Toledo, OH – The Iowa Heartlanders scored twice in the third to make it a one-goal game, but the Toledo Walleye scored an empty-net goal and bested the Heartlanders, 4-2, Sunday at Huntington Center. The Walleye were given two five-on-three power plays in a 30-second span in the third period and scored on them both to make it 3-0. 
Yuki Miura scored a toe-drag goal with 7:55 left in the third on Iowa’s 27th shot to finally break Jan Bednar (win, 31 saves). Next, a minute later on Iowa’s next shot, Gavin Hain spun in his seventh of the season on a shot from the left circle on the power play, making it 3-2 Toledo.
Brandon Hawkins scored his second of the night into an empty net to put the game away.
Carson Bantle scored with 1:31 left in the second to open the scoring. Bantle waited for a cross-slot pass from Dalton Messina and snuck it in.
Kyle McClellan took the loss despite 24 saves.
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