ANDREW FOURNIER
Brampton Guardian
BRAMPTON- The long trip home will seem a lot shorter for the Brampton Beast after finishing its first Central Hockey League road trip with a pair of wins.
On Saturday Brampton defeated the Quad City Mallards 4-3 before 3.057. The previous night Brampton won in Wichita 3-2. Brampton picked up five points from its five road games. The Beast has nine points with a 4-3-1 mark.
Andrew Fournier scored twice as Brampton outscored Quad City 3-2 in the third period. Michael MacIsaac had a first-period power-play goal at 10:38 to put the Beast up 1-0.
Quad City tied on a Jeff Lee goal from Thomas Frazee and Michael Monfredo at 6:14 of the second.
Fournier got the third period scoring going with a goal at 1:07 from Rob Collins and Jeff Martens. Corbin Baldwin tied the contest from Vladimir Nikiforov and Nicholas Rioux at 4:30 of the second.
Brett Smith restored the Beast’s lead at 5:43 from Josh McQuade. The Mallards got the equalizer from Gergo Nagy on a power play, assisted by Nikiforov and Rioux at 11:46.
Fournier connected with the game winner at 12:58 from MacIsaaac and Tyler Matheson.
The Mallards had a 32-26 advantage in shots, including 17-6 in the third period as Kristofer Westblom picked up his second win of the season in the Beast goal.
Brampton was one-of-six on the power play while Quad City was one-of-eight.
The Beast returns home for the first of three contests against the defending league champion Allen Americans on Thursday at 7 p.m. The Americans sit in first place with a 7-0-1 record and 15 points.
Allen’s No. 1 goalie is Brampton native and former Brampton Battalion goalie Bryan Pitton. He has a 4-0-1 record with a 2.86 GAA and a saves percentage of .917. Older brother Jason is a forward with the Beast.
The series at the Powerade Centre concludes with games on Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. After that the Beast has 11 consecutive road games.
Beast wins second consecutive on the road - Brampton Guardian
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