Jon McBride

It had been almost two months since their last victory, but after a 12-game losing streak, including back-to-back overtime losses at home, the Ogden Mustangs have fought their way back into the win column.

The Mustangs (6-19-3) played four games in four days during The Western States Shootout and went 3-1 in those contests.

Ogden opened with a 5-2 win over the Dallas Snipers on Friday, then fell 3-2 to the Arizona Red Hawks on Friday, but bounced back to beat the Long Beach Bombers 5-3 and the Phoenix Knights 7-2 on Sunday and Monday, respectively.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Ogden Mustangs came up short on the road yet again last weekend, dropping three important games to Mountain Conference foe, the Cheyenne Stampede.

The series started off with a bazaar game Friday night. The Stampede were up 4-1 going into the first intermission. Then the Mustangs scored 6 of the next 7 goals to go up 7-5. The Stampede came back to tie it 7-7. At that point Mustangs defenseman Jesse Love was assessed a five-minute major penalty for contact to the head with 4:59 left in the game.

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — The Ogden Mustangs snapped a seven-game losing streak and started off a 12-game road trip with a win against the New Mexico Renegades last Friday.

The Mustangs went on to fall 4-1 on Saturday but claimed a heartstopping 3-2 win over the Renegades on Sunday to capture their first Western States Hockey League series in team history.

On Sunday morning, the Mustangs got a pair of goals in the first period from Kody Rodriguez and Kevin Collins. But after New Mexico battled back to knot the score, Rodriguez's unassisted goal late in the contest proved to be the game-winner.

OGDEN -- The Ogden Mustangs had flashes of brilliance but lacked the energy to finish the job in their three-game series against the San Diego Gulls last weekend at The Ice Sheet.

The Mustangs fell 5-3 on Friday, 4-1 on Saturday and 3-0 on Sunday.

"We just got outworked," said Ogden coach Devin Firl. "They're a great team, and we didn't show up like we needed to. We try to stress that we need to have a complete, 60-minute effort out there. But we haven't been getting that."

SANDY -- Real Salt Lake set a Major League Soccer record Saturday afternoon at Rio Tinto Stadium, beating the Chicago Fire 1-0, and moving RSL's home unbeaten streak to an MLS record 23 games.

OGDEN -- The Ogden Tigers came into Wednesday night's game having alternated wins and losses in their past seven games.