Box Score The Lancer men's hockey team earned a very important win on Friday night as they defeated the visiting UOIT Ridgebacks 7-4 for their third straight win.
 
Windsor is now 12-12-1 in regular season play and sit in sixth place in the OUA West division. The Lancers were led by captain Matt McCready who had two goals and an assist in the win. Goaltender Parker Van Buskirk earned the win in net making 24 saves.
 
UOIT got on the board first with a goal from Jesse Stoughton at 7:14 of the opening period.
 
Windsor retaliated with two power play goals just 23 seconds apart. Drew Palmer scored his seventh of the year at 15:21 of the period, before Derek Lanoue chipped in his tenth of the year at 15:44 to give the Lancers a one goal leading heading into the intermission.
 
The second period appeared like it was going to be a scoreless frame before thee goals were scored with less than two minutes remaining, all within thirty seconds of each other.
 
McCready scored his first of the game at 18:18 of the period to give Windsor a two goal lead.
 
That lead would only last twenty second as Brendan Wise put the Ridgebacks within one at 18:38. However, the Lancers fired right back with Brett Vandehogen's sixth of the year at 18:48 to again give Windsor a two goal lead to close out the period.
 
In the third, the Ridgebacks scored two more markers to tie the game before the Lancers were able to get another one past Ridgeback goaltender Jason Guy.
 
McCready broke the tie with his second of the night at 8:07 of the period. Fifty-two seconds later at 9:01 Ryan Green gave the Lancers the go ahead goal, before Brett Oliphant put up an insurance marker at 19:38 to close out the high scoring affair.
 
The Lancers will host the Brock Badgers on Saturday night at Windsor Arena. The puck is set to drop at 7:30pm in this highly anticipated match-up, as the Badgers are only one game up on the Lancers in the standings.