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Oct. 29, 2002

The Fresno Falcons had four players with multipoint games and outlasted the San Diego Gulls, 6-4, Tuesday night, before 4,309 at Selland Arena. The Gulls are now winless in their last five games.

Offensive chances were kept to minimum through most of the first period until teams traded goals late in the frame. Mike Garrow put the Gulls (3-4-1) up 1-0 with a power-play goal at 17:23. Garrow took a feed from Dean Tiltgen and one-timed a blast by Fresno goaltender Terry Friesen. Both Tiltgen and R.J. Enga recorded the assists on Garrow's fourth goal. It only took the Falcons (4-1-0) 22 seconds to tie the game, however, as Austin DeLuis picked up his second goal, redirecting a pass from Alex Todd.

Fresno scored two quick goals early in the second period to take a 3-1 lead. Colin Embley notched his second goal at 1:18 on a nice setup by Jason Weaver. Then a little more than three minutes later, Weaver struck with a short-handed tally. Drew Schoneck and Joe Fredrick assisted on Weaver's third goal.

San Diego drew to within one at 6:55 of the middle stanza on Trevor Sherban's second goal. A scrum developed in front of Friesen and, after a few whacks, Sherban finally banged home the goal. The helpers were given to newcomer Ryan Fultz and Mark Pederson. But just when the Gulls thought to be back in the game, the Falcons lit the lamp again, regaining their two-goal cushion. Frederick, positioned right in front of Koenig, deflected Todd's shot from the blue line and into the net at 16:13. Embley registered the other assist on Fredericks's second marker.

The Blue and Orange continued to fight back and got rewarded with an early third period goal. Tiltgen stuffed in his first goal in five games off setup passes by Sandro Sbrocca and David Neale at 2:16. But Fresno, again, quickly answered with a power-play goal 2:31 later. Kris Porter netted his team-leading fifth goal from Mike Mathers and Frederick.

Tiltgen cut the lead to one again with his second goal of the night – fifth of the season – one-timing a pass from Sylvain Deschatelets at 8:16. Sherban also assisted on San Diego's second power-play goal of the game. That would be as close as the Gulls would get however as Embley's empty net goal with 20 seconds left capped Fresno's 6-4 victory.

Notepad
The Gulls' 3-4-1 start is the worst in franchise history… Their longest winless streak is seven games, attained in 1999-00… Even with two power-play goals tonight, San Diego is 3 for its last 40 with the man advantage… The Gulls had two goals disallowed tonight… Both Embley and Frederick finished with three points… Deschatelets was sent down from the American Hockey League's Hershey Bears. He made his Gulls season debut tonight… Clint Cabana remains on injured reserve… Marc Busenburg and Rob Voltera remain in Hershey…

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