Standings

Riverfront Coliseum

2nd

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After a glorious win over the Indianapolis Racers the prior night, Cincinnati played totally opposite against the Houston Aeros. The Aeros came out quick and totally dominated the opening period. The club scored three unanswered goals. The first goal coming from Marty Howe at 2:37. The second goal coming from Rich Preston at 6:20 and the third goal coming from Larry Lund at 15:49.

The Stingers finally netted a goal early into the middle period when Dennis Sobchuk fresh out of the penalty box beat the Aeros goalie Ron Grahame with a deflection . Rookie Greg Carrol followed with a goal at 10:18 in the period when he scored on a rebound of a blocked shot by Claude Larose. But the Aeros tacked another goal on the board when Terry Ruskowski scored an easy goal from the slot at 15:11.

The third period was pretty much all Houston. After the Aeros Don Larway scored at 2:44, Terry Slater went to pull Jacques Caron for Norm LaPointe. But the young goal tender was not suited up and all of his equipment was in his locker. By the time LaPointe was ready for action, Houston's Ron Hansis had already scored another goal and it was simply to late. "It just showed that we weren't ready to play". Slater would say. The Aeros added another goal later in the period by John Gray to put the Texan club up by five goals. Cincinnati finally netted a goal at 12:18 when Blaine Stoughton scored. But the game was more or less over by that point.

Slater blamed the loss on the fact that it was an afternoon game. "We haven't played well in an afternoon game yet. Part of it is the young team. They don't pace themselves after playing the previous night".   Stingers goaltender Jacques Caron stated "I was tired in the warm-up. I have to have good concentration. That's my game. When I am tired physically and mentally I can't concentrate. I was just burned out by the third period." However, in Caron's defense, he did not get the kind of assistance around the goal that he had in the previous game.

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FIRST PERIOD

GOALS - HOU: Marty Howe (Preston, Lukowich) 2:37. HOU: Preston (Hansis, Ruskowski) 6:20. HOU: Lind (Gray, Marty Howe) 15:49.

PENALTIES - HOU: Lund (fighting) 2:55. CIN: Roy (fighting) 2:55. HOU: Tonelli (high sticking) 12:39. CIN: Hughes (slashing) 15:06. CIN: Sobchuk (holding) 20:00. CIN: Semdsmo (misconduct) 20:00.

SECOND PERIOD

GOALS - CIN: Sobchuk (Steele, Plumb) 2:43. CIN: Carroll (Melrose, Larose) 12:18. HOU: Ruskowski (Mark Howe, McLeod) 15:11.

PENALTIES - HOU: Taylor (hooking) 3:48. HOU: Connor (fighting & misconduct) 8:42. CIN: Roy (fighting) 8:42.

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THIRD PERIOD

GOALS - HOU: Larway (Popiel) 2:44. HOU: Hansis (McLeod, Gray) 3:06. HOU: Gray (Hansis) 11:49. CIN: Stoughton (Roy) 12:18.

PENALTIES - None

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SHOTS ON GOAL

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GOALTENDERS - CIN: Caron. HOU: Grahame

ATTENDANCE - 6,925

REFEREE - Bill Friday

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