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January 7, 2005 - ECHL (ECHL)
South Carolina Stingrays News Release


Tonight's game is the fourth game of the season between the South Carolina Stingrays and the Florida Everblades.

The Rays come into the contest with a record of 12-14-3 in tenth place in the American Conference. The Blades began the week in first place in the conference with a record of 19-13-1. The Series: The Stingrays and the Everblades have faced each other three times this season with the road team winning every contest.

December 3, 2004 Florida 3 @ South Carolina 1

Matt Hendricks nets the game winner for the Everblades and Craig Kowalski made 34 saves for the win. Florida wins game three of a six game winning streak.

December 10, 2004 South Carolina 2 @ Florida 1

The Stingrays snap the Everblades six game winning streak as Rich Peverley scores the game winner and Kirk Daubenspeck makes 34 saves.

December 11, 2004 South Carolina 3 @ Florida 0

Kirk Daubenspeck earns the shut out making 45 saves to help the Stingrays sweep the weekend set at Germain arena. Carlyle Lewis scores the winner for the Stingrays.

South Carolina

The Stingrays finished last week 0-2-1 and are now winless in their last five games, 0-3-2. At home, the Stingrays have a record of 7-4-1, but they are 5-10-2 away from the North Charleston Coliseum. The Rays special teams continue to improved including the impressive penalty kill, which ranks first in the league at 90.2% with six short handed goals. The Rays power play is in the top ten in the league now, ranked ninth at 16.5%. Joe Tenute had a big week, last week, for the Stingrays despite the team's three losses, scoring three goals and adding three assists in three games. Tenute was the only goal scorer for the Stingrays in two consecutive games. The rookie now has 29 points on 14 goals and 15 assists on the season and ranks fourth on the rookie scoring list. Matt Reid continues to lead the Stingrays in scoring on the season with 30 points on 15 goals and 15 assists.

Florida:

Since being swept by the Stingrays in early December, the Everblades have lost just two games in regulation (7-2-1). The Blades began the week on a three game winning streak. After a loss in Columbia on Tuesday night, the Blades scored four third period goals last night in Pee Dee to win 4-3. The Everblades have an impressive road record of 9-6 on the season. Matt Hendricks leads the Everblades with 33 points.

Rays Fans Help Charity

The South Carolina Stingrays and the Boys and Girls Club of the Trident Area have teamed up to raise money on Saturday night, when the Stingrays host the Pee Dee Pride. The first 3,000 fans making any sort of donation to the Boys and Girls Club will receive a collector's addition bottle of "Fitzsimmons Springs Drinking Water". The water bottles are symbolic of the Coach's six game suspension by the ECHL and Saturdays is Fitzsimmons's first game back.

Stingray's fans have already begun to pitch in for the cause. Fans at "Monday Night Hockey" at Bobby Hartin's have already pitched in over $500 in three weeks since Fitzsimmons' suspension.

Next Up:

South Carolina hosts Pee Dee tomorrow night

Florida will travel to Charlotte tomorrow night to face the Checkers.

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