Insurance goal lifts Bruins

An insurance goal by Mark Clifford with 9:17 to play, coupled with a defense that didn’t give up a score in the final nine minutes of a Howe Division matchup against the Patriots, allowed the Bruins to come away with a 6-4 victory at Coast 2 Coast Inline Hockey Center in Huntington Beach.

After the Patriots cut the Bruins lead to 5-4 on a goal by Jonathan Carlson — it was Carlson’s second score of the match — with 14:28 to play, Clifford gave the Bruins some breathing room when he scored off an assist from Jason Saenz to make it 6-4.

The Bruins defense shut down the Patriots the rest of the way.

In addition to his assist, Saenz led all scorers with three goals.

Luke Barrett and Kian Nafison also scored for the Bruins, Clifford also picked up a pair of assists and Savannah Patton had 31 saves.

Like Carlson, Jeremy Corwin also scored twice and added an assist for the Patriots.

Sean Mastro recorded 18 saves.

In other Howe Division action

Hawks 5, Diablos 2

Karson Derego posted three goals and the Hawks never trailed in defeating the Diablos.

The Hawks also received single goals from Tyler Wilford and Alec Lang and both Stuart Urbano and Andrew Schenker had an assist.

Sam Prizler finished with 25 saves. Austin Koss and Dana Everett scored goals, Corey Childers had an assist and Ricky Zatarain picked up 19 saves for the Diablos.

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Rattlers 10, Storm 5

The Rattlers started and finished fast — scoring four goals in the first period and five more in the third — as they skated past the Storm.

Jonah Perez scored three goals and had two assists to pace the Rattlers on offense.

Sean Cullinane scored twice and single goals went to Kyle Kowalski, Weston Bechtold, Logan Bechtold, Blake Yokoyama and Brent Rivera.

Brandon Albertson had two assists and Cullinane and Logan Bechtold each had an assist.

Riley Draghi scored three goals and Michael Kramer and Jake Grothjan each scored once for the Storm.

Matthew Oyakawa and Alec Roberson each had two assists and Kramer and Grothjan each had one assist.

Jadin Press had 20 saves.