Now That's Entertainment!
friday december 19, 2014
The 1,486 fans got their money's
worth Thursday night at the
Sarnia arena when the Sarnia
Legionnaires took a 3 - 2
overtime win against the St.
Thomas Stars in Greater Ontario
Jr B hockey league action.
Trailing 2 - 1
heading into the final minute
the Legionnaires kept the fans
on the edge of their seats. With
their goalie pulled for the
extra man attacker pandemonium
broke out when Cody Trowell
scored the tying goal with just
2.1 seconds left on the clock.
The game went
into overtime and pandemonium
broke again when the
Legionnaires scored at 1:27 to
take win. The record shows
that Davis Boyer scored the goal
but after the game coaching
staff told the media it was
actually Cameron Clark who
scored the goal.
"I scored the first shot then
for some reason the puck kept
going and Davis turned and was
celebrating and everyone was
coming off the bench," Cameron
Clarke said "I passed it
up to Davis right around the red
line and he passed it on to
Brandon Layman and Layman
made a nice backhand pass to me
and I just put it over the
goalie shoulder."
The scoring
wasn't the only entertaining
part of the game as both
netminders made some outstanding
saves including a game saver
breakaway Cornel Felder made in
overtime.
"Felder was
awesome tonight he played really
well." Head Coach Dan Rose
said "The shots that they got he
made some really good saves and
he was our player of the game.
He made that save in overtime
and they came back and scored
that the difference in the
game."
Sarnia outshot St. Thomas 34 -
32. Dan Black made 31
saves for St. Thomas.
Leading up to the
final PJ Vandervaart scored his
first goal of the season in the
first period and St. Thomas
Jesse Anderson tied the game
later in the period. In
the second Jordan Babb scored a
power play goal for St. Thomas
to take the 2 - 1 lead heading
into the third.
"I thought we
played well for the first 10
minutes of the game and then we
got a little sloppy the second
10 minutes. We completely
dominated on the five on five
but we got into penalty trouble
in the second period and it
killed our momentum."
Sarnia went
scoreless on three power play
opportunities, St. Thomas scored
once on seven opportunities.
Sarnia remains in
second place behind Leamington
with a record of 22-8-0.
They are back in action Saturday
night in Lambton Shores (9-19-3)
at 7:30 then on Sunday they take
on the top team in Leamington
against the Flyers (26-6-1) at
4:10 pm.
"Hopefully we'll have a full
line up," Clarke said "It's a
big one on Saturday but we want
to win that game against
Leamington to get closer to
first place."
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