SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The San Antonio Rampage (14-12-7-0) lost their first game of 2016 to the San Diego Gulls (16-12-0-1) 3-1 in front of 6,286 at the AT&T Center on Friday night. Reid Petryk scored the lone goal for the Rampage, and the Silver and Black finished 1-for-3 on the power play. 
The Rampage and the Gulls were scoreless after the opening period, just the fourth time this season that San Antonio has played a scoreless first frame. The Gulls picked up the first goal of the game early in the second period, as Mike Sgarbossa’s shot from the slot trickled past Spencer Martin. San Diego struck again just over two minutes later when Sgarbossa hit Nick Ritchie on a give-and-go down the ice.
The Silver and Black made it a 2-1 game at 10:22 of the middle frame. Joey Hishon’s backhand pass from behind the goal line found the tape of Reid Petryk, who punched the puck past Anton Khudobin, sending the Rampage into the second intermission trailing by one.
Chris Mueller’s empty-net power-play goal with less than a minute left in regulation secured a 3-1 win for the Gulls, who remain in second place in the Pacific Division.
Notes
With the primary assist on Petryk’s second-period goal, Joey Hishon extended his point streak to five games and now has eight points (3G, 5A) in the Rampage’s last five contests.
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