Sea Wolves Give Up Lead Late, But Secure Preseason Win in Overtime 7-6

The Seawolves visited the Blue Ridge Bobcats on October 12th to finish the preseason off.

The first period started slowly but picked up after Colby Audette scored a goal at 9:49 with an assist from Don Carter Jr.. The Seawolves found the back of the net a little while later when Blake Keller got a good shot in at 17:01 after a perfect set up by Noah Hippolyte-Smith. The Seawolves went back to back scoring on a double minor of power play time on penalties to the Bobcats Sotirios Karageorgos. The first goal came at 18:40 and was scored by Matt Stoia and the second came 45 seconds later from Kyle Russell.

During the second period the Seawolves got lucky early with another goal by #48 Audette at the 3:25 with an assist by Stoia. However, the scoring frenzy would stop at 5 as the Bobcats would race back. Karageorgos would score twice, first on a power play goal on a penalty to Audette at 5:15. Then Karageorgos scored again at 13:20. The Bobcats touched the net one last time to end the period as Max Sazanovets scored at 17:11. Scoring wasn’t the only action however as both Phillip Wong from the Seawolves and Quinn O’Reilly from the Bobcats would be ejected from the period at 13:45 for Fighting.

During the third period the Seawolves struck first with a goal at 2:09 by Noah Hippolyte-Smith. However, the Seawolves lead would soon crumble as the Bobcats battled back. Andrew Uturo scored at 5:24 followed by an unassisted goal at 6:06 by Ilnur Madiarov and finally a goal at 12:09 by #17 Joel Frazee.

The game went into overtime tied at 6-6 when the Seawolves scored were able to net the game winner as Keller went through the legs and over the Bobcats netminder to win the game 7-6.

Goaltending during tonight’s game was done by the trio of Gregory Hussey, Trevor Buckmeier, and Brandon Sartor. Hussey faced 21 shots against with 0 goals against. While both Buckmeier and Sartor faced 19 shots with 3 goals against each.

The Mississippi Seawolves open the season next week on Thursday October 17th with a matchup in Baton Rouge against the Zydeco. Puck drop is at 7:05 pm CDT.