Meijer AAA takes two from the Indians

This weekend pitted the Indians against Meijer AAA from Lansing in a pair of games at the Suburban Ice Arena.  Saturday afternoons games played out as a chippy game and Indians couldn’t muster any offense failing 5-0,  Alex Rairigh was in net for the Indians.  Sunday mornings game, a MAHA league game, played out much different as both teams battled hard at both ends of the ice, with neither teams scoring in the first period.  In the second period Meijer finally broke the ice taking an 1-0 lead at the end of the second period.  Early in the second period Meijer add another goal before Garth Wickham scored on a pass from Jeff Rahilly to get the Indians back within one goal.  Three minutes later Jason Kasper won the face off draw to Bren Lyons who scored to tie the game.  Neither team could get the go ahead goal and sent the game to overtime.  Early in overtime Meijer cleared the puck out of the Indians corner and it deflected into the net for the winning goal.  The Indians did pick up 1 point for the tie in the MAHA standings due to the tie.  Dmitri Kochan played excellent in net.

The Indians will be home at the Taffy Abel Arena next Saturday at 3pm and Sunday 10 am when they take on Fox Motors from Grand Rapids.