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Storm Pulls out Fifth Straight Win

November 9, 2002 - ECHL (ECHL)
Toledo Walleye News Release


(Toledo, Ohio) The Toledo Storm ran the team's league best record to 11-1-1=23 with the team's fifth straight victory, 3-2 over the Lexington Men O'War at the Toledo Sports Arena. Tonight's win keeps the Storm's unblemished home record, which now stands at 8-0-0, in tact.

For the second straight night, the opposition struck first when Lexington charged into the offensive end and Ben Storey dropped a perfect pass for Mark Smith, who fired a snap shot from the top of the right circle behind Storm goaltender, Doug Teskey, at 12:41 of the first. Later in the first, however, the Storm struck on both ends of a two-man advantage to take the lead at 2-1. At 16:44, with Lexington down two skaters, Grady Moore found defenseman, Trevor Read, sniping in the mid-portion of the right circle. Read's low hard snap shot slipped through Lexington goaltender, Mike Smith, for the first goal of Read's professional career. Forty-seven seconds later, with the Men O'War still a man short, Matt Ellis fired one from a similar position that appeared to be re-directed and beat Smith to give the Storm the lead. After a scoreless second, the Men O'War tied things in the third, when Mark Smith broke behind the Toledo defense, while the teams were skating four-on-four, and beat Teskey with another low hard shot. Lexington continued to pour on the pressure, but it was the Storm who would get the game deciding goal with just 4:47 remaining, when Nick Parillo chipped one up the wall to Dale Junkin, who broke in the offensive end with speed down the left wing side; and then threw a perfect saucer through the slot to the hard-charging Alexandre Jacques, who ripped off the one-timer over top of the sprawled out Mike Smith to bag the Storm's eleventh win in thirteen tries.

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