Fri., Feb. 24, 2012

Jon DiSalvatore scored his team-leading 19th goal of the season and Kris Fredheim had his first goal of the season for the Houston Aeros in a 3-2 loss to the Texas Stars Friday at the Cedar Park Center.

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AEROS POSTGAME REPORT
FEB. 24: TEX 3, HOU 2

CEDAR PARK, Tex. ---  Jon DiSalvatore scored his team-leading 19th goal of the season and Kris Fredheim had his first goal of the season for the Houston Aeros in a 3-2 loss to the Texas Stars Friday at the Cedar Park Center.

Darcy Kuemper made 30 saves and Justin Fontaine had two assists for the Aeros, who are now 25-17-3-9.

DiSalvatore scored a power play goal at 12:18 in the third to get the Aeros within 3-2.

Fredheim scored a power play goal at 8:06 in the second period to cut the Stars' lead to 2-1 before Francis Wathier scored a power play goal at 4:58 in the third to put Texas up 3-1.

Scott Glennie scored at 11:23 of the first period to make it 1-0, and Angelo Esposito scored a power play goal at 1:05 in the second to give Texas a 2-0 lead.

Houston outshot the Stars 41-33, but Tyler Beskorowany made 39 saves for Texas.

The Aeros continue their franchise-record 11-game road trip at the Texas Stars at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Cedar Park Center. The team returns home March 10 against Grand Rapids at 7:35 p.m. at Toyota Center.

BOMB DROPPINGS
Kris Fredheim scored his first goal of the season and first since January 9, 2011 against San Antonio... Justin Fontaine has points in four straight games (1-6=7) and points in six of his last eight games (1-9=10)... Fontaine has three two-point games in his last four games and four two-point games in his last eight games... Fontaine has eight two-point games this season... Chay Genoway has an assist in each of the last three games (0-3=3)... Jon DiSalvatore has four goals in the last three games... DiSalvatore has points in six of the last seven games (5-2=7) and 11 of the last 13 games (7-5=12)... Kris Foucault has assists in two of the last three games and points in four of the last five games (2-3=5) and six of the last eight games (3-4=7).

NEXT GAME
Saturday at Texas (7 p.m.)

RECORDS
HOU: 25-17-3-9
TEX: 24-26-2-2

GOAL SCORERS
HOU: Fredheim, DiSalvatore
TEX: Glennie, Esposito, Wathier

AEROS STARTERS
F – DiSalvatore, Taffe, McMillan
D – Bagnall, Genoway
G – Kuemper

AEROS SCRATCHES
Penner, Mignardi, Almond, Fritsch

DECIDING GOAL
Wathier (4:58, 3rd)

POWER PLAYS
HOU: 2/7
TEX: 2/5

GOALIES
HOU: Kuemper (30/33)
TEX: Beskorowany (39/41)