Reading Royals on the road

Reading Royals 6, Pensacola Ice Pilots 3

   Game recap: Reading ended its longest road trip of the season on a good note with an ECHL win over Pensacola at the Pensacola Civic Center.
  

 The Royals finished the eight-game road trip at 6-1-1.
  

 The Royals took an early 1-0 lead when Judd Medak scored his third short-handed goal of the season at 2:09.
 

  The Ice Pilots appeared to tie it a few minutes later when a wrister from the point by Ryan Stokes beat goalie Barry Brust, but the goal was disallowed when it was ruled that Pensacola’s Ryan Vince was in the crease.
 

  Larry Courville scored off a feed from Cail MacLean to give Reading a 2-0 lead at 11:53 of the first period.
 

  The Royals struck quickly in the second when Medak fed Preston Mizzi for a goal to make it 3-0 just 55 seconds in.
 

  Medak scored on the power play nine minutes later to put Reading up 4-0. MacLean scored at 12:32 to give the Royals a 5-0 lead.
 

  Pensacola got on the board 2:20 later on a goal by Ryan O’Keefe. The Ice Pilots scored twice in the third period to make it 5-3, but Mizzi put it away with a late empty-net goal.
   

Medak and Graig Mischler each finished with three points.
   

Mischler was called for a spearing major and a game misconduct in the second period.
  

 Notable: The Royals have had at least one player score two goals in six consecutive games. . . . Royals defenseman Ian Turner had his first multiple-point game. . . . Reading leads the league with eight shorthanded goals.. . . First meeting ever between the teams.
 

Three stars: 1. Judd Medak, Royals; 2. Graig Mischler, Royals; 3. Ian Turner, Royals.
  

 Up next: The Royals return home Friday night to face the Bakersfield Condors at 7:05 p.m.