Power-play goals lead Pensacola over Cottonmouths

The Pensacola Ice Flyers got three power play goals Friday night and held on to defeat the Columbus Cottonmouths 5-3 at the Pensacola Civic Center.

Brandon Lubin and Kyle Shapiro (power play) scored in the first period to put the Ice Flyers up 2-0.

The Snakes’ Riley Spraggs made it 2-1 at 3:40 of the second period after getting assists from Craig Simchuk and Keegan Bruce. Less than three minutes later Spraggs tied the game on a power-play goal after getting assists from Spencer Galbraith and Simchuk.

Pensacola then got back-to-back power play goals from Austin McKay and Nick McParland at 9:39 and 13:00.

Jonathan Turk brought Columbus to within one at 4-3 after getting an assist from Petr Senkerik at 17:45 of the second period.

The Ice Flyers’ Andrew Schmidt closed out the scoring with an empty-net goal at 19:40 of the third period.

The Snakes and Ice Flyers played again Saturday night.

This story was originally published November 12, 2016 at 4:59 PM with the headline "Power-play goals lead Pensacola over Cottonmouths."