Box Score The No. 9 ranked Lancer men's hockey game dominated game one of the OUA West Final with a 7-1 win over the No. 8 Lakehead Thunderwolves Thursday night at South Windsor Arena.
 
Windsor holds a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series, with games two and three, if necessary, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday evenings in Thunder Bay, ON.
 
The Lancers came out of the gate quickly and controlled the pace of play for most of the game. Richard Cameron opened the scoring 7:27 into the game on a deflection that eluded Lakehead goalie Jeff Bosch, and then at the 12:12 mark, Lancer defenceman Saverio Posa scored on a backhand shot after sailing right by the Lakehead defence.
 
Less than a minute later, Spencer Pommells scored from in-close to make it 3-0 for Windsor to round out the scoring in the period. 
 
The Lancers continued to pour it on in the middle stanza, and at 7:07 Pommells scored his second goal of the game when he broke in on Bosch while Windsor was short-handed.
 
Just after the half-way point of the period, Justin McDonald replaced Bosch in the Lakehead goal and was forced to make some big stops right off the bat as the Lancers kept applying the pressure.  That pressure paid off for Windsor when Derek Lanoue fired a hard one-timer from the slot over McDonald's glove at the 15:43 mark to give the Lancers a 5-0 lead.
 
Windsor didn't let up in a very chippy third period, and extended its lead to 6-0 when Ryan Crevatin scored on a screened one-timer that McDonald never saw at 7:49, and then Matt Beaudoin made it 7-0 for the Lancers with a power play marker at 12:16.
 
Lakehead broke the Windsor shutout late in the game when Keith Grondin knocked home a rebound from Cody Alcock, making the final score 7-1 for the Lancers.
 
Lancer goaltender Parker Van Buskirk had an outstanding night between the pipes for the Blue & Gold with 30 saves in net. The Lancers out-shot the Thunderwolves 42-31 in the contest.
 
The puck is set to drop at 7:30pm for game two of the series on Saturday night at the Fort Williams Garden in Thunder Bay. Catch all the action on the live webcast at www.ssncanada.ca