Cedar Park, TX—Cal O’Reilly and Mark Friedman scored for the Admirals, but it wasn’t enough as they dropped a 4-2 decision in game one of the Central Division Finals to the Texas Stars on Thursday night.

Texas leads the best-of-five series 1-0 with game two set for Sunday night.

The Stars got on the board first when Matthew Seminoff was able to poke a loose puck in the crease past Ads netminder Matt Murray 3:10 into the game.

The Admirals knotted the scored at one on a power-play marker from O’Reilly at the 8:16 mark. After the Ads won the draw Friedman fired a shot-pass off the end boards and right to O’Reilly, who had a wide open net to score his second of the playoffs.

However, Justin Hryckowian picked up his first of two goals in the game with a rebound tally with just 3.6 seconds remaining the second and then scored again, this time on the power-play 4:07 into the second for a 3-1 Texas advantage.

The Stars made it 4-1 on a breakaway goal from Matej Blumel just over five minutes into the third period.

Friedman, who was the only Ads player with a multi-point night, pulled the team within two with a blast from the right circle that beat Stars netminder Magnus Hellberg at 9:47 of the third period, but that was as close as the team would get.

Murray saw his three-game winning streak snapped as he made 24 saves on the night for Milwaukee, while Hellberg, who played three seasons with the Admirals from 2013-16, stopped 23 shots to pick up the win.

Game two of the series will take place on Sunday night at 7 pm in Cedar Park before it shifts to Milwaukee for games three, and if necessary, four and five beginning Wednesday, May 21st at 7 pm at Panther Arena.