Indians fall to west Michigan 4-3

In the first of a two game series the Indians came up one goal short. West Michigan opened the scoring in the first period and held the lead through the period. In the first minute of the second period Brenden MacLaren scored on a nice pass from Cole Lussier and Ashton Calder to tie the game, however the Hounds answered back with two goals to take a 3-1 lead into the dressing room at the end of two periods. In the third the Indians fought back on goals from Chris Hazen assisted by Josh Delaney and another from Ethan St.Germain assisted by Mike Miller to knot the score at 3-3. At the 12:29 mark the West Michigan player batted a loose puck pasted the Indians goaltender from the eventual game winner closing the game out for a 4-3 win for the Hounds. CJ Boothe stopped 31 shots in a loosing effort.

Both teams return to action at 12pm tomorrow at the Taffy Abel Arena.