Omran Wahidy

The Rough House was cozied up on PJ Party night for the second night of a back-to-back Sunday, but the Roughnecks (2-8) fell to a fourth-quarter flurry from the Georgia Swarm (7-3) by a score of 11-6.

Justin Inacio led the offence, scoring his first two goals of the season against Georgia, while Jacob Dunbar cashed in his first goal in a Riggers sweater.

THE NUMBERS:

Justin Inacio – 2 pts (2G)

Brayden Mayea – 2 pts (1G, 1A)

Tanner Cook – 2 pts (2A)

Aden Walsh – 40/50 saves

The Riggers opened up the scoring just 22 seconds into the game off a nice feed from Cook to Tyler Pace to take the lead.

Georgia responded with a pair of goals before the crowd erupted when Inacio sniped home his first of the season to tie it up.

The Swarm scored another goal before the end of the first to take a 3-2 lead after one quarter.

It was deja-vu to start the second when Inacio took a face-off win to Georgia territory and tucked in his second goal of the night to even it up.

Georgia answered with two goals in 53 seconds from Lyle Thompson and Calgary-product Kean Moon to take a 5-3 lead going into halftime.

The third quarter took off with a Swarm goal that was quickly followed up by a pair of Roughnecks goals.

Newly-acquired forward Dunbar scored his first goal at the 12:11 mark of the third. That was followed up by goals from Haiden Dickson and Mayea.

The Roughnecks outscored Georgia 3-1 in the third to even it up at six heading into the final frame.

Nolan Byrne opened up the fourth scoring a behind-the-net diving goal to give the Swarm a 7-6 lead and ultimately the game-winning goal.

The Swarm tacked on five goals in the fourth quarter to close it out in Calgary.

 

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