Sarnia Legionnaires Defeat Lambton Shores Predators
friday november 14, 2014
The Legionnaires
back in the win column on
Thursday night after defeating
the Lambton Shores Predators 6 -
4 in Greater Ontario Jr. B
league action at the Sarnia
Arena before 1,309 local fans.
"All and all that
wasn't a bad game," head coach
Dan Rose said. "It's
a win and something that's
positive for our hockey team
right now."
After a sleepy first period the
Legionnaires took a 1 - 0 lead
late in the period at 18:24 when
Cody Trowell parked in front of
the net took the pass and tapped
it in. Riley Babkirk and Davis
Boyer earned the assist on the
play.
At 1:27 in the second period the
same line combination added the
second goal with Davis Boyer
scoring assisted by Babkirk and
Trowell.
"They dominated, they're 20
years old they should," Rose
said "They're strong and showing
what they are capable of. We
tried all different line
combinations since we been
shorthanded so we thought we put
at least one strong line
together and get some goals to
see what happens and challenge
everyone else to do their job."
The third goal
was a power play goal scored a
minute later on a power play
after Kyler Keating banged it in
from the blueline. Babkirk
and Brad Campbell picked up the
assist. Sarnia then
widened their lead to 4 - 0 when
Boyer scored his second goal at
6:49 with Brandon Layman and
Trowell earning the assists.
"We were up 4 - 0
and we were playing pretty well
and that five minute major
killed us." Rose said
referring to the next two power
play goals that was scored by
the Predators. The first
by Ryan Fraser at 17:27 and at
17:53 by Ethan Sarfati.
Heading into the
third with a 4 - 2 lead for the
Legionnaires Ryan Vendramin
tapped it into the open side
with help from his two
defencemen Sam McCormack and
Cameron Clarke. The
Predators continued to battle
back and after having one goal
waved off they came back and
score shortly after when Ethan
Sarfati roofed it into the top
of the net for his second of the
night. Legionnaires found
themselves back in the penalty
box and the Predators scored at
14:08 when a second penalty was
being called on the power play
giving the Predators a 6 - 4 man
advantage and Sean Ross scored
to narrow the gap to 5 - 4.
"It's something
those calls are going to happen
and we battled through it," Rose
said "Give them credit they had
an opportunity to get back into
the game and they fought their
way back."
Davis Boyer
regained the two goal spread at
17:06 scoring his third of the
night and the game ended with
the Legionnaires taking the win.
"I guess they
kind of bounced my way and my
line mates worked well all night
they just kept firing at the net
for me," Boyer said after the
game about his performance. "It
was tough we had to kill off
that five minute penalty and
they got a couple of goals on
that. We had to regroup
even though we still had a two
goal lead we just tried to get
back to playing our game."
Babkirk earned
his 4th assist on the final
goal.
Shots on goal were even with 38
apiece. Hunter Johnson
picked up the win for Sarnia
made 34 saves. Andrew
Harriman-Duke made 34 saves for
Lambton Shores.
Sarnia went one
for two on the power play,
Lambton Shored scored three
times on six opportunities.
The Legionnaires are now sitting
in second place in the Western
Conference with a record of
15-5-0 trailing four
points but two games back behind
Leamington (17-5-0).
"It's been a real
tough couple of weeks a lot of
injuries and a couple of
suspensions, "Boyer said "I
think it's good for us to get a
win at home and hopefully build
on that tomorrow on the road."
The team travels
to St. Mary's Friday. St.
Mary's is in last place
(2-16-2). Next week the
Legionnaires have another road
gamel to LaSalle (11-9-0) on
Wednesday November 19 before
returning home on Thursday to
face off against Strathroy
(10-12-0).
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