Americans Win 3-2

AMERICANS STORM BACK FOR A 3-2 WIN

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Published: Saturday, November 24, 2012

Prescott Valley, Arizona – Saturday night the Americans capped their three game road set against the Arizona Sundogs at Prescott Valley Convention and Events Center with their second victory in a row, earning five of a possible six points on the weekend. After dropping the first game in shootout Wednesday evening, the Americans came back with a vengeance in game two Friday night with a 7-1 drubbing of the Sundogs and completed the successful weekend run with a 3-2 victory to improve to 12-2-1.

Arizona opened the scoring in the first period when Jake Hauswirth popped in a rebound of Adam Smyth’s shot at the 3:30 mark. The first period saw a dominant performance from Arizona, outshooting the Americans 19-4 but the outstanding goaltending or Aaron Dell held the Sundogs to the lone early goal.

Early on in the second period the Sundogs extended their lead to 2-0 on a half ice shot by David Schlemko that caught Aaron Dell off guard. Arizona goaltender Mike Spillane earned the lone assist on the Schlemko marker at 1:06 of the middle frame. Allen cut into the Arizona lead five minutes later when Adam Pineault lit the lamp to complete a pretty display of tic-tac-toe passing from Jamie Schaafsma and Jarret Lukin, to bring the score to 2-1. Trevor Ludwig tied the game for the Americans with a big blast from the point from an Americans faceoff win, assists going to Mike Montgomery and Anthony Maiani at 18:59. Arizona continued to outshoot the Americans 10-8 for a two period total of 29-12.

It took until the third period for the Allen Americans to grab their first lead of the game but it was the only one they’d need, scoring their third unanswered goal on the power play. Jamie Schaafsma found the back of the net to give the Americans the go ahead goal on the power play, assisted by Tyler Ludwig and Adam Pineault at 8:51. Allen’s strong play in the third led to them outshooting the Sundogs 16-12 for a three period total of 42-28 in favor of Arizona.

The Allen Americans head back to Allen before heading out on the road for a Friday night game against the Tulsa Oilers, puck drop is set for 7:35PM Friday night.