Railers score season high six goals in 6-2 road win in Allen

Allen, TX – The Worcester Railers HC (22-20-5-3, 50pts) continued their season long seven-game road trip with a 6-2 victory over the host Allen Americans (16-31-4-2, 38pts) in front of 3,991 fans at the Allen Event Center on Friday evening.Game three of the Railers road trip continues with an 8pm (ET) start in Tulsa, Oklahoma vs. the Oilers.

Bo Brauer, Ivan Kosorenkov, Mike Cornell (GWG), Josh Holmstrom (1-1-2), and Barry Almeida (1-1-2) all scored for Worcester while Evan Buitenhuis made 32 saves in net and Yanick Turcotte picked up a pair of fighting major penalties and an assist. Tyler Barnes extended his point streak to a franchise record 11 games (10-5-15) with an assist as Worcester won for just the second time this season when trailing after 40 minutes of play (2-14-2).  Worcester scored a franchise record five goals in the third period and scored a season high six goals overall as Allen netminder Kyle Hayton made 35 saves in the loss in net.

Worcester had just under seven minutes of power play time in the first period but trailed 1-0 through 20 minutes of play.  Braylon Shmyr (14^th) snagged a rebound score at 16:58 for the only strike of the opening frame.  Yanick Turcotte (8^th FM) dropped the mitts against Emerson Clark in a physical period that saw Worcester outshot the Americans 19-13 through 20 minutes.

After Yanick Turcotte (9^th FM) dropped the mitts with Jacob Doty and Mike Cornell (7^thFM) dropped Braylon Shmyr with a series of uppercuts in the first 12 minutes of the second period, the Railers finally broke through as Bo Brauer (3^rd) struck on the power play with a snap shot from the left circle at 15:53 to tie the score at 1-1.  But the Americans went back ahead less than a minute later as Dante Salituro (11^th) ripped home a bouncing loose puck in the slot at 16:51 to give Allen a 2-1 lead through 40 minutes.

The Railers would clobber the Americans in the third period with five goals to pull away with the 6-2 road victory.  Ivan Kosorenkov (8^th) tied the score at 3:45 after a give and go with Yanick Turcotte and Mike Cornell (4^th) scored an unassisted tally with a 50-foot wrist shot at 5:23 for the eventual game winner. Josh Holmstrom (12th) made it 4-2 at 9:38 and Ryan Hitchcock (10^th) added another at 15:18 which extended Tyler Barnes point streak to 11 games with an assist.  Barry Almeida (14^th) added the 5^th goal of the period – a franchise record at 16:56 after a faceoff win by Ryan Hitchcock to give Worcester the 6-2 road win.

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