The Tacoma Stars (3-0) netted a season-high nine goals on the way to a 9-5 victory over the Sacramento Surge (0-4) on Saturday night at Estadio Azteca.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Stars striker Derek Johnson sent in three goals for his first hat trick of the season while adding an assist to round out his night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Forward Dan Antoniuk and midfielder Jamael Cox combined for four goals, and midfielder Joey Gjertsen contributed an assist to power Tacoma to victory.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper Danny Waltman played start to finish for the Stars, recording 14 saves on 19 shots.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Tacoma went into halftime with a 4-1 lead over the Surge behind a pair of goals from Antoniuk and solo scores by Adam West and Johnson. A goal six minutes into the second quarter by Norman Levesque accounted for Sacramento’s first half offensive effort.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Stars closed out the victory with a pair of goals in the third quarter and three more in the fourth. Johnson completed his hat trick with a goal in the final minute of the match, putting the game out of reach for Sacramento. The Surge put a pair of goals on the board in both the third and fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Stars will wrap up their three-game road trip with a match against Sacramento tomorrow, Sunday, Nov. 15 at 5:05 p.m. The game will be broadcast live on www.golivesportscast.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Single game tickets, season ticket packages, group outings, and suite offerings for the Tacoma Stars 2015-16 season are available now. To purchase, call 1-844-STARS-TIME or visit the Stars online at www.tacomastars.com<\/a>. The most up-to-date news and notes about the Stars can be found by following the Stars on Twitter (@TacomaStarsSC<\/a>) or liking the team on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Tacoma Stars (3-0) netted a season-high nine goals on the way to a 9-5 victory over the Sacramento Surge (0-4) on Saturday night at Estadio Azteca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":8043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8042","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\/8042"}],"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=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}