Pommells hat trick lifts Lancers over Concordia

In game two of a weekend double-header, Spencer Pommells and the No. 7 ranked Lancer men's hockey team dominated the Concordia Stingers 8-4 to sweep the series at South Windsor Arena.
 
With the win, Windsor earns their third straight victory and improves to 17-3-1 on the year and continues to sit in first place in the OUA. After a pair of weekend losses, the Stingers fall to 7-15-0 and sit above the RMC Paladins, who are in last place in the OUA east division.
 
Pommells finished the game with 3 goals and 2 assists, while goaltender Parker Van Buskirk turned aside 30 shots to earn the victory in net. Pommells, a native of Grand Prairie, AB, continues to lead the CIS in scoring with an impressive 42 points (14G, 28A) in 21 games.
 
In a high scoring first period, Pommells put the Lancers on the board first with a gorgeous shot placed over the shoulder of Stingers goaltender Alexandre St-Arnaud. Four minutes later, Matt Beaudoin fired a shot into the top corner, with assists from Pommells and Julian Luciani, putting the Blue & Gold up 2-0. 
 
Just over a minute later, Concordia capitalized on a power play as Domenic Beauchemin beat Van Buskirk to cut the Lancer lead to one.
 
With Concordia putting a lot of pressure on the Lancers, Pommells broke through the defence and scored his second of the night, unassisted. After a goalie change, Concordia kept battling back and Beauchemin scored his second of the night to make the score 3-2 after the first period. The Stingers outshot the Lancers 20-12 in the period.
 
Four minutes into the second, Concordia's Gabriel Bourret sent an up ice pass to Dany Potvin to spring him on a breakaway, where he slid the puck between the legs of Van Buskirk to even the score at three apiece.
 
Midway through the frame on a Lancer power play, Pommells buried a rebound to give him a league leading second hat-trick of the season.  Dylan Denomme added another power play marker to put Windsor up 5-3 heading into the final period.
 
The Stingers started the third period strong as Scott Oke found a wide open Oliver Hinse in the slot, where he made no mistake. From there it was the Lancers who took charge of the third period and took advantage of Concordia's defensive lapses, as Luciani and Eric Noel added a goal each, to make the final score 8-4 for Windsor.
 
Windsor will hit the road next week for a pair of games against the Brock Badgers (9-10-2) on Friday night and the Laurier Golden Hawks (7-13-1) on Saturday. Both games will kick off at 7:30pm.