Mariners and Slammers knotted at 1

The Woodstock Slammers made sure there would be at least one more game at Mariners Centre this year.

The Slammers downed the Yarmouth Mariners 3-1 last night to draw even at one game apiece in their best-of-seven Kent Cup series. Neither team resembled the team they were the night before.

For the Slammers that was a good thing. They outworked Yarmouth in the corners, won the battles for loose pucks and generally played a more controlled and disciplined game than they did the night before.

For Yarmouth, anything that could go wrong did. The Mariners came out of the gates flat and found themselves playing catch up all night. While there was no shortage of shots on net, not enough of them made it through traffic and more than they'd like to count missed wide-open sides. It also didn't help that the team was plagued with penalties all night.

Mitch Price led the Slammers with one goal and one assist.

Mark MacEachern (power play) opened the scoring at 15:39 to give Woodstock a 1-0 lead. Justin Saulnier (power play) scored 43 seconds later at 16:22 to tie the score 1-1 after the first period. Dan Dooley (power play, game winner) scored 38 seconds into the middle frame to retake the lead for the Slammers at 2-1. Price (power play) added an insurance goal at 5:23 to increase the lead to 3-1 after the second period. There was no scoring in the third period.

Woodstock went 3 for 4 on the power play while Yarmouth went 1 for 9.

The Slammers Ben MacFarlane stopped 24 of 25 shots for the win while Yarmouth's Dallas Ungurian stopped 16 of 19 shots in the loss.

Game three of the series goes Friday night at the Carleton Civic Center in Woodstock at 7:30pm.