Syracuse, NY (March 17, 2012) – J.F. Jacques scored twice to help lift the Crunch over the Adirondack Phantoms by the score of 5-2 tonight at the War Memorial Arena.

Five Crunch players had multi-point games and the Crunch improved their record to 29-27-4-4.

The Phantoms got on the board first with a power-play goal, capitalizing on a Josh Brittain penalty. Denis Hamel deflected a  Blake Kessel shot past Crunch netminder Iiro Tarkki for the game's first score with eight minutes to play in the first period.

Jacques tied the game with his 18^th goal of the season with 4:53 remaining in the first frame. Jacques potted the goal by taking advantage of Phantoms goaltender Michael Leighton misplaying the puck after a Patrick Maroon shot.

The Crunch took a 2-1 lead early in the middle session with a five-on-three power-play goal by Mathieu Carle. With Adirondack's Matthew Ford and Marc-Andre Bourdon in the penalty box, Carle blasted a shot from the right circle past Leighton at the 2:52 mark of the second period.

With 3:10 remaining in the second stanza Phantoms defenseman Bourdon scored a power-play goal to tie the game 2-2.

Jacques scored his second goal of the game to give the Crunch a 3-2 lead with just 33.5 seconds in the second period. Jacques one-timed the puck off a pass from Peter Holland, into a wide open net.

The Crunch added an empty net  power-play goal from Riley Holzapfel with 45 seconds to play and a power-play goal from Troy Bodie with 11 seconds remaining for the final score of 5-2.

Crunchables:  Peter Holland has 15 points in his last 10 games…With 53 points Holland has the highest rookie point total since Derrick Brassard in 2007-08…The Crunch improve to 7-22-3-0 when allowing the first goal…The Crunch have now won a season-high five consecutive games at home…Iiro Tarkki has won seven straight games.