Sarnia Sting vs Kitchener Rangers
November 8, 2008

Pre-game
Sarnia Sting Remembers

The pre game ceremony featured several veterans from various conflicts as well as local families of fallen soldiers. The Sarnia Sting wore their commemorative jerseys in this Remembrance Tribute to our Veterans past and present. In support of the evening The Kitchener Rangers also wore commemorative jerseys in tribute to the military personnel around the world. The Sarnia Sting jerserys will be auction off with proceeds going to the Local Legion.  The jersey auction will be conducted on the Sarnia Sting website www.sarniasting.com.

The Sarnia Legionnaires Players were also showing their support to the Sarnia Sting as the Sting did on Thursday evening at the Sarnia Legionnaires game by handing out poppies.
 

The Rangers opened the scoring in the first period at 3:22 on a soft goal that had taken a strange bounce that got by Sting netminder Dan Spence.

Sarnia came back at 7:55 to tie things up with Justing DiBenedetto scoring his 13th goal of the season assisted by Jamie Arniel.  At 18:11 in the first period Matt Martin scored a shorthanded goal with Mark Katic and Daniel Lombardi assisting to put the Sting up 2 - 1.

Second period saw Sarnia score two unanswered goals to widen their lead to 4 - 1.  Daniel Lombardi scored the first goal with assistance from Steve Reese and Matt Martin and Marcus Pepe scored his first goal of the season with help from Michael Neal and Greg Sutch.

Third period action put the fans on the edge as Kitchener scored 2 late period goals the first at 17:45 on a powerplay and at 19:21, but the Sting held on to take the win.

The Sting outshot the Rangers by 40 - 37 and the Rangers went 1 for 5 in the powerplay, the Sting went 0 for 4.

The Sting head out for a 3 game road trip starting on Friday Nov 14 in Oshawa, Saturday in Barrie and then on Sunday they are in Sudbury.  Next home game in on Friday November 21 when the Sault Greyhounds visit the SSEC for a game start at 7:30pm.