The Komets returned to action on Wednesday to host Iowa at the Coliseum.
In the first period, Harrison Rees, playing in his first game in over a month, set up Austin Magera for his 25th tally of the season at 3:34 to put the Komets up 1-0. The Komets followed with a goal from Josh Groll and Mathew Brown to take a 3-0 lead with just under 10 minutes remaining in the period.
The only score of the second period went to Jayden Gubbe to make it a 4-0 with an assist coming from Matt Copponi to extend his points streak to five games at 18:21.
In the third period, Iowa’s Jonny Sorenson scored short-handed on a breakaway to put the Heartlanders on the board at :57 while Elliot Desnoyers cut the lead in half with an unassisted tally at 3:59. Late in the period, with goaltender Riley Mercer on the bench for the extra Trevor Janicke put the puck into the empty net to make the final score 5-2.
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