Thursday, November 21, 2002

Mighty Ducks 2, Grand Rapids 2



GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.- Mark Popovic scored his first professional goal and added an assist as the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks skated to a 2-2 tie with the Grand Rapids Griffins Wednesday.

Brendan Yarema also scored for Cincinnati, which is winless in its last four road games (0-2-2-0) and last three overall (0-1-1-1).

Jean-Francois Damphousse made 35 saves for the Ducks. He stopped all four shots he faced in the third period and seven in overtime.

Cincinnati plays the second game of a four-game road trip Friday at Lowell.

Cincinnati110-2
Grand Rapids110-2
First period: 1. Gra, King 6 (Roest, Adams), 12:58. 2. Cin, Yarema 2

(Popovic, Martensson), 14:21. Second period: 3. Cin, Popovic 1 (O'Sullivan, Valicevic), 1:44 (ppg). 4. Gra, Collins 4 (Roest, King), 13:14 (ppg). Third period: No scoring.