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The Hershey Bears defeated the Bridgeport Sound Tigers tonight 2-1 in the final of three straight games between the two teams. Jeff Tambellini’s goal in the second period would not hold up as the Bears answered with two goals, seven minutes apart from each other, in the middle frame, handing the Sound Tigers their second straight loss.

Mike Morrison was between the pipes for the Sound Tigers tonight and in the first period, he and Hershey net-minder, Frederic Cassivi kept both teams scoreless. Morrison’s best save of the period came when Josef Boumedienne came out of the penalty box, took a pass and was in on an unmolested breakaway from the neutral zone. Boumedienne scored the same type of goal against the Sound Tigers on Saturday but Morrison would make a big kick save keeping the game scoreless.

In the second period, the Sound Tigers broke the 0-0 tie when Tambellini scored his sixth goal of the season, 6:40 into the period. Ben Walter was behind the net battling for the puck with Hershey defenseman, Tyler Sloan. Sloan was able to cut away from Walter with the puck but Walter dove to the ice and poke checked the puck off of Sloan’s stick to Tambellini in the slot. Tambellini pounced on the loose puck and roofed it over Cassivi’s glove for the 1-0 lead.

With his team on the power-play, Chris Bourque scored his seventh goal of the season to even the score for the Bears at 1-1. Scott Barney and Sami Lepisto assisted on the equalizer. The Bears would claim the lead at 17:27 when Joe Motzko scored his seventh goal of the season. While on a two-on-one with Motzko, Jason Morgan fed a pretty saucer pass over a Sound Tiger defenseman’s stick to Motzko, who quickly snapped the puck past Morrison for the 2-1 lead going into the third period.

Cassivi would frustrate the Sound Tigers in the final period of play, stopping all 15 shots the Sound Tigers would fire at him to win the game 2-1 for the Bears. Cassivi finished with 38 saves on 39 shots and Morrison had 26 saves on 28 Hershey shots. The Sound Tigers were 0-8 on the man-advantage but the lone power-play goal, that sent the Sound Tigers to 3-4 on the penalty-kill, gave the Bears the game-tying goal which would energize their bench to score the game-winner seven minutes later.

3 Stars:

1. Frederic Cassivi – With 38 saves, Cassivi was the blatant choice for the first star and the main reason the Bears were in tonight’s game
2. Joe Motzko – Scored the game-winning goal
3. Jeff Tambellini – Had the Sound Tigers lone goal and shot the puck from every where creating chance for the Sound Tigers throughout the game

Pitching In: Special thanks goes to the voice of the Sound Tigers, Phil Giubileo, who drove this afternoon to the game, delivering new sticks. Frans Nielsen and Mike Morrison both received new sticks this morning at the team’s office, so Giubileo drove the sticks to Hershey, making sure that Morrison and Nielsen had were prepared with their new lumber. Giubileo also bailed out Steve Regier as Regier forgot his two main sticks back in Bridgeport.

PIMs receive the Night Off: Sound Tigers’ team leaders in penalty minutes, Kip Brennan and Drew Fata had the night off. Head coach, Jack Capuano, dressed the three youngsters on defense, Andrew MacDonald, Jamie Fraser and Dustin Kohn. Gregg Johnson played in Brennan’s place.

Juggling: The lines were changed around a bit by the Sound Tigers coaching staff hoping to find chemistry between different players. Jeff Tambellini started the game on a line with Ben Walter and Shawn Bates while Steve Regier, whose six game scoring streak was snapped tonight, played with Frans Nielsen and Sean Bentivoglio.

Lineups:

SOUND TIGERS

Forwards
7 Jeff Tambellini – 9 Ben Walter – 17 Shawn Bates
39 Steve Regier – 51 Frans Nielsen – 10 Sean Bentivoglio
14 Blake Comeau – 21 Jeremy Colliton – 27 Darryl Bootland
55 Pascal Morency – 19 Gregg Johnson

Defensemen
4 Mark Wotton – 40 Jamie Fraser
50 Dustin Kohn – 6 Matthew Spiller
2 Andrew MacDonald – 15 Joe Rullier

Goalies
33 Mike Morrison (starter)
35 Joey MacDonald

BEARS

Forwards
26 Quintin Laing – 21 Jay Beagle – 25 Ben Clymer
17 Chris Bourque – 18 Kyle Wilson – 14 Jakub Klepis
12 Joe Motzko – 15 Jason Morgan – 22 Tom Maxwell
19 Grant Potulny – 36 Scott Barney

Defensemen
5 Tyler Sloan – 27 Patrick McNeill
37 Sami Lepisto – 33 Josef Boumedienne
28 Sasha Pokulok – 4 Jamie Hunt

Goalies
35 Frederic Cassivi (starter)
1 Daren Machesney

Photo Credit - Anthony Fiore