Sarnia Jr B Pacers vs Owen Sound

June 6, 2010


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The Sarnia Jr B Pacers earned a win on Sunday by defeating Owen Sound 7 - 5.  Owen Sound scored the first goal of the game on a powerplay.  Sarnia Stevee General tied things up assisted by Mitch Doughty and Ben Tamming.  In the last period of play in the first Trevor Yealy scored a shorthanded goal to put the Pacers up 2 - 1 at the end of the first.
 

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Second period action saw Sarnia score the first goal on a powerplay by Riley Thompson assisted by Aaron Schieman and Jimmy Purves.  Owen Sound came back and tied things up scoring two shorthanded goals.  Sarnia added their second shorthanded goal to regain the lead by Lance Ross unassisted.  The lead was short lived as Owen Sound scored :32 seconds later and the period ended with both sides even at 4 apiece.

In the third Owen Sound took the lead just over the minute mark, but the Pacers went on and scored three unanswered goals to take the win. TJ Mara scored the tying goal assisted by Purves and Josh Yurchuk.  Riley Thompson scored what turned out to be the winning goal assisted by Tyler Glebe and the final goal was scored by Lance Ross into the empty net.
 

 

Owen Sound went 2 for 7 in powerplay opportunities - Sarnia went 1 for 9.

Tyler Glebe earned the win for the Pacers with 36 saves.  Tom Watkins took the last with the same number of saves.

 

Sarnia has 5 wins for the season and 10 losses.

 

The Pacers host London on Wednesday June 9 at the Clearwater Arena.  Game time 8:00 pm.