reign to cut Idaho's lead in half, before Ontario mustered three power play goals before the closing of the second period. Tim Kraus, Mike Howe, and Greg Hogeboom fired pucks past Idaho's Rejean Beauchemin to give Ontario a 4-2 lead after 40 minutes.
Jon Francisco took a backdoor pass from Mike Howe at 6:36 of the third period and scored another power play goal for the Reign. At 18:35 of the third, Evan Barlow scored his own goal from the backdoor on Curtis Darling to cut Ontario's lead to 5-3, which is how the game would end. Matt McKnight and Marty Flichel assisted on Barlow's 11th of the year.
Rejean Beauchemin's record falls to 9-3-1; he stopped 22 pucks in the losing effort. Curtis Darling is now 8-8-2; he stopped 21 of 24 shots.
The Steelheads are back in action Wednesday night when they host the Utah Grizzlies at Qwest Arena; the puck drops at 7:10 PM MST.
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