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Hunter
Monkhouse scored three goals and Liam McCarthy
stopped all 21 shots he faced as the Lambton Sting
Minor Atom AAA's wrapped up their regular season
with a 6-0 victory over the Kitchener Jr Rangers.
The win leaves the Sting with a 14-15-1 record in
league play and 27-26-3 overall.
Wanting to make a statement heading into the
playoffs the Sting came out flying against Kitchener
and scored the only goal of the first period.
Spencer Vandenboom made a nice rush to get the
opening marker with Cole MacKinnon drawing an
assist.
In the second period the Sting would get 2 more
goals with both coming off the stick of Monkhouse.
Josh McLean would earn the assist on the first goal
and Vandenboom made a nice pass to set up the second
score. Kitchener had a few good chances to get on
the scoresheet but McCarthy made a couple of big
glove saves to allow Lambton to take a 3-0 lead into
the final period.
The score would remain 3-0 for the first 12 minutes
of the third period before Monkhouse would complete
the natural hat trick with a power play goal
assisted by MacKinnon. The Sting would put the game
away with 2 more goals in the next minute. First it
was Nolan DeGurse scoring with help from Vandenboom
and Blake Brand and then Vandenboom rounded out the
scoring with his second of the game from DeGurse and
Jaycob White. McCarthy picked up his 5th shutout of
the year in the win.
The Sting begin a best-of-five quarterfinal playoff
series with the Sun County Panthers next weekend
with games in Essex on Saturday and at the RBC
Centre on Sunday.
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