Ryan McGregor scored three points as the Sarnia Sting doubled up the Hamilton Bulldogs 8-4 Sunday night at Progressive Auto Sales Arena.
The Sting now have 47 points in the OHL West Division and are in third place.
The Sting only needed the first period to give themselves a comfortable lead. Mitch Eliot opened the scoring with 98 seconds elapsed in regulation. Brayden Guy scored his first of the game at 12:30 to extend the Sarnia lead to 2-0. Curtis Egert connected 39 seconds later, and Guy put his second puck in the net before the intermission, during which the Sting held a 4-0 advantage.
McGregor made the score 5-0 Sarnia when he lit the lamp at 2:18 in the second period but Hamilton came back with back-to-back goals of their own. Jan Jenik scored his second goal of the season on the power play at 11:42, then Logan Morrison cut the Sarnia lead further with his own extra-man goal just 27 ticks later.
The score became 6-2 Sarnia when McGregor scored again with almost four minutes gone in the third. The OHL-champion Bulldogs were not finished yet though, as Arthur Kaliyev scored two straight goals, one shorthanded and the other on the power play. The Sting got those two goals back thanks to scoring by Hugo Leufvenius and Jacob Perreault.
Cameron Lamour knocked away 35 shots out of 39 tries in net for the Sting. Nick Donofrio had 32 saves for Hamilton.
Sarnia starts a northern Ontario swing on Thursday night when they pay a visit to the Barrie Colts.
