CLEVELAND – The San Antonio Rampage (23-14-3-0) couldn’t rally from a late four-goal deficit on Thursday night, falling to the Lake Erie Monsters (17-16-3-3) 6-2 in front of 5,248 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. Six different Lake Erie skaters landed on the scoresheet despite Mark Mancari, Corban Knight and Connor Brickley all extending a point streak for the Rampage. 
Just 3:05 into the game, captain Greg Zanon put the Rampage on the board first, scoring his first goal of the season and first in a Rampage uniform. Lake Erie’s Joey Hishon notched his 10th of the season just 21 seconds later with a backhander that went in just under the crossbar. Knight put the Silver and Black back up by one, just 2:06 apart from the first Rampage tally, with a goal through the legs of Reto Berra. The Monsters tied the game at two with a goal from Andrew Agozzino at 6:47 to close out the opening 20 minutes.
San Antonio and Lake Erie remained locked at two through the second frame despite the Rampage nearly doubling their shots on net from the first period.
Mike Sgarbossa gave the Monsters their first lead of the game at 2:34 of the third period, scoring off a rebounded puck to make it a 3-2 game. The Monsters followed with two goals from Kenny Ryan and Maxim Noreau just five seconds apart to put Lake Erie up, 5-2. Dennis Everberg gave the Monsters their sixth and final goal of the night to give Lake Erie the 6-2 win in the first meeting of the season between the two teams.
Houser made 24 saves on 30 shots, and Berra stopped 29-of-31 shots. The Rampage were a perfect 4-for-4 on the penalty kill, and have only allowed two power-play goals in their last seven games.
You must be logged in to post a comment.