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Stork, DeAugustine Shine In Shootout; Phantoms Make it 2 straight

October 12, 2013 - United States Hockey League (USHL)
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - It may have taken 65 minutes and eight rounds of a shootout, but Colin DeAugustine back stopped the Youngstown Phantoms to their second straight win Saturday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The affiliate goaltender made 32 saves through regulation and overtime and Luke Stork scored in the eighth round of the skills competition to secure 4-3 victory over the Indiana Ice.

Stork also added a goal in regulation and Kiefer Sherwood notched a pair of assists as the Phantoms (3-4-1, 7 points) picked up their second straight win. Defenseman Fredric Larsson and forward Tyler Spezia also found the back of the net for Youngstown, which was won 10 of its last 11 games vs. Indiana.

"Colin played well the entire game and he made a couple huge saves when it was 3-3 late," head coach Anthony Noreen said. "Then in the shootout he goes in - and I don't know how many shooters there were - but to only let one in against a very good team, that was pretty impressive."

The Phantoms jumped out to a 3-0 lead before the six-minute mark of the second period, but the Ice (1-4-2, 4 points) were able bring it within one heading into the intermission. Then Tim Shoup evened it up just 40 seconds into the third period but, DeAugustine and Jason Pawloski, who came on to replace Indiana starter Samu Perhonen in the second, turned away all other takers until the shootout.

The Ice went first in the shootout, but it wasn't until the fourth round that Washington Capitals draft pick Brian Pinho beat DeAugustine to gain the edge. With the game on the line, Blake Christensen came over the boards for Youngstown and went in slowly before roofing a wrist shot on Pawloski to extend the shootout.

After three more fruitless rounds, Stork got the nod from Noreen, went in on goal and ripped a clean wrist shot over Pawloski to pick up the second point.

"Coach came over to me and Tyler [Spezia] and said, 'one of you guys is going next. Figure it out,'" Stork said. "We kind of talked it out and I was the lucky one to go.

"I saw a lot of guys going and fumbling the puck because the ice was bad so I thought, why not shoot? I saw the glove side open so I just let it go."

The Phantoms came flying out of the locker room to start the second and potted three quick goals to chase Perhonen. Larsson led it off just a 1:07 in when Sherwood fed him at the left point and he let fly with a wicked wrist shot. Perhonen got a piece of it with the glove but it deflected straight up, rang off the cross bar fell behind the goal line.

Stork stretched the lead to 2-0 at the 5:09 mark, scoring on a rebound just seconds after an Indiana penalty had expired. Then on the following shift, Spezia ended Perhonen's night when Ryan Schwalbe found him with a puck at the left circle and beat the big Finnish netminder with with a slap shot over the shoulder.

The Ice were able to break through on an odd-man rush just before the midway point of the period. Dennis Smirnov found defenseman Vince Pedrie crashing the net and Pedrie put a backhand past DeAugustine. The score snapped a streak of 89 minutes, 16 seconds without allowing a goal to open the Burgettstown, Pa. native's USHL career.

Scott Conway made it a one-goal game at the 11:19 mark and Shoup beat DeAugustine with a slapshot through the screen early in the third. But 18-year-old was a brick wall for the period and shined in the shootout.

"My only other [shootout] this year - and actually in my career - went three rounds and I let up all three and lost pretty quick," DeAugustine said. "This was a little bit better than last time."

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