January 24^th, 2010

The Sarnia Sting Minor Novice MD Hockey Club played their second game of the weekend on Sunday afternoon at Germain arena and won a thrilling, come from behind, nail biter 5-4 against their rivals from West London. The Hawks opened the scoring in the 1^st period, but Blake Butler quickly got the Sting even on the power play scoring on a nice rush with assists going to Lucas Delorenzo and Andrew Lemieux. The second period was a strong defensive effort by both clubs with Ethan Langford, of the Sting, making several key saves and the efforts of Christopher Scott on the blue line were not missed by the coaching staff earning Scott the “hardest worker” hardhat. The Sting entered the 3^rd not knowing what intense excitement this group was going to brings their fans.

The Sting after falling behind in the 2^nd ,quickly tied the game on a beautiful top-shelf goal by Nicholas Medeiros who was fed an amazing breakaway pass from Kaden Babcock. Lucan Hazzard picked up his 3^rd of the season on a hard working effort in front of the West London net assisted by his line mates Wil O’Leary-Dilosa and Medeiros. Falling behind once again, it was Blake Butlers turn to dazzle the Sting faithful. Butler notched his 24^th of the season, to tie the game at 4-4,  on a great rush assisted by defenseman Scott.   Now it was time for the “smurf” line to send the Sting fans home excited when Medeiros snuck the game winner past the West London goalie on assists from Hazzard & O’Leary-Dilosa. The theme for this game was never give up, work hard & reap your rewards. Coach Babcock and his staff had the team prepared to battle and the Sting and the Hawks provided a tremendous hockey game for everyone in attendance!