Charlie Burchfield scored twice and Ethan Phillips made 35 saves as the Shreveport Mudbugs defeated Corpus Christi, 4-1, on George’s Pond to complete a sweep of an NAHL South Division play-in series.<\/p>\n
Shreveport Mudbugs defeated Corpus Christi Ice Rays 4-1 to take the play-in series 2-0. They advance to the South Division semifinals. <\/p>\n
The Mudbugs exacted some revenge on the IceRays, who swept Shreveport out of the postseason last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saturday’s victory came on the heels of Friday’s dominant 7-2 effort in Game 1.\u00a0Corpus had a finish to the 2026 season to forget. In a wild move, the fourth-seeded IceRays fired their first-year head coach Kevin St. Jacques less than two weeks ago.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sunday, the fifth-seeded Mudbugs will learn the identity of their next playoff opponent.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The other South Division play-in series (Oklahoma at El Paso) is tied at 1. If El Paso wins Sunday, the Mudbugs will face top-seeded Lone Star in a best-of-5 South semifinal series. If Oklahoma wins Sunday, Shreveport will face No. 2 New Mexico.<\/p>\n
No matter, the Mudbugs will open on the road for the first two games.<\/p>\n
Game 3 of the series will take place at The George on April 24. Game 4, if necessary, will be April 25.<\/p>\n
After a scoreless first period Saturday, Joseph Samango gave the Mudbugs a 1-0 lead late in the second period with a power-play goal. Johnathan Berndt made the lead 2-0 with another power-play tally 4:46 into the final period.<\/p>\n
Burchfield, who made his debut for Shreveport Feb 7, scored the last two goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Burchfield scored twice and Ethan Phillips made 35 saves as the Shreveport Mudbugs defeated Corpus Christi, 4-1,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-245962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245962","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=245962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}