Box Score The No.6 Lancer men's hockey team suffered just their second loss of the season when they fell 5-4 to the Waterloo Warriors in double overtime at South Windsor Arena.
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With the loss, the Lancers are now 13-1-1 on the season and continue to remain in first place in the OUA. The Warriors head into the holiday break on a six game win streak and a 10-6-1 record to sit right behind Windsor in the west division standings.
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The Lancers opened up the scoring just four minutes in as
Saverio Posa rang one off the glass on a dump in. The puck ended up bouncing into the net as Warrior goaltender Mike Morrison came out to play the puck.
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The Warriors answered shortly after with a goal from Brett Mackie as he put one over the shoulder of
Parker Van Buskirk to even the score at 1-1. Waterloo then took a 2-1 lead as Adam Bignell scored with assists from Chris Chappell and Colin Behanna.
Julian Luciani evened it up for the Lancers at 2 a piece at 14:43 of the first period with assists from
Spencer Pommells and
Dylan Denomme.
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Shortly after this goal, the Lancers went to the power play and
Kenny Bradford scored just 10 seconds into the Waterloo penalty putting the Lancer's up 3-2 heading into the second period.
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Both teams battled hard and scored one goal each in the second period. Bradford scored his second of the game, while Chris Chappell added the Warriors marker.
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With the Lancers up by one going into the third period, Waterloo came out hard and scored just two minutes into the period to tie the game 4-4. Both goalies and defenceman turned away many chances in an even played match, forcing the game into overtime.
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The first overtime saw no goals so the game advanced into a 3-on-3 second overtime period. Waterloo who came out on top as Chappell put one past VanBuskirk for his second of the game to earn the win for the visiting Warriors.
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Van Buskirk finished the game with 31 saves while Waterloo's Mike Morrison had 49 saves in an a hard earned win.
Spencer Pommells finished the game with three assists to stay atop the CIS leaderboard with 32 points.
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Windsor will hit the road tomorrow night to face the York Lions at 7:00pm in Toronto, before closing out the front portion of their schedule next Wednesday when they host the Western Mustangs at 7:30pm at South Windsor Arena. The game can been seen live at
www.oua.tv and hear on CJAM 99.1FM.Â