{"id":228153,"date":"2026-04-12T02:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:19:12","slug":"south-carolina-stingrays-south-carolina-shut-out-by-florida-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228153\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Stingrays | SOUTH CAROLINA SHUT OUT BY FLORIDA, 5-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESTERO, FL &#8211; The South Carolina Stingrays dropped their final regular-season meeting with the Florida Everblades, 5-0, on Saturday night at Hertz Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Florida (47-13-7-3) opened the scoring in the first minute for the second straight game, as Kyle Betts found the back of the net 52 seconds in to make it 1-0. The Everblades doubled their lead just over six minutes\u00a0in before Oliver Cooper added another with 1:35 remaining in the first period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trailing by three, South Carolina (43-23-1-3) searched for an answer in the second period, but two Everblades goals eight seconds apart pushed the home side\u2019s lead to 5-0 with 14:22 remaining in the frame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just past the midway point, a scrum in the Stingrays\u2019 attacking zone led to 10-minute misconduct penalties for every skater on the ice. After tensions settled, the Everblades carried the five-goal lead into the third period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neither side scored in the third period as\u00a0Jesper Vikman, who replaced\u00a0Seth Eisele in the second, stopped all nine shots he faced. The Stingrays couldn\u2019t solve Kyle McClellan, who made seven saves in the third to complete a 26-save shutout as Florida beat South Carolina, 5-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Stingrays head to Savannah, Georgia next Friday for their final road game of the regular season against the Savannah Ghost Pirates. Puck drop is slated for 7 p.m. from Enmarket Arena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">___<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">South Carolina returns to the North Charleston Coliseum on Saturday, April 18, against the Orlando Solar Bears for Fan Appreciation Night, presented by\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ampedelectricllp.com\/\">Amped Electric<\/a>, at 6:05 p.m. The full schedule can be viewed on our website<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/stingrayshockey.com\/?utm_campaign=14393165-Off-season%202025&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_dpZcdsLTq8CKL4yLzm52ZS0HHfFnFzVsN3TkaUiE4RlMJWXU7eNpCqaWUo9YPI9NK0KcW#schedule\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The Stingrays are heading to the 2026 Kelly Cup Playoffs, presented by\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plumbprosc.com\/\">Plumb Pro+<\/a>, for the 30th time in franchise history. Tickets for Round 1 home games 1 and 2 are available now at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/stingrayshockey.com\">stingrayshockey.com<\/a> and\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ticketmaster.com\">Ticketmaster.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">2026-27 Season ticket plans are on sale now! For more information or to purchase, contact the Stingrays by phone at 843-744-7418 or\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/stingrayshockey.com\/tickets\/season-tickets\">submit this form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Follow the Stingrays on\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SCStingraysHockey\/\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/scstingrays\">Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/scstingrayshockey\">Instagram<\/a> for all the latest news and updates.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESTERO, FL &#8211; The South Carolina Stingrays dropped their final regular-season meeting with the Florida Everblades, 5-0, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-228153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228153","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=228153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}