Broomall, Pa.--C. J. Yoder scored two of his three goals in a six-goal second quarter as the Marple Gladiators downed the Hartford Thunder 9-3 in the first game of the MLRH Championship Series in front of a large crowd at Marple Sports Arena.
The teams battled through a slow-paced first quarter as the Thunder outshot the Gladiators 18-12 and missed on two early power play chances. The Thunder, who came into the game with a 38.1% on the power play, couldn't convert when Ed Smith was called for hooking 49 seconds into the match.
Brian Yingling (two goals, assist) notched the game's first goal at the 2:54 mark of the second quarter. Three-and-a-half minutes later, it was 3-0 before the Thunder's Sean Connelly answered back. Yingling then started another three goal rally for the Gladiators to make it 6-1 Marple before the half.
Th teams traded goals in the third with Marple taking a 2-1 advantage in the fourth to cruise to the victory.
Game notes: Ed Smith (two assists) was voted the game's number three start, Yingling earned the second star while Yoder was named number one star...Marple's starting line-up scored six of the team's nine goals while Hartford's starting-four counted for two of their three goals...Hartford went 0-for-4 on the power play including missing on three first-period chances...Marple went 0-for-2 with the man advantage...Ed Smith was in the box three times for the Gladiators and leads the team in time in the sin-bin with 10 1/2 minutes in the playoffs. No other Marple player has been whistled more than twice in the post-season...Anthony Giusto's two minor penalties gave him 16 1/2 for the playoffs, leading all players on the rink. Giusto was whistled twice for roughing in the game...Eric Weischelbaumer of Hartford has as many goals and penalty minutes with nine.
QTR 1 2 3 4 TOT
HAR 0 1 1 1 3
MAR 0 6 1 2 9
Shots
QTR 1 2 3 4 TOT
HAR 18 12 12 13 55
MAR 12 24 18 10 64
Hartford Scoring
2nd Connelly-4 (Salvato) 6:13
3rd Weischelbaumer-9 (Riendeau) 3:39
4th Morris-3 (Salvato) 7:29
Marple Scoring
2nd B.Yingling-8 (unassisted) 2:54
2nd Jacobs-14 (unassisted) 4:39
2nd Yoder-9 (Jacobs, Smith) 5:22
2nd B.Yingling-9 (unassisted) 6:46
2nd Yoder-10 (B.Yingling) 9:36
2nd Davidson-1 (Roman) 10:33
3rd Yoder-11 (Smith) 8:44
4th Roman-2 (Davidson) :18
4th Christiano-1 (Tedesco, Deviney) 7:49
Goalies
HAR-Perry 55 saves, 64 shots faced
MAR-Viscuse 52 saves, 55 shots faced
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