JACKSONVILLE, F.L. – After permitting an early purpose on the street, the South Carolina Stingrays scored 4 unanswered objectives from 4 completely different purpose scorers to skate by the Jacksonville Icemen, 4-1, on Wednesday night on the VyStar Veterans Memorial Enviornment.
Jacksonville (9-9-0-0) jumped out in entrance shortly at house. Christopher Brown transformed the primary shot of the sport simply 3:11 into the sport giving the Icemen a 1-0 lead. Following the opening purpose, South Carolina (12-7-0-0) responded. With slightly below six minutes gone, Reilly Webb let a shot go that deflected off an Icemen’s skate and located the again of the online, tying the sport at one.
Neither facet might break the tie in the remainder of the first interval, however within the 2nd interval, the Stingrays took over. Simply over 5 minutes into the center body, Jalen Luypen tapped house a centering go from Simon Pinard, placing the Stingrays forward for good, 2-1. South Carolina discovered an insurance coverage purpose from Josh Wilkins with 9:05 left within the interval off an help from Kyler Kupka constructing the result in two, 3-1.
The Stingrays took the two-goal result in the third interval, however Jacksonville got here out firing in search of a solution early. Netminder Mitch Gibson was up for the duty. The backstop made a number of saves throughout the primary minute, preserving the 3-1 lead intact.
South Carolina drew a penalty simply over eight minutes into the interval and made the Icemen pay. Zac Funk punched house his first purpose of the season on the facility play, giving the Stingrays a 4-1 lead with 10:38 left in regulation. Jacksonville had no reply for South Carolina down the stretch as Gibson saved the ultimate 21 photographs he noticed on the night to beat the Icemen, 4-1.
Within the victory, Funk, Kupka and Wilkins all had multi-point outings whereas Gibson earned his seventh win of the season, together with his second over Jacksonville.
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