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Panthers get comeback win versus Huskies
Posted: Jan 25, 2015

Panthers get comeback win versus Huskies

Box Score
Scoring Summary
1st - 15:53 - Bradley Greene (Saint Mary's)
2nd - 11:47 - Mason Wilgosh (UPEI)
2nd - 16:18 - Mason Wilgosh (UPEI)
3rd - 13:40 - Chris Desousa (UPEI)
Game Leaders
Saint Mary's
G: Bradley Greene - 1
A: 2 Players (#44, #55) - 1
Sh: Matt Tipoff - 4
Sv: Anthony Peters - 28
UPEI
G: Mason Wilgosh - 2
A: 2 Players (#26, #28) - 2
Sh: Chris Desousa - 9
Sv: Mavric Parks - 30
Team Stats
Full stats

(Charlottetown, PE) – After giving up a goal in the first period, UPEI scored 3 straight the rest of the way to beat Saint Mary's 3-1 Saturday night at MacLauchlan Arena in Charlottetown in front of 845 fans.

With the win, the Panthers improve to 10-11-2 on the season and sit fifth in the AUS, while the Huskies fall to 16-7-1 and sit in fourth position in the conference.
UPEI came out of the gates a little slow, but rallied behind strong games from goaltender Mavric Parks (Eganville, ON), captain, Mason Wilgosh (Winnipeg, MB) and assistant captains Chris Desousa (Mississauga, ON) and Tyler Brown (Detroit, MI) to put 3 goals in the net in the final two periods.
The first period was relatively quiet with only 14 total shots, however Saint Mary's was able to score a late goal with 4 minutes left. Bradley Greene (Tilting, NL) scored the goal for the Huskies with assists going to Stephen Gillard (St. John's, NL) and Ben Duffy (Lower Sackville, NS). Saint Mary's goalie Anthony Peters (Blyth, ON) was solid in the net, stopping all 8 shots he faced in the period.
 

The momentum switched in the second period with Mason Wilgosh scoring two goals less than 5 minutes apart for the Panthers. The first goal came 12 minutes into the period and was assisted by his assistant captains, Chris Desousa and Tyler Brown. The second goal came 16:18 into the period and saw assists go to Desousa and Nelson Armstrong (Peterborough, ON). UPEI outshot the Huskies 17-9 in the period.

The third period saw Saint Mary's outshoot UPEI 16-6 but Parks was equal to the challenge, stopping each of those shots. The third and final Panthers goal came with 6:20 left when Desousa put a shot in the back of the net off a pass from Brown.

Parks stopped all but one of the 31 shots he faced from Saint Mary's, while Peters stopped 28 of the 31 shots that UPEI put on net.

The Subway AUS player of the game was UPEI's Mason Wilgosh who finished the game with 2 goals.
 

UPEI has three road games in the next week, visiting Moncton (8-13-2) on Wednesday, Saint Mary's on Friday, and St. FX (16-7-1) on Saturday. Saint Mary's will be at home to UPEI and Saint Thomas (2-17-4) on Friday and Saturday. All games are at 7:00 pm.

 

Source: Ryan Lloyd for UPEI Sports Information