Cleveland Triumphs to Lead Series, 2-0
Michael King celebrated his 28th birthday by scoring three goals as the Cleveland Crunch beat the Kansas City Comets 7-5 Saturday night and took a 2-0 lead in the MSL’s Eastern Division best-of-seven playoffs.
The series shifts to Kansas City for Game 3 Wednesday.
King scored the game’s first two goals 44 seconds apart in the first period. Kansas City’s David Doyle responded with a power-play goal to make it 2-1 at the end of the first quarter.
Tony Glavin scored the only goal of the second period, evening the score 2-2 at halftime.
Cleveland’s Hector Marinaro scored a power play goal in the third quarter and Zorin Karic also scored to put Cleveland ahead 4-2. The Comets cut the margin to one on Doug Neely’s first postseason goal at 7:30.
Cleveland ended the rally with goals by Ali Kazemani, Michael Sweeney and King’s final score for a 7-3 lead at the end of three quarters.
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