Wednesday's box score

LINCOLN, NE – Caeden Herrington contributed two goals and Willam Prowse earned his first shutout of the season as the Lincoln Stars beat the Tri-City Storm 5-0 on Wednesday night inside the Ice Box. 

Lincoln (15-6-0, 30 pts) has won five of its past six games. Despite outshooting the Stars 35-30 in the contest, Tri-City (9-10-3, 21 pts) snapped its five-game road winning streak. 

The Stars began the night with a power play goal 7:53 into the opening period. Late into a Carson Pilgrim minor, Lincoln rushed out of their own end. Daniel Shlaine fed the puck ahead to Herrington, who skated near the right point of the Tri-City zone. The Manchester, Vermont native quickly snapped a shot past Storm goaltender Erick Roest's left shoulder for his sixth goal of the season. Herrington tallied five of his first six goals on the power play this year. 

Lincoln remained with the lead after twenty minutes. 

The Stars again found the back of the net with an even strength tally at the 15:55 mark of the second period. During a Lincoln offensive zone possession, Michael Sandruck gathered the puck near the left wing faceoff dot. The Cornell commit quickly released a shot that beat Roest to double the Stars lead. 

Tri-City was allotted a trio of two-minute power play attempts in the middle frame. Despite quality scoring chances on each, the Storm failed to capitalize on the man advantage.  

Lincoln made it a 3-0 contest just over 6 minutes into the third. After a brief board battle on the left wing of the Tri-City zone, the puck went to Shlaine. The Russia native quickly fed an open Drew DellaSalla in front of the Tri-City net, who stuffed the puck past Roest for his second tally of the year. 

Down by three with four minutes remaining, the Storm pulled Roest for an empty net. Lefty Markonidis found the vacant Tri-City cage 16:49 into the frame. After getting a feed on the left wing of neutral ice, Markonidis marched into the Storm zone, then shot the puck home. 

Tri-City again pulled Roest down by four with around three minutes left. Herrington capped off the scoring with 50 seconds remaining after finding the Storm cage from Lincoln's zone. The Vermont commit recorded his first career two-goal game. 

The Storm were shut out for the second time this season and first since November 1, when Tri-City dropped a 1-0 game in overtime at Viaero Center against Omaha. 

Roest finished Wednesday with 25 saves on the 28 shots he faced. 

Up next: Tri-City continues its road trip on Friday and Saturday at Green Bay. Both contests inside Resch Center begin at 7:05 pm CT. The games will be broadcast on FloHockey and Storm Radio.