The Lancer men's hockey team dropped both games in their weekend road trip to the city of Waterloo with a 2-1 overtime loss to the Waterloo Warriors on Friday night and a 2-1 shootout loss against the Laurier Golden Hawks on Saturday.
 
With the pair of losses, the Lancers move to 3-4-3 on the season and sit in a three way tie for sixth in the west division.
 
FRIDAY vs Waterloo
Off the opening faceoff, the Warriors controlled the bulk of the action, outshooting Windsor 15-8 in the period and taking a 1-0 lead heading into the break. But the extended first intermission seemed to help the visitors regroup, as they were a different club in the middle stanza – the Lancers outshot Waterloo 10-8 in the frame, and Ryan Taylor tied things up at 1-1 when he hammered home a rebound off a turnover and wraparound attempt by Chris Scott.
 
Both teams had chances to claim the difference-making goal in the third, but the goaltenders extended the night to a 3-on-3 overtime session. Just over a minute into the fourth period, the Warriors won it when Eric Diodati led the rush and dropped a pass to a streaking Markson Bechtold, before driving the net himself. Bechtold hammered a slap shot that Jonathan Reinhart got a piece of, sending it into the air, where Diodati batted it home on the doorstep for the game-winning goal.
 
Reinhart made 29 saves in net for Windsor.
 
SATURDAY vs Laurier
After a scoreless first period, the host Golden Hawks got on the board first early in the second on the power play when Danny Hanlon shot the puck past Lancer goaltender Blake Richard.
 
Windsor did not let their lead last long, however, as they capitalized on their own man advantage at 11:38 when Konnor Haas scored his first goal of the season to tie the game up at one.
 
Neither team was able to do much in the final period or the overtime, so the game headed to a shootout where Anthony Conti scored the lone goal to give the Hawks the win.
 
Richard was solid in net, stopping 37 of 28 shots faced.
 
UP NEXT
Windsor will return home to South Windsor Arena next weekend when they host the Ryerson Rams at 7:30pm on Friday November 17th, and the York Lions at 4:00pm on Saturday November 18th. Both games can be seen live at www.oua.tv.