SIOUX FALLS -- There were a lot of crazy hockey games between the Sioux City Musketeeers and the Sioux Falls Stampede a year ago.

Saturday night's United States Hockey League game showed that the trend will continue this season.

Sioux Falls scored three unanswered goals in the third period to take a 7-3 win over Coach Luke Strand's squad at the Sioux Falls Arena. Matt Bailey, the Stampede's leading scorer this season with 11 points (6 goals, 5 assists), recorded two goals and an assist for a 6-1-2 squad that remained in second place in the USHL West Division with 14 points, two behind Omaha (8-1), which was idle.

Sioux City (3-6), which entered the game as the league's lowest-scoring team, was coming off a 3-0 loss on Friday night to Green Bay at the Tyson Events Center. In that contest, the Musketeers set a league record for the fewest shots taken in a game, getting only 11 shots against Gamblers goaltender Steve Summerhays.

Sioux City had 12 shots in the second period alone and was outshot by just a 28-24 count.

Sioux City didn't go up against Sioux Falls goalie Lino Chimienti, who has a sparkling 4-0 record with a 1.50 goals-against average. Clay Witt, the winning goaltender in a 3-1 decision at the Tyson Events Center on Oct. 10, saw his GAA slip to a still-respectable 2.52, even after the damage that the Musketeers did in the second period.

Adam Schmidt became the second Musketeer this season to get two goals in a game. Schmidt joined Clinton Bourbonais, who tallied two goals in a 4-2 win over Team USA on Oct. 16 at the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Ice Cube.

Sioux City trailed 4-0 when Schmidt scored on Dan Ford's assist at the 5:17 mark. Seven minutes later, Schmidt tallied his second goal of the season, a power-play shot that was assisted by Tommy Olczyk and Stephan Vigier.

Vigier, who had been scoreless in his previous two starts, added another power-play goal to lift the Musketeers within 4-3. Olczyk and Matt Paape recorded assists on just the second goal of the season for Vigier.

Bailey's second goal of the game, however, launched a 3-0 run in the third period for the Stampede.

Sioux City will return to the home ice on Thursday, where it will face defending Clark Cup champion Indiana, starting at 7 p.m.

Sioux Falls 7, Sioux City 3

First period: 1, Sioux Falls -- Matt Bailey (Josh Holmstrom), 14:01. 2, Sioux Falls -- Michael Voran (unassisted), 15:10. 3, Sioux Falls -- Dan Furlong (Anthony Day, Voran), power play, 19:03. Penalties: Coatta, SF, holding, 2:54; 2, Sinelli, SC, slashing, 9;46; Furlong, SF, holding, 16:27; Sinelli, SC, slashing, 18:45; Rashid, SC, holding, 19:30; Ford, SC, delay of game, 19:52; Holmstrom, SF, delay of game, 19:52.

Second period: 4, Sioux Falls -- Jacob Johnstone (Day, Sam Coatta), 4:02. 5, Sioux City -- Adam Schmidt (Dan Ford), 5:17. 6, Sioux City -- Schmidt (Tommy Olczyk, Stephan Vigier), power play, 12:21. 7, Sioux City -- Vigier (Matt Paape, Olczyk), 18:49. Penalties: Drake, SC, delay of game, 3:22; Farris, SF, delay of game, 3:22; Carpenter, SC, delay of game, 6:44; Coyne, SF, delay of game, 6:44; Zehnal, SC, elbowing, 8:41; Wurden, SC, high-sticking, 9:15; Coyne, SF, roughing, 11:33; Ford, SC, cross-checking, 14:03; Perrier, SF, checking from behind, 17:10; Furlong, SF, holding, 18:33; Johnstone, SF, holding, 19:25.

Third period: 8, Sioux Falls -- Bailey (unassisted), power play, 3:24. 9, Sioux Falls -- Ryan Misiak (George Michalke, Brent Darnell), 11:57. 10, Sioux Falls -- Matt Farris (Misiak, Voran), 16:20. Penalties: Drake, SC, fighting (instigator), 2:03; Drake, SC, fighting major, 2:03; Drake, SC, unsportsmanlike conduct game misconduct, 2:03; Voran, SF, checking from behind, 2:03; Voran, SF, checking from behind misconduct, 2:03; Voran, SF, slashing, 4:44; Misiak, SF, hooking, 19:10.

Score by period:

Sioux City 0 3 0 -- 3

Sioux Falls 3 1 3 -- 7

Shots on goal:

Sioux City 7 12 5 -- 24

Sioux Falls 7 10 11 -- 28

Power play: Sioux City 2 for 7. Sioux Falls -- 2 for 7.

Goalkeepers: Matt Skoff, Sioux City, 27 shots, 20 saves; Mike Ness, Sioux City, 1 shot, 1 save. Clay Witt, Sioux Falls, 24 shots, 21 saves.

Referee: Andy Thackaberry. Linesmen: Brandon Baetens, Nicholas Dornfeld.

Attendance: 2,810.