Roller: Squirrels 4, Jesters 3

In one of the weirdest games of the season, the Squirrels pulled away from the Jesters on Thursday and held on in the second game of the night for both teams.

Both teams skated to a 0-0 tie in the first period, as the Squirrels survived being down a man for five minutes. Just two shifts into the second period, the teams traded goals in a nine-second span.  Mark Tessar scored his second of the game a few minutes later, then got a natural hattrick on the power play. Don Marks pushed the score to 4-1 with just 3:10 remaining.

But the Jesters weren’t done, scoring once with two minutes remaining, then somehow snuck in a shot with under a minute left to put the game within reach.

The Squirrels, however, killed off the rest, before an errant clear sailed across the rink and into the netting, giving the Jesters one last offensive-zone face-off with a second remaining. The Squirrels survived, leapfrogging the Jesters back into first place.