Nolan Renwick scored his second goal of the season at 9:38 of the second period, which proved the game-winner as the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins rolled to a 6-2 victory over rival Lehigh Valley on Sunday afternoon in Allentown.<\/p>\n
It marked the fifth win of the season over the Phantoms, improved the Penguins to 29-12-2-2 and moved them within three points of red hot Providence in the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n
Aidan McDonough scored his ninth goal of the season at 14:30 of the first period to give the Penguins a 1-0 lead. Matt Dumba and Chase Pietila recorded the assists.<\/p>\n
Lehigh Valley\u2019s Lane Pederson tied the game at 4:23 of the second period before Renwick found the back of the net to put the Penguins ahead, 2-1.<\/p>\n
In the third period, Bokondji Imama, Avery Hayes and Owen Pickering all scored to put the Pens ahead, 5-1. After the Phantoms cut the lead to 5-2, Rafael Harvey-Pinard capped the scoring for the Penguins with his 12th of the season.<\/p>\n
Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton\u2019s Matt Dumba recorded four assists, while goalie Joel Blomqvist earned the win in goal with 23 saves on 25 shots.<\/p>\n
The Penguins return home Wednesday night at 7:05 to take on the Hershey Bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nolan Renwick scored his second goal of the season at 9:38 of the second period, which proved the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1902,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-102579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-penguins","9":"tag-scranton","10":"tag-scranton-headlines","11":"tag-scranton-news","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102579","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=102579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}