Sarnia Extends Winning Streak To Three Games, Beating Sudbury 5-1
By Carl Chimenti
The Sarnia Sting (5-2-1-2) scored three unanswered goals in the second period to break open a close game and went on to beat the Sudbury Wolves (5-4-0-0) Friday night, at the Sudbury Community Arena. The win was the second road win this year, as the Sting ran their overall winning streak to three games.
Ryan Brown led the way with two points, scoring what proved to be the game winning goal early in the middle frame. Brown was selected as the first star. Tyson Doucette scored a power-play goal in the final minute of the opening period, which tied the game at 1-1 and was named the third star. Alessandro Di lorio added a pair of assists for the second straight game, while extending his point streak to four games (2-4-6) and was the second star. Mitch Young, Carter Kostuch and Zach Filak scored one goal each. For Filak, it was his 50th career OHL goal. Lukas Fischer (St. Louis Blues), who returned to the line-up, contributed two assists, James Barr, Ruslan Karimov, Jack Bodin and Beckham Edwards added single helpers. Edwards has points in seven of his past eight games (5-4-9). Evan Maillet, stopped 23 of 24 shots in net for the Sting. Sarnia out-shot Sudbury 29-24.
The Sting power-play continued to roll, scoring for a third straight game, going 1/6, while Sudbury failed on 4 attempts. The first period saw the two teams trading goals. Chase Coughlan (6th), put the Wolves on top at 10:35 and Doucette (4th) tied the game, finishing off a three way passing play, on the power-play, that included Di lorio and Brown at 19:28. The second period was all Sarnia as they lit the lamp three times in 2:31, while out-shooting Sudbury 13-8. Karimov was instrumental on the first goal as he did the grunt work behind the net and was able to put the puck in front and Brown scored his third of the season when the puck hit Wolves player Ewles in the skate and deflected into the net at 3:45.
The Sting scored again 47 seconds later at 4:32 on a three way passing play. Di lorio was able to get Fischer the puck and he skated into the Wolves end before passing the puck to Filak, who found the back of the net for his second of the year. Sarnia made it 4-1 at 6:16 as Young ripped a shot that beat Marshall on the stick side for his second of the year.
The Sting will wrap up their northern Ontario swing with an afternoon game Sunday (2:07 puck drop), against the Soo Greyhounds.