MUDBUGS BEAT ICERAYS IN OVERTIME SATURDAY

Jan 4, 2020

SHREVEPORT, La. – The Corpus Christi IceRays tied Saturday’s game three times but Dawson Sciarrino scored 2:52 into overtime as the Shreveport Mudbugs picked up a 4-3 win inside George’s Pond at Hirsch Memorial Coliseum.

Evan Carroll, Corey Clifton and Ben Biester scored for the IceRays (13-17-3-3, 32 pts.), who recorded their first point against Shreveport (23-11-0-0, 46 pts.) in nine games this season.

Shreveport’s Warren Natyshak opened the scoring at 14:48 of the first period, but Corpus Christi’s Carroll scored on a slap shot 2:10 later to send the game into a tie at the first intermission.

Sam Miller regained the lead for the Mudbugs 37 seconds into the second period, firing a shot from the left point, but once again the IceRays had the answer, as Clifton notched his first goal as an IceRay at 9:18.

The back-and-forth trend continued in the third period. Mudbugs center Matt Weber scored at 8:43, but Biester responded less than a minute later at 9:32.

Sciarrino’s game-winning goal came on a breakaway as he scored a forehand goal past netminder Jeremy Forman’s glove.

The Mudbugs outshot the IceRays by a 25-23 margin. The two teams combined to go 11-for-11 on the penalty kill.

The game was the IceRays’ fifth of an eight-in-a-row stretch against the Mudbugs. The two teams wrap up their season series with a 3-in-3 weekend Jan. 10-12 at American Bank Center in Corpus Christi. The IceRays’ next home game, Friday, Jan. 10 at 7:05 p.m., is Pro Wrestling Night presented by Bud Light, featuring appearances by wrestling superstars Luke Harper and Sammy Guevara.

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