| Last updated at 1:13 AM on 28/11/09 |
Streak hits four games for Rocket 
P.E.I. club beats Lewiston for its second win on its current three-game road trip
The Guardian
LEWISTON, Me. — The P.E.I. Rocket can cap off a perfect three-game road trip tonight.
The Rocket will visit the Lewiston Maineiacs in the second of back-to-back games after winning 6-4 Friday night in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action.
The Rocket also won 4-1 in Victoriaville on Wednesday.
The P.E.I. club has won five of its last six games, including four straight.
Before 2,087 fans at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee, Samson Mahbod (1-2), Jarrad Struthers (1-1), Joel Champagne (1-1), Chris Doyle (1-1), Eric Bouchard and Benjamin Casavant scored for the Rocket (15-9-1-2).
Pierre-Olivier Morin (1-1), Francis Beauvillier, Stefan Fournier and Etienne Brodeur countered for Lewiston (10-15-0-1).
The teams were tied 1-1 after the first period and the Rocket led 4-3 following 40 minutes.
All of the scoring in the middle frame came within just over four minutes.
Bouchard put P.E.I. up 2-1 with unassisted marker at 12:07 and Casavant made it 3-1 31 seconds later.
Beauvillier at 13:46 and Brodeur at 15:34 replied for the Maineiacs.
Doyle completed the scoring in the period with his 11th of the season at 16:12.
Winning goaltender Marco Cousineau made 33 saves and Lewiston outshot P.E.I. 37-26.
Cousineau stopped Brodeur on a penalty shot at 13:38 of the third.
The next home game for the Rocket is Wednesday at 7 p.m. against Saint John.
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