Sold-out crowd watches Toledo beat Bakersfield!
1/26/2013 - (Toledo, OH)-The Toledo Walleye scored five unanswered goals tonight to defeat the Bakersfield Condors 5-1 in front of a sold-out crowd of 8,200 at the Huntington Center on Saturday night. Toledo improves their record to 22-17-0-4 and is now 10-7-0-3 at home.
Bakersfield opened the scoring just :52 into the game when Peter Boyd squeezed a puck over the goal line to give the Condors an early 1-0 lead.
The Walleye would answer back at the 5:08 mark of the opening period after forward Doug Clarkson picked up a rebound and wristed a shot behind Bakersfield goaltender Brian Stewart. Pat Knowlton assisted on the play that evened the scoring up at 1-1.
Toledo took a 2-1 lead with 1:28 to play in the first period with Cody Lampl chipping in on the offense. Lampl jumped up into the play and took a great give-and-go pass from Andrej Nestrasil and redirected a puck behind Stewart.
Walleye goalie Kent Simpson stopped 11 shots in the first 20:00 while Toledo fired 16 at the Bakersfield net.
Forward Trevor Parkes would pick up his second goal of the year after he banged home a shot from the ice on the power play. Parkes knocked in the rebound of Joey Martin’s initial shot with the second assist going to Nestrasil at 11:54 of the second period.
The Walleye registered 12 shots at Stewart for a two-period total of 28. Simpson stopped all eight that Bakersfield sent at him.
Forward Joey Martin rifled a shot into the net after a Bakersfield player ran Parkes into Stewart. Martin’s seventh goal of the year came at 10:31 of the third period, extending Toledo’s lead to 4-1. Lampl collected the second assist on the goal.
Martin picked up his second of the night just :41 later, redirecting a pass from Parkes, to put the Walleye ahead 5-1. Nestrasil picked up his third assist of the night on the final goal of the game.
Walleye Wrap-Up:
-Walleye goaltender Kent Simpson picked up the win, saving 29 shots on goal and is 9-9-0-3 this season.
-Toledo is 4-2-0 all-time against the Condors.
-The Walleye out shot the Condors 38-30 during the game.
-Tonight’s game marked the fourth sellout of the season and the 34th in the history of the Toledo Walleye. Thank you, Toledo!
The Walleye are home tomorrow afternoon at 5:05 p.m. when they take on the Evansville IceMen at the Huntington Center. The first 1,500 fans through the gates will receive a free CatTrick Coin Bank, courtesy of OH Lottery and BCSN. Bring non-perishable food and toiletry items to be donated to the Toledo Seagate Food Bank, Cherry Street Mission and Fellowship Matters. For ticket information, fans can call 419-725-9255, visit the Huntington Center box office or log on to www.toledowalleye.com.
Game Story By: Samantha Hoot
