{"id":184406,"date":"2026-02-19T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184406\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:17:11","slug":"bakersfield-condors-reverse-deficit-to-win-the-rink-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184406\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield Condors reverse deficit to win &#8211; The Rink Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bakersfield Condors were the underdogs, trailing by three goals after the first period in game on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026 against the Coachella Valley Firebirds. Despite this, the team turned it around and won 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield&#8217;s Roby J\u00e4rventie scored the game-winning goal.<\/p>\n<p>The Valley Firebirds opened strong, at the beginning of the game with Zach Uens scoring in the first minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Valley Firebirds made it 2-0 in the first period when Carson Rehkopf scored.<\/p>\n<p>The Valley Firebirds increased the lead to 3-0 with a goal from <\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/565465\/jagger-firkus\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jagger Firkus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       in the middle of the first period.<\/p>\n<p>The Condors narrowed the gap to 3-1 early in the second period when Atro Lepp\u00e4nen scored.<\/p>\n<p>The Condors narrowed the gap again, only one second into the third when <\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/201363\/james-hamblin\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Hamblin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       beat the goalie.<\/p>\n<p>Damien Carfagna tied it up 3-3 with a goal eight minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Roby J\u00e4rventie also took the lead with a goal six minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Next up:<\/p>\n<p>Both teams are back in action on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026, with the Condors facing the Wranglers at 9 p.m. CST and the Valley Firebirds playing the Eagles at 8:05 p.m. CST.<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.therinklive.com\/sports\/pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more pro hockey coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scoring:<\/p>\n<p>AHL<\/p>\n<p>3rd February 2026<\/p>\n<p>Coachella Valley Firebirds at Bakersfield Condors<\/p>\n<p>4-3<\/p>\n<p>1st period:<\/p>\n<p>Coachella Valley Firebirds, 1\u20130 (1:24) Zach Uens<\/p>\n<p>Coachella Valley Firebirds, 2\u20130 (4:14) Carson Rehkopf<\/p>\n<p>Coachella Valley Firebirds, 3\u20130 (12:12) Jagger Firkus<\/p>\n<p>2nd period:<\/p>\n<p>3\u20131 (21:44) Atro Lepp\u00e4nen<\/p>\n<p>3rd period:<\/p>\n<p>3\u20132 (41:01) James Hamblin, 3\u20133 (49:21) Damien Carfagna, 3\u20134 (55:40) Roby J\u00e4rventie<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therinklive.com\/the-rink-live-textbot\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"The Rink Live Textbot\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.forumcomm.com\/dims4\/default\/d4dc9a1\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1300x1300+310+0\/resize\/100x100!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fd0%2F91%2F14f9b4e549b9b570325c2183a9fe%2Ftrl-icon-author-page.jpg\" data-lazy-load=\"true\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDBweCIgd2lkdGg9IjEwMHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Automated articles produced by United Robots on behalf of The Rink Live.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bakersfield Condors were the underdogs, trailing by three goals after the first period in game on Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-184406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}