Wild Tops Kenai River In Overtime
March 2, 2014 - North American Hockey League (NAHL)
Wenatchee Wild News Release
Wenatchee, WA. - The Wenatchee Wild played the Kenai River Brown Bears in a Sunday afternoon matinee at the Town Toyota Center and pulled out a 4-3 overtime win in front of 2,579 fans.
Kenai River scored first, as Conor Deal lit the lamp, off a helper from Frankie Spellman at 3:52, putting the Brown Bears on top 1-0. Wenatchee tied it up on a power play goal, as Alex Rauter (Morristown, New Jersey) deflected a point shot into the net. River Rymsha (Huntington Woods, Michigan) and Jakob Ahlgren (Fergus Falls, Minnesota) assisted at 12:02, evening the score at 1-1. The Wild grabbed the lead off a shorthanded 2-on-1, as David Powlowski (Rochester, New York) scored off a crossing pass from Parker Tuomie (Biemerhaven, Germany) at 18:21, putting Wenatchee on top 2-1.
In the second period, it took just 28 seconds for Judd Loewenstein to tie it up for Kenai River, assisted by Matt Rudin and Tommy Dierl, making it a 2-2 game.
Nicholas Rivera (Pacific Palisades, California) snapped one home from the right wing circle for the Wild. Rymsha and Omar Mullan (Dearborn, Michigan) drew the assists at 1:44 of the third period, giving Wenatchee a 3-2 lead. The Brown Bears tied it on a Sebastian Fuchs goal. The assist went to Alec Butcher at 16:36, squaring the game at 3-3.
The two teams went back-and-forth in the extra session, but late in the overtime, Tuomie collected a short rebound straight out in front and powered it home for the winning goal. The assists went to Brendan Harris (Las Vegas, Nevada) and Matthew Nuttle (Marilla, New York) at 3:22 and the Wild skated off with their seventh straight win over Kenai River, by a final of 4-3. The win puts Wenatchee 4 points up on Coulee Region in the battle for third place in the Midwest Division and the advantage over the Brown Bears is now 7 points. "Proud of the effort all weekend" said Wenatchee Wild Head Coach Bliss Littler. "Not much gas left in the tank for either team, pretty gritty effort for us. We're 10-3-2 our last 15, so we're starting to play good hockey at the right time of the year. We had good goaltending all weekend, good special teams, we were able to play 4 lines and 6 d, pretty good team effort. Going to enjoy this tonight, start looking forward to Fairbanks, seeing if we've made progress, looking forward to the challenge with Fairbanks coming in on the weekend."
Wenatchee outshot Kenai River 39-28. Austin Priebe (Wausau, Wisconsin) made 25 saves for the Wild; Kris Oldham had 35 saves for the Brown Bears. The Wild went 1-for-4 on the power play and 4-of-4 on the penalty kill.
Wenatchee is now 28-20-6; Kenai River is now 24-21-7.
Wenatchee hosts the Midwest Division leading Fairbanks Ice Dogs on Friday and Saturday, March 7th and 8th, with puck drop at 7:05pm PST both nights. Individual and group game tickets for all home games are on sale now. Call 509.888.PUCK (7825).
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