It was a busy night on the scoreboard at Port Credit Arena, but the Wellington Dukes ended up coming out on the wrong end of a 6-4 scoreline versus the Mississauga Chargers on Wednesday night.
The unit of Zach Mascard, Landon Marleau and Jayden Levesque combined for nine points as the Dukes lost leads of 3-1 and 4-2 in the contest as the Chargers rattled off four unanswered goals.
That line wasted little time getting on the board first for the Dukes, with Mascard burying a rebound just 52 seconds into the game.
Mississauga capitalized eight seconds into a powerplay on a marker from Zachary Pereira, but the Dukes managed to hit back on a man advantage of their own at 9:15.
Sammy Longo worked to the front of the Charger cage and jammed a Maclean Chisholm feed through Chargers starter Lukas Boudreau.
Freshly returned from the BCHL, Levesque upped the lead to 3-1 with a clean snapshot upstairs on the blocker-side to chase Boudreau from the net in favour of James Meredith.
Mississauga cut the deficit back to one on a scrambly goal from Frank Lecce late in the period, but Marleau restored the two-goal lead at the 3:07 mark of the second by hammering home a slip pass from Mascard in close on Meredith for his third of the season
The game’s tides shifted at that point, with the Chargers scoring twice in 13 seconds courtesy of Robert Knight and Luca Morano to even the score and Meredith settling things down in the Mississauga crease.
Mississauga’s momentum continued in the third with an early strike from Milo Tian and a breakaway insurance finisher from Alexander Loschiavo.
Dryden Riley made 40 saves in the losing cause as the Dukes dropped to 2-1 on the young OJHL season.
The group returns home Friday night at 7:30 p.m. versus the Newmarket Hurricanes.
