October 13, 2006- The RoughRiders set a new team record for goals in one game in a 10-3 romp over the host Chicago Steel Friday night.
Jacob Cepis’ hat trick keyed the Rider onslaught as the Cedar Rapids scored seven unanswered goals to break open what had been a back-and-forth game early on.
Less than a minute after Chicago’s Ben Beaudoin tied the score at three at 5:12 of the second period, Andy Miele shoveled a Brett Dickinson feed home from the doorstep to put Cedar Rapids on top for good and chase Steel starting goaltender Richard Bachman from the game.
Just one minute and 14 seconds later, Pat Cannone welcomed relief netminder Rob Madore to the game with a wraparound goal that made it 5-3.
Cepis struck for what was his second goal of the night at 15:18 of the second. The second year forward streaked into the goal mouth to bury a nifty centering feed from David Boehm and stretch the Rider advantage to three goals.
Exactly two minutes later, Doug Jones scored from the right wing circle, enabling the RoughRiders to take a 7-3 lead into the dressing room after two periods.
There was no let up in the third period as the Riders ripped off three more goals to make club history.
Aaron Bogosian scored the Riders’ eighth from a bad angle at the 8:22 mark of the third.
Cannone scored his second goal and the team’s record-tying ninth of the night when he crashed the net to jam the puck in at 13:53.
Fittingly, it was Cepis who scored the record breaker by completing his hat trick with just over three minutes left in the game. Rob Bordson fed the puck into the goal mouth and Cepis buried it from close range to make it 10-3.
Cepis had also provided the Riders’ first goal of the evening. After Cory Chakeen gave Chicago a 1-0 lead at 2:14 of the first period, the Riders evened the score while on the power play when Cepis buried a Boehm centering pass at 10:17 of the first.
The Riders took the lead for the first time just over two minutes later. Cedar Rapids was again up a man when Brett Dickinson’s blue line blast made it 2-1.
The Steel bounced back to even the score at two apiece with a power play goal of its own at 18:02 of the opening period. Scott Kozlak swept a Mike Embach pass home from the slot to deadlock game- but only briefly.
The Riders moved back on top a mere 56 seconds later with their third power play goal of the period. Sergei Kolosov jumped into the slot and wristed Miele’s drop pass past Bachman to give the Riders a 3-2 edge.
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