The Kelowna Rockets fell 7-3 to the Kamloops Saturday (Feb. 10) splitting a home-at-home series with their rivals.
Kamloops opened the scoring on a goal by Kai Matthew at 6:37 of the first period.
Kelowna then responded with two unanswered goals, by Andrew Cristall (30) at 9:43 and Caden Price (9), on the power play, at 13:31.
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In the second period, the Blazers stormed back with three straight goals from Emmitt Finnie, with two, and Harrison Brunicke, who scored on the power play.
The Rocketssa国际传媒� Luke Schelter opened the scoring in the third period with his 10th of the season at 7:34.
However, it was all Kamloops after that as Finnie added two more for a four-goal night and Matthew potted his second of the game for a 7-3 Blazers win.
Kamloops out-shot the Rockets 41-29 and both teams were one for two on the power play.
This was the sixth of eight meetings between the teams with Kamloops leading 3-2-1-0.
The Rocketssa国际传媒� record is now 24-25-3-0 and are seventh in the Western Conference.
Kelowna will host the Spokane Chiefs on Tuesday, Feb. 13 at Prospera Place at 7:05 pm.
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