OMAHA, Neb. (KSNB) - Down 3-1, the Tri-City Storm used Brecken Smith and Paul Bloomer third period goals to even the game, eventually defeating the Omaha Lancers 4-3 in a shootout on Wednesday night at Liberty First Credit Union Arena.

Tri-City (9-15-4, 22 pts) snapped its season-long six-game losing streak. Omaha (6-19-3, 15 pts) grew its point streak to four games.

The Storm made it a 3-2 contest on Smith’s tally 10:26 into the third. On a beautiful passing play, Gairin Michalski set up Mason Jenson with a feed in front of the Lancer net. Jenson then sent the puck to Smith, who finished a rapid one-touch backdoor shot past Omaha netminder Nils Maurins. It was the Miami commit’s seventh goal of the year.

About five minutes later, as Tri-City worked on the power play, Bloomer redirected

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