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| (**Photo Credits go to Samie Nichols**) |
In
front of a riled up Springfield crowd, in a matchup in which both teams had
previously been on a roll, the Jr. Blues won for the fourth time in their last
five games. Meanwhile, for the visiting team, with the close loss, Janesville
ended their overall win streak at three games.
The
Jr. Blues started the game out scorching as they scored two goals in just the
first five minutes following the opening faceoff to take a quick 2-to-0 lead.
Chasteen scored the first goal just 3:24 into the game and was followed by
teammate Ryan Atkinson less than one minute later.
Jason
Ford, the Jets’ leading scorer so far this season, got Janesville on the
scoreboard a few minutes later and made the score 2-1. Not too long following
that goal, James McGing added another goal—giving the Jr. Blues a 3-to-1 lead
with still over ten minutes left in the opening period.
The
scoring in the first wasn’t over with though. On a night in which both teams
went 0-for-5 and combined for 0-for-10 overall on the powerplay, with less than
four minutes remaining, Alex Shuchuk scored an unassisted, shorthanded goal and
made it 3-to-2 Springfield following the first twenty-minutes of hockey.
The
second-period was a change of pace though, as only one goal was scored in the
period—coming off of the stick of Janesville’s Jordan Himley. Himley scored the
periods only goal at 13:15 on an assist from Mike Sullivan, evening up the
score at three after two periods with just twenty minutes remaining in the
contest.
Entering
the third period, it was hard to tell exactly what team had the momentum on
their side—but starting goaltender Matt Leon shut down the Jets’ offensive
attack—saving all ten shots the Jets had fired at him. As neither team had
scored throughout the first fifteen and a half minutes of the final period, Chasteen
scored an unassisted goal to make it 4-to-3, which proved to be the game winner
as McGing followed it and sealed the deal by scoring an empty netter with
fourteen seconds remaining, making the final score 5-to-3—and giving both
Chasteen and McGing two goals apiece for the game.
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| (**Photo Credits go to Samie Nichols**) |
Springfield
out shot the Jets 42-to-38 on the night, as Jr. Blues goalie Matt Leon saved
35-of-38 Janesville shots on the night, including twenty-two of their last
twenty-three, helping him earn his fourth win in nine starts this season—and his
third consecutive overall.
Janesville
used their tandem of goalies between the pipes tonight though, as Brock Kautz
started the game before Austin Priebe finished it off. In over fifty-five
minutes, Kautz converted successfully stopped 35-of-37 Springfield shots—while Priebe
allowed two goals as well, but on just four shots.
Following
tonight’s game, with the win for Springfield, they improved their overall
record to 5-8-2 (12 points) on the season while the visiting Jets fell to 7-6-2
(16 points) overall. Both teams will be back at it tomorrow night inside the
Nelson Center for the second and final matchup of the weekend as the puck will
drop at 7:05 pm.
Official Scoring Summary
First
Period-(SPR) Nate Chasteen (Mike Fazio, Alex Baskakov) 3:24; (SPR) Ryan
Atkinson (James McGing, Parker Johnson) 4:14; (JAN) Jason Ford (Alex Shuckuk)
6:43; (SPR) James McGing (Parker Johnson, Ryan Atkinson) 9:36; (JAN) Alex
Shuchuk (shorthanded/unassisted) 16:51
Second
Period-(JAN) Jordan Himley (Mike Sullivan) 13:15
Third
Period-(SPR) Nate Chasteen (Mike Fazio) 15:30; (SPR) James McGing (Simon
Koscilski) (empty-net) 19:46
Three Stars of the Game (Official from
the Stadium)
1.
Nate Chasteen (Springfield)
2.
James McGing (Springfield)
3.
Ryan Atkinson (Springfield)
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