Liam Beamish scored twice as the Sarnia Sting kicked off their Ontario Hockey League pre-season schedule Friday with a 6-5 road loss to the London Knights. Article content

Logan Hawery buried the winning goal with 35 seconds left in the third period in front of 7,196 fans at London’s Canada Life Place. Article content Article content

The Highway 402 rivals will face off again Saturday at Progressive Auto Sales Arena at 7:05 p.m.

The Sting held 3-1, 4-3 and 5-4 leads in the penalty-filled opener of the home-and-home series.

Ryan Chamberlain, Kaden Aucoin and James Barr also scored for the Sting, who went 3-for-9 on the power play.

Minus several key players from their Memorial Cup championship team, the Knights were 2-for-6 with a man advantage.

Barr’s power-play goal snapped a 4-4

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