PORT HURON, MI – Add Roger Tagoona’s name to the list of late game heroes for the Prowlers this season. Tagoona’s hustle paid off in the final seconds of the third period; beating out an intentional icing from Paul Falco that ricocheted off the boards right to Tagoona’s stick and finding twine with less than a second left to go in the third period for the game winner.
Roger’s game winning goal puts Port Huron one point away from 2nd place in the F.H.L. In the first period Danville would score on their first shot attempt of the game from Gehrett Sargis from Dustin Henning 1:48 into the contest.
After more than 15 minutes with no goals, Port Huron would take a one goal lead into the locker room on back to back goals 1:39 apart. Chris Leveille tied the game with an assist from Paul Falco, and Matt Beer got the go ahead goal with two and a half minutes left to go in the first. Jared Hicks and Scott Witmyer assisted on Beer’s goal.
In the second period, it was newly acquired Dasher Brian Soskin that would give his team a shot of adrenaline. Soskin would score two consecutive goals (one shorthanded)to put the Dashers back up top 3-2. A.J. Tesoriero assisted on Soskin’s short-hander. Justin Levac recorded an apple on Soskin’s go-ahead goal with eight minutes left to play in the second period.
It would be short lived, as Roger Tagoona tied the game on the power play from Justin Alonzo and Jared Hicks with six minutes left to go in the second period. That’s how the second period would end; deadlocked at 3.
In the third period it was the Prowlers who struck first. Scott Witmyer got the go ahead goal almost eight minutes into the third from Chris Leveille and Len Pelletier. But the Dashers had too much time left to respond. Justin Levac fired a wrister right by the blocker of Di’Cristofaro with four minutes and change left to go in the third period.
The forgone conclusion of OT was snatched away at the last possible second. Paul Falco intentionally iced the puck with 3.5 seconds left to go; the puck magically finding its way to the stick of Roger Tagoona. Tagoona blasted the rebound off the boards, just underneath the glove hand of Dalton McGrath for the game winner with no time left on the clock.
Mcgrath had 28 saves on 33 shots; DiCristofaro tallied another win with 28 saves on 32 shots. DiCristofaro’s win gives him 23 on the season which puts him in 2nd in the F.H.L. behind Matt Anthony.
Game recap by D.J. Palm
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