Condors roughed up in rematch
| Saturday, Oct 17 2009 11:00 PM
Last Updated Saturday, Oct 17 2009 11:13 PM
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Casey Christie / The Californian Ontario's Mike Egener, left, and Bakersfield Condor, Shawn Weller, strive for the puck during Saturday night hockey action at the Rabobank Arena.
Casey Christie / The Californian Bakersfield Condor, John de Gray, left, and Shawn Weller, right, battle with Ontario's Jon Rheault, Saturday, in Bakersfield, during hockey action at the Rabobank Arena.
Casey Christie / The Californian Hockey referees keep the Bakersfield Condors, and the Ontario Reign, from mixing it up on the ice during the first period, Saturday, during hockey action at the Rabobank Arena.
Casey Christie / The Californian Condors watch the big screen in the middle of the ice during Saturday's action against the Ontario Reign. The team was wathcing a child in the stands "Make The Call."
Casey Christie / The Californian An amtrak train pulls into the downtown station, Saturday evening, at 7:10 pm, to let the southbound passengers off after their trip.
It took the Ontario Reign 39 seconds to send a message to the Bakersfield Condors on Saturday night at Rabobank Arena.
They spent the rest of the ECHL game hammering that message home en route to a 8-2 victory before 5,070.
The lopsided loss came 24 hours after the Condors handed the Reign a 5-0 whipping and from the outset it was evident the Reign were out to return the favor.
Forget all the superlatives from Friday night. This one was plain ugly from start to finish.
"We're a young team and some guys thought it was going to be easy," Condors coach Marty Raymond said. "We warned them against that. "(The Reign) are a team that got spanked (on Friday night) and they were insulted. They have pride and they responded."
From goaltender Timo Pielmeier, who was making his pro start, on out the Condors did not look anything like the team that greeted fans on Friday night.
It took Ontario's Peter Lenes just 39 seconds to score on the first shot of the game and that opened the floodgates.
The Reign had a 3-1 lead (on just nine shots) after 20 minutes and a 7-2 lead after two. By that time Greg Hogeboom already had a trick, scoring his third goal with just 5.3 seconds left on a long lead pass as he skated right past a pair of Condors defenders and sent a wrister sailing past Pielmeier.
That was it for Pielmeier, who allowed those seven goals on 19 shots, and was replaced by Justin Pogge to start the third period.
"There was no reason to keep (Pielmeier) in," Raymond said. "There's was nothing to be gained. He's only 20 years old, he'll be fine. He's a good goaltender."
Pogge stopped the bleeding, but the damage had long been done, and the lone goal allowed by Pogge came on a 5-on-3 power play as the Condors took five third0-period penalties.
"We had a lot of undisciplined play, a lot of penalties were deserved," Raymond said.
The Condors were actually in this game early as Eric Regan tied it 1-1 at 7:78 in the first period.
But Ontario scored the next three straight goal before the Condors got a ray of hope when San Sexton made it 4-2 at 8:03 of the second.
Four minutes later it was 5-2 and Bakersfield never recovered.
"We didn't execute, we didn't get dirty," Raymond said. "This was a good lesson for us."
Notes
* Forward Eric Lizon came off the 3-day IR and played. Forward Adam Naglich was placed on 3-day IR.
* The Condors hit the road next week for three games against Victoria, starting on Wednesday night.
