BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Behind two goals and the overtime winner from Jakob Pelletier and multi-point efforts from Connor Mackey, Byron Froese and Matthew Phillips, the Stockton Heat (8-0-1-0) won a hard-fought, 5-4 overtime decision against the Bakersfield Condors (4-4-1-1) Wednesday night at Mechanics Bank Arena.
With the win, the Heat have matched the team’s all-time long win streak of eight games, previously set last season.
The Heat pounced early, with Pelletier and Froese each finding the back of the net on Stockton’s first two shots of the contest for an early 2-0 edge. Bakersfield was able to trim the away team’s lead in half four minutes later, Brad Malone’s first of four points on the night, to produce a 2-1 score through 20 minutes.
Twice in the second period the Heat pushed the lead to two goals, markers from Phillips and Eetu Tuulola, but twice the Condors responded with scores from James Hamblin and Michael Kesselring to keep Bakersfield within striking distance.
The home team got the lone lamp-lighter of the third, Malone’s second of the night to push the game to overtime, a deadlock that lasted until the 3:41 mark of the extra frame when Dustin Wolf’s stop on one end quickly turned into a rush on the other for Stockton, ending in Pelletier putting the puck in the net for the win.
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