Prescott got off to a Flying start with F Brett VanStralen putting one in the top corner 18 seconds into the game.
Arnprior snapped into the game a few minutes later, answering back to make it a brand new game with less than 5 minutes gone in the first.
Arnprior was not to be denied though in the final minutes of the first period with a Packers player walking through four Flyers before throwing the puck on net where a teammate cleaned up the rebound.
Arnprior would add a third before the end of the period on the power play from a Cameron McLean holding penalty, ending the first with a 3-1 lead and all the momentum to the visitors.
Packers’ Bailey Hein went to work on two more Prescott players in the second period before putting his shot off the post, only to have teammate, and former Flyer, Dan Monk finish neatly between the legs for Arnprior’s fourth.
Arnprior dominated the rest of the second period both physically and in time on the puck; Prescott needed the break.
There was some respite for the Flyers in the third with Shawn Sloan potting Prescott’s second on a 5-on-3 power play.
Any sniff of a comeback was stifled though by Arnprior’s Mathew Labrose, picking up on a sloppy clearance from the Flyers defence and putting in the Packer’s fifth.
Prescott grabbed a consolation goal through F Carson Pickup, scoring from the slot to make it a 5-3 game.
Devan Miller did his best to capitalize on an Arnprior slip up before being brought down on the resulting break away, winning a penalty shot. Unfortunately Shayne Lynott put the opportunity to waste, pulling his shot low and wide, compounding the frustrating night for Prescott.
Head Coach Mark Armstrong admitted his squad didn’t play a full 60 minutes and weren’t deserving of a victory.
Armstrong acknowledged that with such a young group of players, it can be mentally strenuous playing the top two teams in the division back to back like the Flyers did this weekend; Prescott managed to pick up a point Friday night in a 3-2 shootout loss to Perth.
It was Prescott’s sixth regulation loss of the season. The Flyers don’t play at home again until November 12th.