ROCHESTER - Take away the first period and the Spaulding High School hockey team played itself a pretty darn good game.

Yeah, but there are no takeaways. The Red Raiders surrendered six special-teams goals to Bow Saturday in Division II. The end result was a 7-3 loss.

The 6-1 Falcons scored six goals in the first period. Four of those were on the power play. They also added a short-handed tally, one of two.

Spaulding dropped its third straight and is now 2-3.

"We knew how good their power play was and we just couldn't stop them," said Spaulding coach Jamie Ferullo. "We had some mental mistakes. We're a young team. It's going to happen. It's a high intensity game against a good team. The kids want to do well. Sometimes their emotions get the best of them."

The Red Raiders struck first in each period. Adam Enscoe put them up 1-0 in the first period at 4:27, sliding a shot under Bow goalie Nate Carrier's stick.

It was a short-lived advantage.

Spaulding's Shaun Cormier took a two-minute minor for cross checking at the five-minute mark, and 13 seconds into the power play the Falcons knotted up the score on a goal by Alex Killion.

Bow scored six goals in eight and half minutes to go up 6-1.

Colin Tracy and Killion followed with power-play goals to make it 3-1. Doug Champagne scored at even strength at 10:21 for a 4-1 lead.

Chris Mead followed with the fourth power-play strike and Dom Biron closed out the scoring in the period when she scored a shorty, taking a loose puck in alone on goalie Ben Toussaint after a Red Raider defenseman fell down with the puck.

"That's what happens when you play a little bit over the edge," said Bow coach Tim Walsh. "We made them pay for it. When you've got guys who can finish around the net - it's not just Champagne. Any game you take a lot of penalties, it's hard to win."

Killiion ended with two goals for Bow, while Tracy added a goal and three assists, and Mead had a goal and two helpers.

Kerry Winfrey scored Spaulding's second goal at 5:20 of the second from Cormier to make it 6-2.

Spaulding defenseman Connor Breeze netted his team's third goal 20 seconds into the final period with a shot from the right point. Winfrey and Garrett Langis were awarded assists.

Toussiant had 10 saves for the Red Raiders, while Brenden Stanley, who came in late in the first period, added 10 of his own.

"The guys didn't give up," Ferullo said. "They kept battling and didn't quit after being down 6-1 after the first period. They didn't quit. (Bow's) a really good team, well coached with a lot of older players. I was proud with that effort. We didn't give up."

Carrier stopped nine shots for Bow in two periods. Jason Howe played the third period and turned aside six of seven shots.

Spaulding was without all-state junior defenseman Ashton Langis, out with an upper-body injury for the second straight game. Coach Ferullo said his status is up in the air.

"That doesn't help," said Ferullo of Langis' absence. "But the kids have to stay positive. Ashton is a captain on this team and a lot of things run through him. It's an adjustment period learning to play without him. The kids have done pretty well so far. Hopefully we can get him back and he'll have an impact."

Spaulding plays Winnacunnet Wednesday at 4 p.m. at The Rinks at Exeter.

Bow 96-1) 6 1 0 - 7

Spaulding (2-3) 1 1 1 - 3

Scoring: First period: S-Enscoe (Winfrey) 4:27; B-Killion (Tracy Tobeler) 5:11, pp; B-Tracy (Mead) 8;56, pp; B-Killion (Tracy) 9:48, pp; B-Champagne (Scarinza, Mead) 10:21; B-Mead (Tracy, Beaudette) 10:48, pp; Biron (un.) 13:46, sh.

Second period: S-Winfrey (Cormier) 5:20; B-Beaudette (Ulrich) 13:27, sh. Third period: S-Breezae (Winfrey, Langis) :20.

Goalies: Bow-Carrier (11 shots, 9 saves), Howe (7, 6); Spaulding-Toussaint (16, 10), Stanley (11,10).