{"id":287838,"date":"2026-04-27T08:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287838\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:21:18","slug":"firebirds-too-hot-for-condors-in-game-3-theahl-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287838\/","title":{"rendered":"Firebirds too hot for Condors in Game 3 | TheAHL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\"\"Photo: Brandon Magpantay<\/p>\n

The Coachella Valley Firebirds secured a spot in the division semifinals on Sunday with a 6-2 win over Bakersfield in the winner-take-all Game 3 of their Pacific Division first-round series at Acrisure Arena.<\/p>\n

The Firebirds will next take on the division champion Ontario Reign. Game 1 of that best-of-five set is Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

After a scoreless first period in which they were outshot 15-5, Coachella Valley scored four times in the second, with J.R. Avon<\/a>, Jagger Firkus<\/a>, Jacob Melanson<\/a> and Jani Nyman<\/a> all putting pucks past Bakersfield netminder Matt Tomkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Damien Carfagna<\/a> and Quinn Hutson<\/a> cut the Condors\u2019 deficit to 4-2 with 11:42 to play, but Nyman stole a puck and set up Logan Morrison<\/a> for an insurance marker with 3:10 remaining. Oscar Fisker M\u00f8lgaard<\/a>, coming off a two-goal effort in Game 2, added an empty-netter 34 seconds later.<\/p>\n

Nikke Kokko<\/a> entered Game 3 with a .737 save percentage in the series, but finished the night with 31 saves to earn the win in net.<\/p>\n

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(Coachella Valley wins series, 2-1)
Game 1 \u2013 Thu., Apr. 23 \u2013 BAKERSFIELD 6, Coachella Valley 1<\/a>
Game 2 \u2013 Sat., Apr. 25 \u2013 COACHELLA VALLEY 5, Bakersfield 4<\/a>
Game 3 \u2013 Sun., Apr. 26 \u2013 COACHELLA VALLEY 6, Bakersfield 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Brandon Magpantay The Coachella Valley Firebirds secured a spot in the division semifinals on Sunday with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-287838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287838","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=287838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}