Show Grizz Lose at Home By Eric Bresee Contributing Writer T i Playing their first games against opponents outside their division the Utah Grizzlies split a two game set with the Cleveland Lumberjacks Oct 23 and 24 The split came after a 7 1 drubbing drubbing drubbing drub drub- bing of rival arch-rival Las Vegas Oct 21 at the Thomas Mack Center Center Chris Taylor scored his point in a grizzlies uniform as ashe ashe ashe he scored two goals and two assists against the Thunder Utah returned to the West Valley Events Center to take on the Lumberjacks Oct 23 The Grizz lost 4 The Lumberjacks jumped on top early in the first period as Golden ex-Golden Eagle Jock Callander beat goalie Mark MacArthur off a rebound Cleveland got on the board again in the second when Brett H Harkins got gota a backhander past MacArthur four minutes into the period Less than a minute later one of the newest Grizzlies John LeBlanc deflected a Mark Lawrence shot past Jacks goalie Pat Jablonski to cut the deficit to one at 2 Utah tied the game 10 minutes later as Jeff Sharples Sharpies scored Utah's third short-handed short goal of the year With 40 seconds left in the second second second sec sec- ond Cleveland shot the puck on MacArthur He tried to clear the puck but sent it right to Jacks winger Rob Pearson Pearson shot the puck before MacArthur was in position and scored Before the end of the second Utah struck back With Cleveland Mark Cornforth in the penalty box Jaroslav rifled a shot past Jablonski to tie the game at three Cleveland winger Brad Lauer scored the winner game-winner five and a half minutes into the third Utah ranked second in the league on the power-play power percent but only scored on one of 10 power-plays power on the night Our penalty-killing penalty unit will sleep well tonight said Cleveland Head Coach Perry Ganchar said They did their job In the second game Utah defeated defeat defeat- ed Cleveland 2 Wade Flaherty stopped all 33 shots he faced as he recorded Utah's first shutout of the year John and LeBlanc recorded the tallies for Utah Utah's record stands at 7 3 for 15 points The Grizzlies are in second second second sec sec- I ond place behind the Long Beach Ice Dogs 17 points in the IHL's Southwest Division Long Beach however has played three more games than Utah Utah travels to Las Vegas for their next game Their next home game is Oct 30 against the Milwaukee Admirals |