Barons grab 2-1 edge in best-of-five series

The series resumes tonight at 7 at The Ice Zone.
PARMA -- Jeremy Tejchma scored with 12.3 seconds remaining in the third period to give the Cleveland Barons a 3-2 win over the Mahoning Valley Phantoms in Game 3 of their North American Hockey League playoff series.
The win gave the Barons a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five divisional semifinal series, which resumes tonight at 7 at The Ice Zone.
Tomas Petruska drew two Phantoms as he approached the net with the puck.
The puck was pokechecked from him in front, where Tejchma trailed and snapped a wrist shot from the right post past the right blocker of goaltender Ryan Zapolski.
Dennis Urban scored twice in the final period to rally the Phantoms. He scored at 3:50 on a five-on-three power play, taking a pass from John Kivisto in the slot and ripping a wrister over the left shoulder of Barons goaltender Bobby Jarosz and off the crossbar to pull Mahoning Valley to within 2-1.
Urban tied it with a spectacular goal.
He pinched in on the right point and was tripped on the goal line. Marc Menzione, on the left goal line, played the puck hard off the board to Urban, who somehow stopped the puck on his knees and with his stick. He recovered his balance and sent a shot that bounced off Jarosz's left leg tie the score at 2:28.
Moments before Urban's game-tying goal, Zapolski kept the Phantoms in the game by robbing Ryan Ward point blank on a four-on-one.
Early lead
Cleveland scored twice in the first period. Nick Kosinski gave the Barons their first goal at the 6:56 mark, then Carter Camper scored with 2:40 remaining to make it 2-0.
The Phantoms had numerous second chances off initial shots, but failed to convert. On their second power play, Drew Satterley barely missed a rebound on the right side of the net before Jarosz snagged the loose puck off the ice.
Seconds later, Milan Drevenak shot the puck high over an open net on the same side after Jarosz, again, blocked the initial shot.
The Barons outshot the Phantoms 34-31. Jarosz finished with 29 saves, while Zapolski stopped 31 shots.