{"id":1015,"date":"2016-01-04T11:51:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/americans-drop-t-birds-4-2-whl\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T00:45:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T07:45:30","slug":"americans-drop-t-birds-4-2-whl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/americans-drop-t-birds-4-2-whl\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans drop T-Birds, 4-2 | WHL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parker Bowles had two goals to lead his Tri-City Americans to a 4-2 Western Hockey Leage win over the Seattle Thunderbirds on Saturday night at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tri-City (16-20-2-0) built a 2-0 lead before Seattle (20-14-3-0) responded at 16:18 of the first period with a power-play goal. Nick Holowko sent the puck to Jarret Smith at the left point. Smith crossed the puck to Turner Ottenbrei, who took a slap shot with traffic in front of Tri-City goalie Evan Sarthou. Ottenbreit’s shot found the top left corner of the net for his third goal of the year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Seattle outshot Tri-City 16-6 in the first period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Bowles scored a power-play goal at 3:18 of the second period to give the Americans a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The T-Birds replaced Flodell with Taz Burman after the third Americans goal. Flodell had five saves on eight shots and his record is now 13-10-3-0 on the season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Josh Uhrich cut the Tri-City lead back to one goal at 6:56 of the second. Owen Seidel passed the puck from the T-Birds zone to Uhrich at center ice to spring him on a partial breakaway. Uhrich came down the left wing and snapped the puck over Sarthou’s glove for the goal. The goal was Uhrich’s first as a T-Bird.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tri-City outshot Seattle 7-5 in the second period. The T-Birds led 21-13 in shots after two periods.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Morgan Geekie scored at 15:02 of the third period to get the Americans fourth goal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Burman made 13 saves on 14 shots in 24 minutes of action. Sarthou had 27 saves 29 shots and his record is now 13-18-2-0.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Back home for two<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The T-Birds return to action against the Portland Winterhawks at 7:35 p.m. Friday at the ShoWare Center. They host the Everett Silvertips ay 7:05 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Single-game tickets for the 2015-16 season are available online at the T-Birds website<\/a> and at the ShoWare Center box office. The ShoWare Center Box Office is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday game days at 10 a.m. and Sunday game days at noon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Season tickets can be purchased by calling the T-Birds office at 253-239-7825.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

First period<\/strong> – 1, Tri-City, Bowles 23, 12:05. 1, Tri-City, Playfair 1 (McCue, Yaremko), 13:34. 3, Seattle, Ottenbreit 3 (Smith, Holowko), 16:18 (pp). Penalties – Bench, Sea (too many men-served by Osterman), 1: Wotherspoon, Tri (tripping), 7:38. Coghlan, Tri (tripping), 9:33. Stewart, Tri (cross checking), 14:26.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Second period <\/strong>– 4, Tri-City, Bowles 24 (McCue, Topping), 3:18 (pp). 5, Seattle, Uhrich 5 (Seidel), 6:56. Penalties – Uhrich, Sea (hooking), 2:42. Bowles, Tri (hooking), 10:54. Rayman, Tri (holding), 13:35. Kolesar, Sea (interference), 13:47. Sandhu, Tri (hooking), 15:23. Seidel, Sea (embellishment), 15:23.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Third period<\/strong> – 6, Tri-City, Geekie 4 (Olson, Wotherspoon), 15:02. Penalties – No penalties<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Shots on goal<\/strong> – Seattle 16-5-8 29, Tri-City 6-7-9 22. Goalies<\/strong> – Seattle, Flodell 8 shots-5 saves (13-10-3-0), Burman 14-13; Tri-City, Sarthou 29-27 (13-18-2-0). Power plays<\/strong> – Seattle 1-5; Tri-City 1-3. A – 4,572. Referees<\/strong> – Mark Pearce, Sean Raphael. Linesmen – Zach Brooks, Brendon Creyke.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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