Wichita vs. Allen, January 31, 2020

WICHITA, Kan. (Jan. 31) - Wichita returned home on Friday night for the first time in two and a half weeks and fell to rival, Allen, by the final of 6-3 at INTRUST Bank Arena.

Peter Crinella, Spencer Dorowicz and Patrik Parkkonen scored in the losing effort.

After a scoreless first, Dorowicz put the Thunder on the board two minutes into the second. He fired a wrist shot near the right circle past Jake Paterson to make it 1-0. Allen answered at 10:33 when Les Lancaster received a pass from Olivier Archambault and beat Wells to the top corner. Jared VanWormer flipped a shot over the glove of Wells at 17:49 to make it a 2-1 Allen lead.

Parkkonen knotted the game just three seconds into a power play with a slap shot from the top of the far circle at 4:36 in the final frame. The Americans scored under a minute later. Wells stopped a Brett Pollock wrist shot, but the puck squirted loose and Alex Breton buried it.

Archambault made it 4-2, firing a shot that beat Wells at 11:51 in the third. Wichita cut it to 4-3 when Crinella found a pass from Fabrizio Ricci in front of the net and he buried it. Allen benefited from a penalty on Jacob Graves after the play and that gave the Americans another chance on the man advantage. Tyler Sheehy scored 20 seconds later to push the Allen lead to 5-3. Sheehy added an empty-net goal late in the period to give Allen a 6-3 victory.

Parkkonen collected his fourth goal of the season. Crinella and Dorowicz both recorded their 12th markers of the year.