Titans suffer road loss to Rattlers | Titans de témiscaming

The Titans were playing their sixth road game in 9 days against the Bradford Rattlers on Sunday evening. In a back and forth battle that had four lead changes, it was the Rattlers (19-8) that prevailed 4-3. The Titans bench was down by four players, Hampus Fagrell and Antoine Desrochers who were on the injured list and Guillaume Taupier and Nico Wilton were serving suspensions. Despite being short, the Titans stayed with the Rattlers the entire game. After a scoreless first period both teams combined for all the scoring in the second period. Titans goals came from Gustav Rollfelt on a power play, Ryder Murray and Scott Sovinsky had the others. Murray chipped in also with one assist while Larri Vartiainen had 2 helpers. Jason Goes faced 33 shots and took the loss. Both teams combined for a total 59 minutes in penalties which slowed down the game considerably. The officials were calling a very tight game and let nothing go by. The Titans will now finally get to play a couple of home games this week. A rare Thursday night game against the Almaguin Spartans (14-7-2) and then Saturday night, it will be the first place New Tecumseth Civics (25-2), both games start at 8pm.