ONTARIO, CA. — For the second time in lower than 24 hours, the Ontario Reign matched up towards the Bakersfield Condors.
Last night time, Ontario took dwelling the 4-3 win in Bakersfield, elevating them into first place within the Pacific Division.
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Tonight the Reign (31-14-1-1; 64 factors) would declare a 4-3 victory towards the Condors but once more, bettering their season document to 5-1-0 towards Bakersfield.
Koehn Ziemmer scored the final three objectives tonight, concurrently incomes his first profession hat trick and Ontario’s first hat trick since 2024.
“I think I’ve been growing my game a lot,” Ziemmer mentioned. “And I think tonight kind of showed what I’m capable of.”
Ontario coach Andrew Lord mentioned Bakersfield (25-14-7-0; 57 factors) got here out with a vengeance after final night time’s recreation.
“They (Bakersfield) upped the ante on us early,” Lord mentioned. “We had to scratch and claw to get back into that game and it was really nice to see how it went the last two periods.”
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Riley Stillman and James Hamblin scored inside two minutes of one another, handing the Condors an early 2-0 lead.
With an help from Nikita Alexandrov, Cole Guttman would rating a power-play purpose for his seventeenth purpose of the season.
But Bakersfield’s Damien Carfagna would discover the again of the online earlier than the primary interval ended to put the Condors on high 3-1.
“The second and third was our way,” Lord mentioned. “Playing fast, playing behind them – on the forecheck, on the cycle. I thought our group was really relentless and (our) shot volume was there, the traffic was there…”
Lord smiled and mentioned:
“…And then Ziemmer was there.”
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Ziemmer’s first purpose got here 2:40 into the second interval and he discovered the again of the online two extra instances within the closing interval to full a hat trick and lead Ontario to their third straight win.
Pheonix Copley had 18 saves and Ontario completed with 31 pictures on purpose in contrast to Bakersfield’s 21 pictures.
The Reign went 1-for-6 on the ability play and the Condors went 0-for-3.
Ontario has every week off as they head into the All-Star break and can journey to Abbotsford to face the Canucks (16-26-3-3; 38 factors) Saturday at 7 p.m.