Lambton AAA Minor Atoms – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde weekend

The Jr Sting squad played two contrasting games over the past weekend with the first one being a road contest at Nichols arena in London. The Lambton team looked like they had dipped into some magic potion before the game and quickly found themselves behind an enthusiastic and hungry London Knights team. The Knights held a 6-0 lead after one period and they cruised the rest of the way enroute to a 9-0 pasting of the Jr Sting.

Lucky for the boys the potion wore off for Sunday’s exhibition match against the Lakeland Hawks team from Michigan. Having put the events of the prior day behind them the Lambton squad came out with their offensive guns firing and jumped out to a lead of 4-0 after the first period of play. The play seemed to even out as the game went on but a solid defensive effort from the goaltenders through the defencemen and the forwards let the Jr Sting build on their lead and with two more tallies in the second period and a single in the third they finished with a decisive 7-0 victory. Sharing the shutout for the Sting were Tyler Armitage and Jake Wilkins who both came up with some fabulous saves. Picking up points in the contest were Jake Burnard with 3 goals and 1 assist, Brock Perry with 1 goal and 3 assists, Patrick Wright with 2 goals, Isaac McLean with a single and assists to Brett Barnes (2), Franco Sproviero, Vaughan DeGurse and Alec Dekoning.  Picking up the Sting ‘Hardhat’ for his hustle and fore checking was Jack Dunn.

The team’s next action will be in Mississauga for the Shanahan International Atom and PeeWee AAA tourney.