Americans win streak comes to an end
The Tri-City Americans saw their three-game win streak come to an end Friday with a 4-2 loss to the Kelowna Rockets at Prospera Place.
Tied at 2-2 after 40 minutes, the Rockets got goals from Rourke Chartier and Tyson Baillie in the third period to seal the win for Kelowna, which leads the Western Conference with a 32-11-3-0 record.
Tri-City (20-24-2-0, 42 points), which will play at Portland on Sunday, got a first-period goal from Parker Bowles — his team-leading 27th — to give the Americans a 1-0 lead.
After Kelowna scored to make it 1-1 early in the second, rookie Michael Rasmussen potted his 10th goal of the season to give the Americans a 2-1 lead at 7:45.
Rodney Southam tied the score at 2-2 late in the second to give the Rockets momentum.
Evan Sarthou had 28 saves in taking the loss, while Michael Herringer had 30 saves for the Rockets.
ROCKETS 4, AMERICANS 2
Tri-City | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 2 |
Kelowna | 0 | 2 | 2 | — | 4 |
First — 1, TC, Bowles 27, 13:43. Penalties — Gatenby, Kel (high-sticking), 5:20; Linaker, Kel (tripping), 9:33; Stadel, Kel (tripping), 20:00.
Second — 2, Kel, Thurkauf 10 (Merkley, Chartier), 2:29 (pp). 3, TC, Rasmussen 10 (Carlo, Wotherspoon), 7:45. 4, Kel, Southam 6 (Soustal, Linaker), 15:24. Penalties — Sandhu, TC (hooking), 2:15.
Third — 5, Kel, Chartier 9 (Merkley), 4:40. 6, Kel, Baillie 27, 11:35. Penalties — Playfair, TC (slashing), 5:44; Topping, TC (roughing), 18:29; Kirkland, Kel (roughing), 18:29.
Shots — TC 8-8-16 — 32. Kel 11-14-7 — 32. Power plays — TC 0-3. Kel 1-2. Goalies — TC, Sarthou 17-21-2-0 (32 shots-28 saves). Kel, Herringer 12-5-1-0 (32-30). Referees — Brett Iverson and Fraser Lawrence. A — 5,038.
This story was originally published January 22, 2016 at 10:41 PM with the headline "Americans win streak comes to an end."