October 30 - 31, 2010
 

The Sarnia Major Atom Sting picked up a win and a loss this past weekend.

On Saturday, the Sting travelled to Waterloo to take on the division leading Waterloo Wolves.  The Sting put out a strong first period effort, with both teams picking up a single goal in the first period.  Justin Houle (assist Devin Devooght) would get the Sarnia goal knocking home a loose puck on a goal mouth scramble.  The Sting would take control of the play in the second period, but were unable to find the finishing touch and the game would go to the 3^rd period tied at 1.  In the third period, Waterloo was able to take possession of the puck from the faceoff, moving into the Sarnia zone and scoring to take a 2 – 1 lead.  This seemed to break the focus of the Sting, who had controlled most of the play to this point, and Waterloo was able to score 3 more goals for a final score of 5 -1.

The Sting were back on the ice on Sunday to face the West London Hawks.  This turned out to be a fairly close checking game until the Sting were able to break through with an unassisted goal on the power play by Jake Vince near the end of the 2^nd period.  Before the period expired Austin Coutts (assist Jack Smith, Matthew Torti) was able to extend the Sting lead to 2 – 0.  In the 3^rd period, Devin Devooght added a short handed goal on a wrap around and the Sting cruised to a 3 – 0 win.  James Dunn was solid in the net picking up the shutout, with the defensive troops providing good support, limiting any quality scoring opportunities.