Perry Leads Legionnaires to Victory
FRIDAY JANUARY 29, 2016
COMMUNITY NEWS
By Dan McCaffery
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Brock
Perry led the Sarnia
Legionnaires to their second
straight victory Thursday.
The lanky forward scored two
goals and set up a third as the
Legion crew doubled the St.
Marys Lincolns 6-3.
With the triumph, Sarnia
improved its record to
19-16-2-3. The team remains in
sixth place in the nine-team
Western Jr. 'B' hockey loop but
finds itself only two points
back of fifth ranked LaSalle.
The Legionnaires jumped into a
quick lead, with defenceman Brad
Yowart coming off the point on a
power play to fire the puck into
the open side of the net from
close range. He was set up by
Ryan Vendramin, who fed him a
perfect cross-ice pass. Perry
also got a helper on the play.
Yowart now has nine goals to his
credit, tops among Sarnia
rearguards.
Not long after that, Jordan
Fogarty buried a passout from
behind the net from Alec
DeKoning to make it 2-0 for the
home team. Konnor Roskovich also
had a hand in what was Fogarty's
15th of the campaign.
But the Lincs stormed back with
two tallies of their own to
deadlock matters at the end of
20 minutes of action.
"After the first period we had a
long chat about playing hard the
whole time and they were able to
do that over the last two
periods, Sarnia assistant coach
Tom Norris said.
In fact, the Legionnaires scored
the only goal of the middle
frame, with Perry connecting
from Brandon Layman and Eric
Marsh.
In the final stanza the
Legionnaires dominated play,
getting goals from Layman (his
19th), Perry (his 15th) and
Jacob Stos (his sixth).
Afterward, Norris had praise for
the play of goalie Shayne
Battler, who made 21 saves on
his way to his 12th win of the
season.
"Battler is doing well for us,
Norris said. He's doing what
he's got to do.
The Legionnaires fired 33 shots
on Lincs goalies Paul Town and
Emanuel Vella.
Game notes:
-
Perry may be
suspended because, after
scoring his second goal, he
took his helmet off to
inspect a bloody mouth.
Players are not allowed to
remove their head gear at
any time when they are on
the ice. There was no
penalty to the St. Marys
player who cut him with a
high stick.
-
Sarnia
defenceman Sam McCormack was
also cut by a high stick but
a penalty was called on that
infraction.
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The
Legionnaires have officially
clinched a playoff spot.
-
St. Marys
goals were scored by Brent
House, Nathan Smith and
Graham Brulotte.
-
Fogarty's
goal was the 100th point of
his junior career.
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Sarnia plays
the Lambton Shores Predators
in Forest Saturday before
travelling to Strathroy for
a Sunday contest with the
Rockets. Their next home
game is next Thursday, when
they host the LaSalle
Vipers.