Snakes rally but lose to Ice Bears

The Columbus Cottonmouths rallied twice to tie Knoxville, but the Ice Bears went on to a 4­2 victory on Saturday night.

Dennis Sicard scored for Knoxville (2­0­0) 42 seconds into the game for a 1-0 lead in the first period.

Columbus' Louis Belisle scored at 1:09 of the second period to tie the game. Rusty

Hafner and Chris Rial had the assists.

Doug Reid scored the first of his three goals as Knoxville took a 2­1 lead at 16:57 of the second period.

Columbus' Tyler Henry tied the game at 2:01 of the third period. Shawn Bates and Ben

O'Quinn had the assists. It was Henry's second goal of the season.

Reid closed out the scoring with goals at 9:18 and 18:51, the last one an empty-netter. Columbus hosts Mississippi at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

This story was originally published October 25, 2015 at 4:40 PM with the headline "Snakes rally but lose to Ice Bears ."