Watertown, NY.- Game number two of the weekend between the visiting Mississippi Sea Wolves and the Watertown Wolves started much differently than Friday nights affair with Mississippi breaking their weekend scoring drought at just 1:44 of the opening period on a Phillip Wong goal, assisted by Mason Cirone and Yanni Liarakos to give the Sea Wolves the early lead.
At the 16:31 mark, Elijah Wilson did a little fancy footwork to split the Mississippi defense and drag the puck from right to left and lift a back hand over the blocker of Joe Sheppard knotting the game at one goal a piece. The final minutes of the period would find Sheppard and Wolves starter Travis Smith both making outstanding save to keep the game 1 -1 after 20 minutes. Watertown outshot Mississippi 14 to 10 in the frame.
Period number two would turn out to be a goaltender battle with Sheppard and Smith seeing their share of tough shots , but both were more than up to the challenge, entertaining the crowd with some spectacular saves. The Wolves broke the scoring barrier at 19:41 when Elijah Wilson lifted a shot from the left faceoff circle over the shoulder of Sheppard, to give Watertown their first lead of the game, and his second goal of the night.
 Watertown outshot Mississippi 20 to 11 in the second, and would take a 2-1 lead to the locker room.
Justin Laporte would even the score at 2 each just 4:17 into the third taking a feed from the right side and beating Smith to the left pipe, assisted by Phillip Wong and Yanni Liarakos. Just over a minute later at 5:45 the Wolves would regain the lead when Trevor Lord slid home a pass from Nick Papandrea on an even strength effort. Watertown added an insurance goal at 13:46 of the period when Chase DiBari took
a pass to the right side, beating the defense and going one on one with Sheppard, and was able to send one passed Sheppard to lengthen the lead to 4-2. Assisting on the play was Kolt Maguire and Charlie Pens.
The win gives the Wolves the weekend sweep of the Sea Wolves. Watertown outshot Mississippi 42 to 35 for the game. Mississippi was 1 for 6 on power play efforts, while Watertown went 1 for 7.
The Wolves will be back home on Friday the 13th to host the Binghamton Black Bears. Mississippi wil be home next weekend for a two game set, playing host to the Danbury Hat Tricks.
by Jeff Barrett
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