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The push for the fourth and final playoff spot is on as Jeff Tambellini and Tim Jackman returned to the lineup tonight and each had a goal, as the Sound Tigers defeated the Hershey Bears 4-2. The win, the Sound Tigers’ third in a row, pulls them within three points of the Bears who hold that last playoff spot in the East Division and one behind the Binghamton Senators who were beaten tonight by the Philadelphia Phantoms.

Hershey grabbed the 1-0 lead when Jason Morgan scored his 15th goal of the season. The play was set up at the right point by Bears’ defenseman Josef Boumedienne who fed a cross-ice pass to Morgan for the one-timer past Sound Tigers’ starting goalie Joey MacDonald. Danny Syvret had the second assist on the opening tally coming nine minutes into the opening frame.

In the second period, Tambellini returned to his old habits with the Sound Tigers, scoring his 30th goal of the season. The puck wound up at the right post where Tambellini was waiting and slammed it past Hershey starting net-minder, Frederic Cassivi, tying the score at 1-1. Jackman and Ben Walter had the assists on Tambellini’s seventh goal in as many games against the Bears this season. Tyler Mosienko would bury his second goal of the season just under two minutes later. Colton Fretter fed a pass to the low right circle where newly signed Peter MacArthur fired a quick shot on goal. Mosienko was breaking to the net at the far left post and snapped the rebound past the blocker of Cassivi to take the 2-1 lead.

Alexandre Giroux would make the game interesting in the third period, just over two minutes in when he uncorked a big slap-shot from the point that deflected off a body in front and over the shoulder of MacDonald, tying the score at two for the Bears. Boumedienne had the lone assist on Giroux’s 29th marker of the season.

Jackman would score the game-winner nearly six minutes later on the power-play. Steve Regier saucered a pass over both a Hershey defenseman and Cassivi’s stick and the puck laid down perfectly for Jackman at the left post where he fired it into the net to give the Sound Tigers the 3-2 lead. Matthew Spiller would seal the victory with his first tally of the season, coming while Hershey had their net empty in favor of the extra attacker. The goal came unassisted and while the Sound Tigers were shorthanded.

MacDonald finished the game with 29 saves on 31 shots while Cassivi stopped 25 of the 28 shots he faced. The Sound Tigers were 1-for-7 on the man-advantage and 4-for-4 on the penalty-kill.

The Sound Tigers will continue their three-game home-stand tomorrow night when the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins come to Bridgeport for a 7 p.m. face-off. On Sunday the Sound Tigers will close out the weekend against their inter-state rivals, the Hartford Wolf Pack.

3 Stars

1. Tim Jackman – Scored the game-winning goal and had an assist
2. Ben Walter – 2 assists
3. Jeff Tambellini – Opened the scoring for the Sound Tigers
Honorable Mention: Tyler Mosienko – Scored his second AHL goal in just his third game

Game Operations: In the first intermission, three fans from Hershey joined three Sound Tiger fans on the ice for a game of Tug-O-War. The effort was there, but the outcome was not as the Bears’ fans took home two victories.

Scratchy: Tonight the Sound Tigers scratched more players then they have all season, nine. With the return of four players from the Islanders, that left Tyler Haskins, Jesse Joensuu, Andrew MacDonald, Justin Bourne, Jason Pitton, Scott Ford, Jean Desrochers, Kip Brennan and Pascal Morency out of the lineup.

Up Downs: The four players that returned to the Sound Tigers tonight from the Islanders all pitched in to help earn the victory. Jeff Tambellini had a goal, Tim Jackman scored the game-winning goal and had an assist, Steve Regier blocked numerous shots and was able to get under the skin of the Hershey players and Matthew Spiller scored his first goal of the season.

Lineups

SOUND TIGERS

Forwards
16 Tim Jackman – 27 Matt Keith – 39 Steve Regier
10 Sean Bentivoglio – 9 Ben Walter – 7 Jeff Tambellini
22 Colton Fretter – 23 Trevor Smith – 24 Peter MacArthur
91 Keith Johnson – 25 Tyler Mosienko

Defensemen
4 Mark Wotton – 6 Matthew Spiller
15 Andy Sertich – 50 Dustin Kohn
44 Drew Fata – 40 Jamie Fraser

Goalies
35 Joey MacDonald (starter)
33 Mike Morrison

BEARS

Forwards
23 Andrew Joudrey – 21 Jay Beagle – 14 Shawn Collymore
18 Kyle Wilson – 17Chris Bourque – 10 Andrew Gordon
15 Jason Morgan – 12 Alexandre Giroux – 19 Mathieu Beaudoin
24 Louis Robitaille – 26 Ryan Garlock

Defensemen
4 Jamie Hunt – 27 Patrick McNeill
33 Josef Boumedienne – 37 Sami Lepisto
2 Danny Syvert – 6 Jonathan Paiemont

Goalies
35 Frederic Cassivi (starter)
1 Darren Machesney