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WorSharks Start Summer Vacation A Little Early, Lose 6-2 In Charlotte

The Worcester Sharks were eliminated from the playoffs after Friday night’s loss and played like a team thinking about summer plans as they dropped a 6-2 contest to the Charlotte Checkers Saturday night at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina in front of 11,121 fans. Cory Quirk lead the WorSharks with a goal and an assist. Jamie McGinn had the other goal for Worcester.

Sharkspage didn’t make the trip to The Old North State, and neither did Bill Ballou of the Worcester Telegram and Gazette. The T&G does have a staff report about the game. Jack Horan of The Charlotte Observer, presumably still in St. Paul, has a recap of the game.

Both the WorSharks and Checkers have their sides of the story on their official sites.

GAME NOTES
The Worcester Shuttle made a stop in Charlotte to pick up Benn Ferriero. That left the WorSharks short a forward, unfortunately not a rarity this season, so head coach Roy Sommer went with seven defensemen. Every healthy player available for Worcester played in the game. Sena Acolatse made his pro debut, setting a new team record of 50 different players playing for the WorSharks this season. Carter Hutton got the start between the pipes in the season finale.

The three stars of the game were
1. CHA – 14 Brett Sutter (g,a)
2. CHA – 29 Michal Jordan (g)
3. CHA – 19 Zac Dalpe (g,a)

The Sharkspage player of the game was Cory Quirk.

BOXSCORE
Worcester 0 1 1 – 2
Charlotte 1 3 2 – 6

1st Period-1, Charlotte, Jordan 4 (McNicoll, Graham), 16:49 (PP). Penalties-Boychuk Cha (slashing), 4:11; Petrecki Wor (slashing), 15:27.

2nd Period-2, Charlotte, Sutter 9 (Dalpe), 6:25. 3, Charlotte, Dalpe 23 (Sutter, Boychuk), 10:13. 4, Worcester, McGinn 9 (Davis, Quirk), 18:34. 5, Charlotte, Herauf 4 (Staal, Sanguinetti), 19:44. Penalties-Borer Cha (interference), 11:10; Petrecki Wor (slashing), 13:48.

3rd Period-6, Worcester, Quirk 4 (Irwin, Henderson), 10:56. 7, Charlotte, Pistilli 8 (Nash, Borer), 13:38. 8, Charlotte, Terry 34 (Borer), 15:36 (SH). Penalties-Matsumoto Cha (hooking), 14:17.

Shots on Goal-Worcester 13-3-9-25. Charlotte 12-8-14-34.
Power Play Opportunities-Worcester 0/3; Charlotte 1/2.
Goalies-Worcester, Hutton 11-7-2 (34 shots-28 saves). Charlotte, Goepfert 1-0-0 (25 shots-23 saves).
A-11,121
Referees-David Banfield (44). Linesmen-Paul Carnathan (93), Terry Wicklum (58).