Monsters hold off Belleville 6-5

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -The Cleveland Monsters defeated Belleville 6-5 on Friday night at Rocket Arena to improve to 21-14-5-1. They are currently in fifth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.

Corson Ceulemans started the game with a goal at 2:54, just part of a three goal uprising in that period. Jack Williams and Caleb MacDonald would add goals to make it 3-1 Cleveland after one.

Arthur Kaliyev scored for the Senators at 4:27 of the second period, but Justin Pearson notched a tally at 7:28, followed quickly by an Owen Sillinger goal and it was 5-2 Monsters. Right before the second intermission Oskar Pettersson scored for the Senators making it a 5-3 contest.

The third was also active, Belleville scored twice more, but a Brendan Gaunce tally at 9:59 would prove to be the difference and the Monsters held on for a final 6-5 win.

Cleveland’s Ivan Fedotov stopped 23 shots for the win.