April 8, 1998
SCORE BY PERIODS
Pee Dee 0 0 3 1--4
South Carolina 0 3 0 0--3
FIRST
PERIOD -- Scoring: None. Penalties: Royal, PD (hooking), 5:15.
Hynnes, SC (slashing), 10:20. Dallas, PD (high sticking), 13:24.
Hynnes, SC (slashing), 15:34. Wilson, PD (holding), 19:47.
SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, South Carolina-Tardif 1 (power play)
(Taylor; Hehr) 10:47. 2, South Carolina-Seitz 1 (power play)(Hehr;
Bednar) 17:13. 3, South Carolina-Dexter 2 (Tardif; Romfo) 19:30.
Penalties: Marietti, SC (roughing), 4:26. Bennett, PD (roughing), 4:26.
Bednar, SC (roughing), 7:31. Petz, PD (holding), 11:31. Hynnes, SC
(holding), 11:33. Mazur, PD (high sticking), 15:57.
THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 4, Pee Dee-Bennett 2 (Mazur; Alepin) 9:07.
5, Pee Dee-Aldoff 2 (unassisted) 10:25. 6, Pee Dee-Goudie 2 (Aldoff;
Mazur) 19:26. Penalties: None.
OVERTIME -- Scoring: 7, Pee Dee-Turek 2 (Petz) 4:33. Penalties: None.
SHOTS
ON GOAL
Pee Dee 5 7 9 3--26
South Carolina 10 19 10 3--42
Power
Play Conversions: Pee Dee – 0 of 4. South Carolina – 2 of 5.
Goalies: Pee Dee-Allan (42 shots-39 saves). South Carolina-Cadden
(26 shots-22 saves).
A: 8069.
Gregg
Hampton
Florence Morning News
NORTH
CHARLESTON -- Matt Turek had seen this situation before: Nothing around
him but open ice, the puck and South Carolina goaltender Cory Cadden.
"I
had this same thing earlier this year. I don't know what it is, but Cory has had
me all
year," said Turek, who was thwarted by Cadden on a breakaway with three
seconds left
in a game earlier this season.
However, on Wednesday the puck went in.
Turek's
breakaway goal past Cadden 4:33 into overtime gave the Pee Dee Pride a 4-3 win
over the Stingrays and a trip to Lafayette, LA, for the second round of the
Kelly Cup playoffs.
"It
was a great job by Ryan Petz to get the puck off the boards," Turek said.
"We have pretty
good communications on our line. I was going hard to the net, I yelled for the
puck and without
looking, Petzie threw it to me, . . . I had decided to go low glove side (on
Cadden) and
fortunately the puck went in."
Turek's
game-winning goal capped a miraculous comeback by the Pride that erased a
three-goal
deficit going into the third period. Prior to Turek's goal, Brian Goudie tied
the game 3-3 with a
slapshot from the right faceoff circle with 24 seconds left in regulation.
"That
was Pee Dee Pride hockey," said Pride head coach Jack Capuano. "I told
the guys after
the second period that we've got 20 minutes of hockey left, . . . We regrouped
and played a great
third period."
With
the series win, the Pride will play the Louisiana IceGators, the No. 1 seed in
the Southern
Conference, 7:30 p.m. (central time) Friday in the Cajundome in Lafayette.
The
teams will play Friday and Saturday, before coming back to Florence for Game 3
on April 16.
Game 4, if necessary, will be on April 17.
Tickets for Game 3 go on sale 10 a.m. today at the Florence City-County Civic Center box office.
After
a scoreless first period on Wednesday, South Carolina took complete control of
the game in
the second period, outshooting the Pride 19-5 in taking a 3-0 lead.
Marc
Tardif, off a rebound from a deflected shot, gave South Carolina a 1-0 lead at
the 10:31 mark
of the period on the power play.
The
Stingrays added another power play goal at the 17:13 mark when David Seitz got a
junk goal
in front of the net from a big pile-up of players.
Brad
Dexter then made it 3-0 with 30 seconds left in the period with a blistering
slapshot from the
left faceoff circle past Allan's left shoulder.
However, in the third period, the Pride came to life with goals 2:18 apart.
Rick
Bennett scored his second goal of the playoffs at the 8:07 mark on a wrap-around
shot that he
put between a sliding Cadden and the left post.
Rod
Aldoff then made the game interesting at 3-2 with a slapshot from the left
faceoff circle that
Cadden apparently never saw at the 10:25 mark.
Goudie
then took a pass from Rod Aldoff, who had got the puck from Jay Mazur when Peter
Geronazzo won the faceoff with South Carolina's Brett Marietti, and nailed the
puck from the right
faceoff circle past Cadden in a 6-on-5 advantage for the Pride to send the game
into overtime.
"That
goal should have never been allowed," said Stingrays head coach Rick Vaive,
whose club lost
for the first time in the first round in the team's five-year history. "The
(Pride player) in the crease
wasn't called. The officials blew it and we paid for it."