Box Score ST. CHARLES, Mo. – After playing their last four games at home the Davenport D1 hockey team hit the road for their final weekend road series of the season as the traveled to St. Charles, Mo., to face Lindenwood. The Panthers were able to take game of the series 4-3, as they had four different scorers in the game to win their fourth straight game. The Panthers will wrap up the weekend series against Lindenwood on Saturday night at 5 p.m. EST.
 
The Panthers came out strong to start the game as Winston Hofer got the scoring started for Davenport off a feed from Cody Mathieu, while Mason Bohlinger picked up the secondary assist on the goal. Chris Eckler was able to snipe one home after Tyler Ploeg made the cross ice pass to Eckler for the goal as Davenport took a 2-0 lead into the first intermission.
 
In the second period, Lindenwood was able to get on the board with a power play goal to move within one of Davenport, but the Panthers came right back as the Everett Thompson was able to score shorthanded off a pass from Matt Ogden as DU was killing a 5-on-3 penalty. Davenport was able to regain their two goal lead as they went into the locker room.
 
The third period started out as a defensive battle, until the Lions were able to pull within one goal for the second time in the game after Thompson was able to win the draw back to Cody Walsh, who was able to score for the Panthers to push the lead to 4-2. Lindenwood tried to make a comeback after they pulled within one goal for the third time, but the Clayton Brown was able to make some key saves for Davenport down the stretch to hold on to the 4-3 win over Lindenwood.
 
After the game head coach Phil Sweeney talked about his team's performance, "I am very happy with the way we performed defensively in the game. The guys played structured and were willing to block shots. Lindenwood is a good team, but our team speed was the difference and the team played great. We need to get greedy and go for the weekend sweep."
 
The Panthers will be back in action on Saturday night as they finish the weekend series at Lindenwood on Saturday night at 5 p.m.
 
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