JACKSONVILLE, FL. (WCIV) \u2014 South Carolina snatched a 3-2 overtime win against the Icemen in Jacksonville Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville opened the scoring early in the first period through Craig Martin, but the Stingrays were able to level the score at 1-1 when Jordan Klimek scored from the point with just under six minutes left in the frame. <\/p>\n
The Stingrays briefly took the lead in the second when Zac Funk buried a loose puck, but the Icemen responded seconds later with Ryan Pitoscia scoring to tie it at 2-2 heading into the third period.<\/p>\n
South Carolina was on the back foot for much of the last period of regulation due to penalties, but the penalty kill held strong to force overtime still knotted at 2-2.<\/p>\n
Charlie Combs was called for hooking in OT, putting the Stingrays’ penalty kill unit on the ice once again. As Jacksonville pushed for a winner, Seth Eisele held strong in net for South Carolina and stopped two point blank chances to keep the Rays alive.<\/p>\n
Right after the penalty expired, Rays forward Josh Wilkins forced a turnover and powered home the winner. The win marks South Carolina’s seventh in overtime this season, and Eisele’s seventh win in his last eight appearances in goal.<\/p>\n
The Stingrays next game is Sunday, March 1 at home against the Savannah Ghost Pirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, FL. (WCIV) \u2014 South Carolina snatched a 3-2 overtime win against the Icemen in Jacksonville Saturday night.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-174126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}