Lobsters Slay Snakes in OT

Regulation Not Enough to End Regular Season; Lobsters Slay Snakes in OT

MONROE, LA. - The Athens Rock Lobsters ended the regular season Saturday night in the Monroe Civic Center with a 5-4 overtime win against the Monroe Moccasins. 

Extending his point streak to eight games, Dustin Perillat started the scoring for the second-straight night on a one timer past Nolan Egbert 6:33 into the contest.

Thirty-two year old Frank Schumacher, having the best offensive season of his 12-year pro career, equalized at 10:14 on a rebound with a man advantage. 

Michael Hagen Moe finished off a tic-tac-toe move in the second period from Monroe to take the Snakes’ first lead of the weekend at 2-1. Jamie Dorsey scored on a resulting power play for delay of game, after Athens challenged Moe’s goal for the net being off its moorings.

Athens scratched one back in the early stages of the third period through Josh Koepplinger. An early signing in franchise history but never lacing up the skates for the Lobsters last year, the Michigan native made it a 3-2 game. 

Scoring a bardown beauty, Kyler Matthews restored a multi-goal lead three minutes later. 

The Cardiac Crustaceans refused to give in, scoring two goals in three minutes with Perillat’s second of the night and a Carter Shinkaruk one-timer from a knee. to tie the game up with three minutes left.

The game went to overtime and the Rock Lobsters continued its elite form in extra hockey, after Gus Ford took a piece of a Shinkaruk shot that knuckled over Nolan Egbert.

The Athens Rock Lobsters look to the postseason after finishing off the regular season with a 35-11-9-1 record and 125 points. They begin their Commissioner’s Cup run with a Friday, April 17 game against the Pee Dee IceCats at Akins Ford Arena. Puck drops at 7:05 p.m. and tickets can be found here.