Sat., April 14, 2012

Jeff Taffe and Kris Foucault each had a goal and an assist to lead the Houston Aeros in a 5-3 win over the San Antonio Rampage Saturday night at the Toyota Center in front of a sellout crowd of 9,006.

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AEROS POSTGAME REPORT
APRIL 14: HOU 5, SA 3

HOUSTON ---  Jeff Taffe and Kris Foucault each had a goal and an assist to lead the Houston Aeros in a 5-3 win over the San Antonio Rampage Saturday night at the Toyota Center in front of a sellout crowd of 9,006.

Joel Broda, Chad Rau and Justin Fontaine also scored for the Aeros and Chay Genoway dished out two assists for Houston, which improves to 34-25-5-11 and 84 points and is a point out of the eighth playoff spot in the AHL's Western Conference. Matt Hackett finished with 19 saves.

Taffe scored a power play goal at 22 seconds into the second period to put Houston up 1-0, and Joel Broda extended the lead to 2-0 at 2:50 in the second.

Foucault scored 29 seconds later to make it 3-0, and Rau upped the lead to 4-0 at 8:01 in the second with a power play goal.

San Antonio cut the lead to 4-1 with a goal by Bracken Kearns at 19:30 in the second, and Greg Rallo scored twice in the third to make it 4-3.

Fontaine, however, sealed the win with an empty net power play goal at 19:09 in the third period to make it 5-3.

The Aeros end the regular season Sunday against the Texas Stars at 5:05 p.m. at Toyota Center.

BOMB DROPPINGS
Jeff Taffe scored his first goal since March 25... Taffe recorded his second assist in four games... Taffe had his first two-point game since March 29 against Lake Erie and has 15 multi-point games this season... Jon DiSalvatore has points in three of the last four games (2-2=4)... Chay Genoway has assists in four of the last five games and points in five of the last seven games (1-5=6)... Genoway record his first two-point game since March 13 against Abbotsford and has five two-point games this season... Joel Broda scored his second goal in the last five games... David McIntyre has assists in two of the last four games... Kris Foucault scored his first goal since March 10 against Grand Rapids and dished out his first assist since March 23 at Rockford... Foucault had his first two-point game since February 10 at Grand Rapids and his fifth two-poing games this season... Chad Rau has goals in two of the last four games and three of the last six games... Nick Palmieri has assists in two of the last three games and points in five of the last seven games (3-3=6)... Justin Fontaine scored his first goal since March 16 against Rockford... Fontaine has points in five of his last seven games (1-5=6)... Drew Bagnall has assists in three of the last five games and four of the last seven games... Houston's four goals in the second period are the most in a single period the Aeros have scored this year.

NEXT GAME
Sunday vs. Texas (5:05 p.m. CDT)

RECORDS
HOU: 34-25-5-11
SA: 40-30-3-2

GOAL SCORERS
HOU: Taffe, Broda, Foucault, Rau, Fontaine
SA: Kearns, Rallo(2)

AEROS STARTERS
F – Almond, Bulmer, Palmieri
D – Prosser, Cuma
G – Hackett

AEROS SCRATCHES
Olson, Penner, Scandella, Medvec, Mignardi, Lorenz, Kampfer, Palmer, Jobke, Clackson Caron, Kuemper

DECIDING GOAL
Rau (8:01, 2nd)

POWER PLAYS
HOU: 3/4
SA: 0/4

GOALIES
HOU: Hackett (19/22)
SA: Markstrom  (15/18); Dov Grumet-Morris (7/8)