Indianapolis- The Indy Fuel win the first of a three-game series against the Rapid City Rush 5-4 in an overtime win at Fishers Event Center witnessed by 2,715 people.
Rapid City, running only three lines due to injuries and suspensions, started strong scoring first with Hubbarde’s ( Pauls, Wood ) goal at 5:45. Smedsrud (Chyzowski, Murphy) at 12:02 doubled the lead.
Indy’s Robinson ( Cameron, Lombardi) at 15:06 halved that lead.
Chyzowski (Smedsrud ) with only 2:06 left in the period brought the Rush’s lead to 3-1 to end the first period.
The second period brought some textbook hockey. Wagner’s (Wilkie, Van Unen) goal at 13:03 was matched by Indys’ Panwar (Petgrave, Lapid) at 14:26.
Lombardi( Ennis, Tucker )at 16:31 stole the insurance goal.
The second period ended 4-3 in favor of the Rush.
The Rapid City Rushes minor penalty for hooking ( Fyten) at 2:33 of the third period set up the Panwar ( Israels, Grima) power play goal at 4:03.
The third period ended in a 4-4 tie.
The Fuels’ Lapid (Petgrave ,Robinson) slipped the biscuit in at 1:02 of the overtime to earn the win for the Indy Fuel.
Shots on goal were 18 to 38 in favor of Indy. The winning goalies for the Indy Fuel were Weeks /Flores with Murphy taking the loss for Rapid City.
These teams will meet again at the Fishers Event Center on Friday, November 14th.
The next Rush home game is against the Kansas City Mavericks on November 21st. Contact the Rush at 605-716-7825 or at www.rapidcityrush.com for information regarding this game and all future Rapid City Rush events.
