REIGN FINAL – ONT (5), TEX (3) – Lord, Connors

The Ontario Reign defeated the Texas Stars 5-3 on Friday night at the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park. Martin Chromiak scored the go-ahead goal with 4:24 remaining in regulation before adding an empty-netter to secure the victory and a three-point night. Goaltender Erik Portillo stopped 20 of 23 shots to earn the win for Ontario, which improved its record to 5-2-0-0.

Texas had opened the scoring through Michael Sgarbossa, but Ontario responded with second-period goals from Koehn Ziemmer, Kirill Kirsanov, and Kenny Connors. After Sgarbossa tied the game 3-3 in the third period with his second goal of the night, Chromiak sealed the win, while Texas goaltender Arno Tiefensee took the loss with 22 saves.