MISSISSAUGA – The Sarnia Sting gave the seventh ranked team in the Canadian Hockey League, all they could handle and then some on Friday night.
 

But in the end the Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors held on for a 3–2 victory over the Sting before only 1,689 fans at the Hershey Centre.
 

The loss was Sarnia’s fourth in a row and saw their over all record fall to 13-21-1-1 in the Ontario Hockey League. Mississauga improved to 23-6-3-1 and is now 13-2-1-1 on home ice.
 

The Sting returns home tonight to host the Brampton Battalion beginning at 7:35 p.m. at the RBC Centre.  Sarnia will then be off until December 29^th when the Plymouth Whalers come to town.
 

Last night’s game was close from start to finish as the teams were tied 1-1 after the first period, while the Majors led 2-1 after the second period.
 

It was also the sixth straight game in which the Sting has scored only two goals.
 

 “You have to be happy with the effort tonight,” said Sting head coach Dave MacQueen.  “But it is that same old story that we can’t score.  We did a good job of holding a pretty good hockey team to just three goals.” 
 

The Majors opened the scoring at 9:41 of period one when Jordan Mayer scored on a power play beating goalie Adam Courchaine with a high shot from the slot.
 

Sarnia tied the game at 16:18 when Kale Kerbashian notched his team high 12^th goal, knocking in a rebound off a point shot from Nathan Chiarlitti. 
 

St. Michael’s regained the lead just over a minute into the second period when Casey Cizikas scored on a partial breakaway. 
 

What turned out to be the winning goal came three minutes into the third period when T. J. Battani tipped in a point drive with Courchaine having no chance.
 

Sarnia pulled to within a goal with 11 minutes remaining when Jordan Hill scored his fourth of the year drilling home a high slap shot.
 

But that would be it for the Sting as Majors goalie J.P Anderson closed the door the rest of the way. 
 

MacQueen was incensed with a last minute icing call on his team even though Sarnia was short handed.
 

“There was only a few seconds left, but that’s why we had two guys go hard into their zone.  Who knows what might have happened, but it was a bad call.”
 

The Sting started the game one player under the limit, as defenceman Anthony Donati did not make the trip due to a lower body injury.  They then lost forward Ben O’Quinn in the second period with an upper body injury.
 

Mississauga held a 34-27 edge in shots on goal.   Each team was one for six on the power play.
 

MacQueen hopes his team can end their losing streak tonight.
 

 “I told the players after the game to keep their heads up because they came with a strong work ethic tonight.  They need to bring that same into the game with Brampton.  It’s not going to be easy as Brampton hasn’t played since Wednesday.”
 

 

-     Cizikas was the first star, while Hill (who had a goal and an assist) was second star and Battani third star.

-     Sarnia’s road record is now 6-12-0-1

-     Former Sting first round draft pick Gregg Sutch played in only his 11th game of the season for the Majors due to injuries.  He has just two assists so far. Sutch was traded to St. Michael‘s in the off season.