The Tacoma Stars (4-2) fell on the road to the San Diego Sockers (5-2) by a final score of 5-3 on Friday night at the Valley View Casino Center.<\/p>\n
The Stars secured goals from three separate players in the match, while goalkeeper Danny Waltman contributed 15 saves on 20 shots across 60 minutes in goal.<\/p>\n
San Diego forward Kraig Chiles earned a brace within the first 11 minutes of the match, scoring twice to put the Sockers out in front early, 2-0. Midfielder Raymundo Reza added one more tally to the Sockers lead with a goal in the closing minutes of the first quarter, extending San Diego’s advantage to 3-1.<\/p>\n
A surge in pressure from the Stars offense throughout the second quarter paid off late in the period when midfielder Jamael Cox sent a ball past Chris Toth for Tacoma’s first goal of the night, cutting the Sockers lead to 3-1 going into halftime.<\/p>\n
Tacoma opened the second half with back-to-back goals, a power play score from forward Alex Megson and an unassisted goal from midfielder Derek Johnson, to tie the match at 3-3.<\/p>\n
However, Chiles would score twice more – once in the third period and again in the fourth – to give himself a hat trick and then some while earning the Sockers a 5-3 Pacific Division victory.<\/p>\n
The win vaulted the Sockers back into first place in the Pacific Division, one game ahead of the Stars.<\/p>\n
Tacoma wraps up its four-game road trip with a visit to Atletico Baja on Sunday, Dec. 4 with a first kick scheduled for 5:05 p.m.<\/p>\n
Single game tickets, season ticket packages, group outings, family packs, and suite offerings for the Tacoma Stars 2016-17 season are available now. To purchase, call 1-844-STARS-TIME or visit the Stars online at www.tacomastars.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tacoma gets goals from Cox, Megson, Johnson <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":25129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25128"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}