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Major Atoms Come Home Empty Handed
The Sarnia Jr. Sting traveled out of town for the weekend and
returned home with no points for their efforts for the first
time all season. Their first matchup was with the league leaders
(for now) London Knights Gold. First period action both teams
had numerous chances to score but the period ended with no
goals. During the second London scored in the first minute to
take the lead 1-0. Sarnia responded with a powerplay goal
shortly after when the Sting would dump the puck in and
forecheck hard which lead Jason Braun scoring on a wrap around
from Jared Bourque and Austin Hewton. The Knights would score
again only to have the Sting respond a minute later when Aiden
Chapdelaine would beat the London netminder with Jason Braun and
Austin Hewton picking up assists as the 2nd period
would end 2-2. During third period action Sarnia would make some
small costly mistakes which all resulted in London goals and
this one would end up 5-2 for the Knights but the score didn’t
really show how close this matchup really was.
The following day Sarnia was off to Cambridge to take on the
Hawks. Sarnia came out of the gates hard as they controlled most
of the play until Aiden Chapdelaine would score for the Sting
unassisted on a great single effort. Sarnia continued with the
momentum but were unable to get any more goals past the Hawk
netminder as the 1st period would end with the Sting
up 1-0. During second period action the Sting didn’t come out as
hard and the Hawks would go to work scoring two goals in a 40
second span to take the lead 2-1. Sarnia tried their best to
turn things around but just couldn’t get any bounces as the
Hawks would score a late 2nd period goal off a Sting
players body to take a 3-1 lead into the 3rd. Sarnia
was unable to muster up any offence in the 3rd and
with Cambidge getting all the bounces which lead to another late
goal for the Hawks with just 10 seconds left and the 4-1 victory
for Cambridge. |
