Fourteen different players scored at least one point each as the Sarnia Legionnaires romped to a 12-2 win over the Lambton Shores Predators Thursday.

Captain Tyler Cicchini led the way with four goals. And he only played half the game, sitting down for the last 30 minutes or so with an upper body injury that he said did not appear to be too serious.

Assistant coach Blake Morrison, who handled the bench along with assistant Joe McCormack, also rested some of his other stars at times, letting younger players get plenty of time on the power-play.

The win moved the Legionnaires into third place in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League's Western Conference, one point ahead of fourth place Chatham and five back of second ranked Strathroy.

The Sarnians are in Strathroy Saturday.

Asked if the club can keep moving up in the standings, Cicchini said, “I hope so, we've got a tough game Saturday.”

Cicchini opened the scoring against the Predators at 6:25 of the first period when he backhanded the puck into the net with goalie Taylor Lush down and out.

Jordan Black made it 2-0 a few minutes later, scoring his second of the season from the slot. That gives Black one more goal than he got all of last season.

Lambton Shores closed the gap to a single goal before defenceman Anthony Donati scored a pair of power-play markers to send the Legionnaires into the dressing room with a 4-1 lead. Donati, who was sent to Sarnia earlier in the week by the OHL Plymouth Whalers, got both his goals with drives from the point, including one in which he was a little off balance when he let the puck go.

In the second stanza the Legionnaires came out flying, with a tenacious Owen Rogers setting Cicchini into the clear for his second of the game. Not long after that, Andy Sokol scored to give Sarnia a 6-1 lead.

Cicchini made it a six-goal bulge when he scored his hat-trick goal on the power-play. A little later, with Sarnia playing shorthanded, he streaked in on a breakaway, deked the netminder out of position and hit the back of the net for the fourth time. The goal went into the books as Cicchini's 12^th of the year.

Chase Clark set up Shawn Waldie to make it 9-1 before the period came to a merciful close. For Waldie, it was his fourth goal and 11^th point since joining the Legionnaires 10 games ago.

Josh Teschke got his fourth of the campaign early in the third frame when he banked a shot in off a Predators defender for his fourth of the year. Not long after that, Sokol got his second of the night and fifth of the season when he backhanded a shot in to make it 11-1.

The visitors got their second goal after that, but Joel Steeves roofed a wrist shot to make the final 12-2.

• Attendance was 1,234.

• Cicchini's outburst gave him the first Jr. 'B' hat trick of his career.

• In addition to his goal, Waldie had two assists for the winners, while Tanner Tomlinson and Chase Clarke had three assists each.

• Players with two points included Andy Sokol with two goals, Jordan Black with a goal and an assist and Derek Nap and Owen Rogers with two helpers each.

• Players with one point included Joel Steeves and Josh Teschke, who both got goals, and Tommy Zilokowski, Tanner Ferguson and Kyle Flemington, who all had an assist.

• Sarnia outshot the visitors 61-30.

• Brandon Stewart and Kalvin Thornton had goals for the Predators.

• Cicchini was first star, Donati second star and Sokol third star.