SENATORS IN SUNDAY AT 5:00 P.M.

March 28, 2010

HERSHEY concludes a three home game weekend Sunday, as the Binghamton Senators come to town for the final time in 2009-10. Face-off is at 5:00 p.m., and the game is sold out. Keith Aucoin recorded three assists and was named the game’s number one star as the BEARS defeated the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins 4-2 Saturday. Zach Miskovic, Alexandre Giroux, Karl Alzner and Andrew Joudrey each scored goals in the win, HERSHEY’S 10th this season in 12 tries against the Penguins. Goaltender Jason Bacashihua won his 16th game of the season against two regulation defeats. The 10 wins represents the most wins the BEARS have ever recorded against the Penguins in a single season. Binghamton still has a faint pulse in chasing a 2010 Calder Cup playoff spot. The Senators begin play Sunday eight points out of a playoff spot with a game in hand on the Bridgeport Sound Tigers (Atlantic Division crossover) and nine points behind the third place Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. The hope for the Senators lies in the fact that the team has three head-to-head meetings left with the Penguins, including the last two games of the regular season April 10-11. The Senators have won seven of its last 10 heading into Sunday’s game to stay relevant in the East Division race with two weeks left in the regular season. Binghamton is coached by former BEARS forward Don Nachbaur. With two weeks remaining in the 2009-10 regular season, nine other games will be played around the AHL on Sunday. The Toronto Marlies, on the outside looking in with two weeks to go in the North Division race, play the Rochester Americans at Blue Cross Arena, while the Albany River Rats take on the Springfield Falcons at Mass Mutual Center. The Worcester Sharks provide the opposition Sunday at Mohegan Sun Arena against the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, Texas travels to Chicago to play the Wolves, and Bridgeport tries to hold onto the East Division crossover playoff spot it currently holds, playing at Lowell against the Devils. Houston is on the road Sunday in Peoria to play the Rivermen at Carver Arena, Hartford is at Portland to tackle the Pirates at the Cumberland County Civic Center, and Lake Erie plays the second of a two-game set in San Antonio against the Rampage. Manchester, currently the third place team in the Atlantic Division, heads to Providence to play the Bruins. Sunday’s game can be heard via the BEARS Radio Network (100.1 FM and www.Sportsjuice.com) beginning at 4:40 p.m. John Walton, Ed Coffey and Jim Jones have the call from Giant Center.