Sarnia Sting Won the Battle over the Spitfires
SATURDAY MARCH 5, 2016
COMMUNITY NEWS
PHOTO BY METCALFE
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The Sarnia Sting
widened their West Division lead
by 3 points after taking a 2 - 1
win against the second place
Windsor Spitfires Friday night
at home in front of 4,225 fans
at the SSEC. The Sting are now
37-18-5-2 for the season.
Nikita Korostelev
put Sarnia in the lead scoring
at 12:50 in the first with
Anthony Salinitri and Travis
Konecny assisting. In the
second on a power play Sam
Studnicka scored to widen the
lead to 2 with Korostelev and
Josh Jackobs earning the assist.
Windsor's Christian Fischer
narrowed the gap at 9:34 and the
action continued for the
remainder of the period and in
the third and Sarnia held on to
take the win.
Charlie Graham
earned the win turning away 27
of 28 shots and Mario Culina
took the loss making 26 saves on
28 shots.
Sarnia went one
for six on the power play,
Windsor was scoreless on three
opportunities.
The two teams
will face each other on Thursday
(March 10) in Windsor.
Sting Notes
-
Sarnia
Legionnaires netminder Shane
Battler got called up for
backup duties with Justin
Fazio sitting out with a
knee injury. It is
unknown when he will return.
Troy Lajeunesse and Franco
Sproviero sat out as healthy
scratches for the Sting.
-
Former Sarnia
Sting head coach Trevor
Letowski who is now with the
Windsor coaching staff was
in Sarnia for the first time
since he was relieved of his
duties after the sale of the
Sting to now head coach
Darien Hatcher.
