Sunday Sept 16 - The Lambton
Shores Predators hosted the St. Marys Lincolns on Sunday
night in Greater Ontario Hockey Jr B League action and took
a 5 - 4 loss.
"I thought we played pretty
hard, a couple mental errors and bad bounces cost us the
game." said Assistant Coach Doug Slipacoff "It was an
improvement over last nights game." The Predators lost to
Strathroy 4 - 1.
St. Mary's nailed the first goal
shorthanded after Sean Consitt came up with the puck in
front of the net. Power play goal by Kyler Keating
tied things up and the first period ended both even with one
apiece.
Second period saw Lambton Shores
take the lead just :31 seconds into the period on a goal
scored by Kyle Brothers. St. Marys second goal came on
the power play by Dean Pawlaczky. Brothers would score
his second of the night to regain the lead however St. Marys
would again even things up on another power play scored by
Jonathan Rizzo. Late in the period Bryan McCauley's scored
for St Marys that gave the Lincolns the 4 - 3 lead heading
into the third period.
Third period action saw St Marys
widen their lead by one when Johnathan Rizzo scored his
second power play goal of the night. Midway Lambton
Shores answered back on a power play with Brothers scoring
his third goal of the night. In last minute of play
the Predators pulled their goalie but time ran out and they
were not able to even the score.
Craig Wood earned the win in net
for St. Marys making a total of 29 saves. Brandon
Campbell took the loss with 23 saves.
Lambton Shores went 2 for 6 on
power play opportunities, St Marys went 3 for 6.
Kyle Brothers earned 3 points in
the night scoring 3 goals. Adam Areseneault and Ryan
Rotondi also earned 3 points in the game with 3 assists
each.
"I thought we battle 60 minutes
real hard but we just couldn't get any bounces and couldn't
find a way to get the equalizer at the end of the game when
we needed it. We have a lot of learning to go here, we
have a lot of young guys and our roster is really young but
it will come together." said Slipacoff
The Predators are now 1 and 3
for the season and are back in action for their first road
game of the season on Wed Sept 19 in London.
