(GREENVILLE, S.C.) – Kenta Isogai’s second of his two-point night forced overtime with 1:58 to play, and Josh Atkinson’s insane assist streak extended to 11 consecutive games, but the Savannah Ghost Pirates survived a 54-shot onslaught to capture the second point up for grabs in overtime by a 4-3 final over the Greenville Swamp Rabbits on Sunday afternoon.
The Ghost Pirates jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, with further hardship inflicted on the Swamp Rabbits towards the end of the first frame. With 5:55 to play, Matt Koopman scooped up a net-front rebound from Liam Walsh and pushed it past Swamp Rabbits net-minder Mattias Sholl, giving the Ghost Pirates a 1-0 lead (Walsh and Tristan Amonte assisted). Moments later, Sholl stopped a breakaway with two magnificent saves, but was injured on the sequence and taken out of the game, prompting Pierce Charleson, who started two of the previous three games in this four-in-five stretch to enter in relief. Shortly after, Bryce Brodzinski went on a breakaway that was initially denied by Charleson, but picked up his own rebound to push Savannah to a 2-0 lead with less than a minute to play in the period (Amonte assisted).
The Swamp Rabbits eventually found some life in the second, halving the deficit over the midway point of the game With 7:57 to go, Hudson Schandor won a faceoff to Tim Lovell, who fired a shot on net that was denied by Ghost Pirates goalie Vinnie Purpura. Schandor picked up the rebound and five-holed Purpura to cut the deficit to 2-1…