{"id":109303,"date":"2026-01-03T06:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109303\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T06:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:20:08","slug":"icerays-corral-wranglers-in-4-2-series-opener-corpus-christi-ends-losing-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109303\/","title":{"rendered":"IceRays corral Wranglers in 4-2 series opener, Corpus Christi ends losing skid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Corpus Christi IceRays (14-15-3) outscored and outshot the Amarillo Wranglers (14-16-1) Friday night 4-2 at the Hilliard Center, ending a four-game losing skid. The IceRays outshot the Wranglers 49\u201317.<\/p>\n<p>IceRays&#8217; Justin Thibault scored first goal of the game in the second period. Amarillo responded quickly, as Kirill Evstigneev buried a one-timer. In the same period, IceRays Islom Dzabberganov scored on a 4-on-4 to put Corpus Christi back on top 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>In the third period, IceRays&#8217; Andrej Paricka gave Corpus Christi the 3-1 lead on a back door pass for his 11th goal of the season. Amarillo&#8217;s Ty Izadi snapped cut the deficit back to one, but then IceRays&#8217; Johnny Maruna broke free making the score 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi will look to sweep the series on Saturday at 7:05 p.m. at the Hilliard Center. All Nueces County employees get in free when they show a valid ID at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets start at just $5! Student and Active Military Tickets are available at the Hilliard Center Box Office with valid ID. Grab yours now at www.goicerays.com, on Ticketmaster, or at the Hilliard Center box office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Corpus Christi IceRays (14-15-3) outscored and outshot the Amarillo Wranglers (14-16-1) Friday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13723,2648,48967,155,157,156,44362,48968,3810,44363,48969,48970],"class_list":["post-109303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-13723","tag-amarillo","tag-andrej-paricka","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-icerays","tag-islom-dzhabberganov","tag-january","tag-nahl","tag-north-american-hockey-league","tag-wranglers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}