The Sarnia Lady
Sting Midget AA girls were recently in
Guelph for the Thunderstorms girls
tournament. After playing their hearts out
in the first three games, they finished in a
tie for second with the home team from
Guelph. Unfortunately, because they had the
same amount of wins and had tied head to
head it went to goal differential. This put
Guelph in the semis and sent Sarnia home
despite being the strongest team in the
pool. Sarnia's struggle to put the puck in
the net as of late was once again their
downfall.
Game one was
against the St. Thomas Panthers, in previous
meetings they had each taken a game. This
time Sarnia outplayed and outshot them the
entire game. St. Thomas's very hot
goaltender kept the game as close as it was.
The only goal came from Sarnia's Marlowe
Pecora who picked up the puck on a
deflection off the boards and went in
hard and on a beautiful deke beat the goalie
to give Sarnia the win. Kelsey Dobbin
assisted on the play. Cassie Kerrigan had
a strong game in net for Sarnia.
Game two was a
stronger match up between Sarnia and home
team Guelph. The Thunderstorm would score
early in the first period and hold that lead
until late in the third when Karly Dobbin's
hard work in front of the net paid off as
she fought hard to put one behind a very
strong goaltender. Megan Moore and Amy
VandenEynde both picked up assists. Mallory
Mullin was in net for the Sting and the only
goal allowed was on an unlucky bounce
over her shoulder.
Game three was
against the Hamilton Hawks, even a tie would
have put Sarnia in first place. It looked
good as Sarnia scored only minutes into the
first period. Alicia MacDougall stole the
puck from a Hawks player leaving the zone
and let a hard snapshot go to find the upper
corner of the net. It was unassisted. This
unfortunately was the Stings only goal of
the game despite a barrage of shots on
Hamilton's goaltender. Hamilton would go on
to score three of their own and add an empty
net goal in the dying seconds to send Sarnia
packing.
The Sting played
very well all weekend, they just never had
luck on their side.
They have two
games this week. They are away in Chatham on
Wednesday and have a home game Sunday
against Kitchener at the RBC Centre at 1:15.
