{"id":101380,"date":"2026-01-31T05:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101380\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T05:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:09:30","slug":"royals-take-game-1-in-reading-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101380\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Take Game 1 In Reading 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, PA \u2013 The Greensboro Gargoyles fought to tie the game twice early in Friday night\u2019s contest, but fell to the Reading Royals 5-2 at the Santander Arena.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spie-24.jpg\" alt=\"Royals Take Game 1 In Reading 5-2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Royals struck first 6:02 into the first period, but Greensboro found the equalizer 1:34 later as Graeme McCrory scored his first career goal, finding a rebound from Anthony Rinaldi\u2019s shot. The Royals would regain their lead with 1:37 left in the period.<\/p>\n<p>Greensboro opened the second period as Blake Biondi tied the game 2-2, scoring in his first ECHL game. Biondi was loaned from the Chicago Wolves on Thursday, making his Greensboro debut Friday. Reading scored twice more in the second period at 7:22 and 19:03, then iced the win making the score 5-2 at 7:09 in the third.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a good skate this morning, we didn\u2019t have a good start,\u201d said Head Coach Scott Burt. \u201cI thought we found our game about the 12 minute mark in the first period, but again we were chasing the game\u2026 We have to flush this. We have to come back tomorrow with a clean skate and our head on our shoulders and be ready from the get-go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Gargoyles have one more game in Reading Saturday night at 7 PM before returning home for five games. Puck drop on Tuesday, February 3 against Atlanta has been postponed from 10:30 AM to 7 PM at the First Horizon Coliseum. Tickets and more information regarding the recent schedule changes are available at gargoyleshockey.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foco.vegb.net\/c\/3065197\/1608989\/10075\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762661229_106_image001-1.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, PA \u2013 The Greensboro Gargoyles fought to tie the game twice early in Friday night\u2019s contest, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-101380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}