Weekend Update: Thunder, Lightning & Rochester Thunder
The Minnesota Lightning continued their winning ways last Thursday evening as they played a home game at the National Sports Center against the Fort Wayne Fever and defeated them 5-1.
Scoring Summery: Kallman (Hans) 4 FW: Ward 13 MIN: Smith 17 MIN: Smith (Kallman) 43 MIN: Redberg (Malone-Polvone) 44 MIN: Solie 52. Minnesota out shot the Fever 14-4.
The Rochester Thunder played last years PDL champions, the Thunder Bay Chill not once but twice this weekend in Rochester MN. Both games saw the Thunder on the losing end.
Game one was played Friday evening with a 3-2 score. Scoring Summary: TB: Fernandes 11 ROC: Bundrey (Peterson) 15 TB: Own goal 27 TB: Fernandes 76 ROC: Heath-Preston (Bonilla) 81
The Thunder and the Chill had to regroup and play 24 hours later with a different score but the same results, a loss for the new Rochester Thunder team. The score in this match was 3-1. The stats were still not reported to USL.com as of Monday evening.
The Minnesota Thunder went on the road after a month of games at home. The Thunder were outshot but the Rhinos but still had a several good chances. One of them being a controversial call back of a goal scored in injury time by Minnesota. The linesman said Minnesota was offside on the play. Minnesota came away with a 0-0 draw and 1 point for the Rhinos.
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The injury time goal did look offside. A point on the road is typically an unqualified good thing, but not so much when the home stand went about as poorly it could have.