OHL Sarnia Sting

Sting Fall in Guelph

Published on March 15, 2014 under Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Sarnia Sting News Release


GUELPH - The Guelph Storm clinched first place overall in the Ontario Hockey League with a 13-1 victory over the Sarnia Sting, Friday night before a sell-out crowd of 4,901 fans at the Sleeman Centre.

With one game remaining, Guelph sports the best record at 52-12-2-1. They will be the top seed in the Western Conference and meet Plymouth in the opening round of playoffs.

Sarnia has one game remaining as they travel to Erie on Saturday to take on the Otters.

The Storm took control of last night's game scoring four unanswered goals in the opening period.  Two of the goals came on the power play as Sarnia took all five minor penalties assessed in the period.

Guelph outscored the Sting 2-1 in the second period. Hayden Hodgson scored the Sarnia goal on a power play. He went in alone on a breakaway and snapped a low shot pass the netminder for his ninth goal of the season.

The Storm showed no mercy in the third period scoring seven times as they outshot Sarnia 27-3.

Overall Guelph held a 61-20 edge in shots on goal. Justin Nichols was the winning goalie while Brodie Barrick took the loss.

The Sting went into the game with just four regular defencemen, Jimmy McDowell, Josh Chapman, Kevin Spinozzi and Zachary Core. Forward Brandon Lindberg filled in as a fifth defencemen.

Sarnia had six regulars out of the lineup because of injury or suspension. They included defencemen Anthony DeAngelo, Connor Schlichting and Jeff King, along with forwards Dustin Brown, Alex Renaud, and Patrick White. (Renaud suffered a concussion in Thursday's win over Kitchener).

DeAngelo and King are eligible to return for the Sting's last game of the season.

Guelph was three-for-nine on the power play and also had a shorthanded tally while Sarnia was one-for-four with the man advantage.

Scott Kosmachuk led the Storm with four goals, giving him 48 on the season. Kerby Rychel and Nick Ebert had two apiece with singles going to Phil Baltisberger, Zac Leslie, Robby Fabbri, Jason Dickinson and Marc Stevens.

STING NOTES

-         With one game left, Guelph has scored 339 goals, the most of any team. They finish the regular season with the second best home record at 29-4-0-1. Only Erie is better at 29-3-1-0 with one game left.

-         The Storm was 4-0 against Sarnia this season.

-         Sarnia's road record is second worst in the league at 7-24-1-1.

-         The 13 goals were the most Sarnia has allowed in one game this year. The previous high was 11.

 

 

 

 

Dave Borody is a freelance writer who covers Sting games both home and away and also does features for the Sting Website.

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