FRIDAY NIGHT SWIM

BINGHAMTON- The Binghamton Black Bears defeated the Baton Rouge Kingfish 6-2 in the inaugural matchup between the organizations.  Chance Gorman recorded his first hat trick with the Black Bears and Scott Ramaekers added a pair to go with it. 

The sold-out crowd had to show patience to start cheering in the Friday night battle.  Neither side was able to crack the scoreboard in the first period.  When it came time for the scoring, it was the visitors from Louisiana who got on the board first.

Baton Rouge scored on their third power play to take their only lead of the night.  90 seconds later, Chance Gorman was able to tie the game for the Black Bears.  From there on, Binghamton did not look back.  45 seconds after their first goal, Binghamton took the lead on a bar-down shot from Scott Ramaekers.  Soon after, CJ Stubbs joined the party with his seventh of the season.  Binghamton had scored three times within 3:06 of gametime. 

With a two-goal lead going into the third, Binghamton did not ease off the gas.  Gorman grabbed his second on a two-man advantage and while the fans were still cheer, he snagged his third.  Gorman becomes the second player to record a hat trick this season with the Black Bears and did so in a second-straight game (Dabrowski 10/31). 

Ramaekers added one more for good measure and the Black Bears would cruise to a 6-2 victory over the Kingfish. 

Binghamton improves to 7-1-0 on the season with 14pts