Sloppy Win for Major Midgets AAA
Sunday November 23, 2014
The Lambton Jr.
Sting Major Midget AAA team
defeated the Huron Perth Jr.
Cullitons 4-3 on Saturday
afternoon at the RBC Centre in
Alliance League hockey action.
The Jr. Sting got
off to a good start taking
control of the first period with
most of the action deep in the
Jr. Cullitons end however the
Jr. Sting were unable to
capitalized on many good
opportunities.
"We got to score when we have
the opportunities," Assistant
Coach Glenn LeCour said "We had
four or five breakaways that we
could have easily put that game
out of reach early."
The Jr. Sting did
score first at 4:35 in the first
period by Marco Mini assisted by
Dillon Saunders and Sean Ginnell.
But on a fluke goal the Jr.
Cullitons evened the score a
minute and two seconds after the
puck was shot into the end and
bounced off the boards and hit
goalie Shayne Battler in the
back of the leg and bounced in.
The score
remained tied at 1 - 1 heading
into the second and the same
after a scoreless second period.
The highlight
goal of the night was scored by
Brock Perry at 12:05 in the
third after taking a perfect
pass from Sean Ginnell then
Perry took aim and made no
mistake and scored. Mathew
Stevens was also credited with
an assist on the play. Less than
a minute later on another
misfortune play when the puck
ricocheted off a couple of
Lambton players that found it's
way into the net to even the
score.
At 17:20 Huron
Perth took the lead for the
first time then just over a
minute later Jarret Marks evened
things up scoring an unassisted
goal. As the clock was
winding down and it appeared the
game would go into overtime Sean
Ginnell scored an unassisted
goal with just 23 seconds left
in the game to give the Jr.
Sting the win.
"A win's a win
that's exactly how you got to
look at it, its 2 points,"
LeCour said "They put the
pressure on us and we knew we
were lucky."
Shayne Battler earned his 7th
win in net for the Lambton that
gives him a record of 7-1 so far
this season.
Lambton's record is now 13 - 3
and currently in third place.
On Sunday the
team travels to Waterloo to take
on the Wolves who are in 6th
place with a record of 3 - 12.
"Waterloo they're
tough. They are getting better
they had a rough start but they
got some players back from Jr. B
so we are expecting a tough game
and we got to come out and be
ready to play."
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