The Lancer men's hockey team continued their weekend road trip on Saturday and faced off against the Brock Badgers at the Canada Games Park. This was the third time in four games the two squads took to the ice, and unlike the first two outings, the Lancers came out on the losing end of the contest with a 7-4 loss.
 
The loss moves the blue and gold to 15-5-3 on the season while the Badgers move to 14-7-0 overall.
 
STATS
Lancer goal scorers included Anthony Stefano, Brady Pataki, Matt McNamara, and Nolan Gardiner. Nathan Torchia stopped 20 shots that came his way out of 24 pucks fired towards the Lancer netminder in the loss. Dakota Lund-Cornish also saved 4 out of 6 shots.
 
The hosts were led by Frank Pucci with two goals, and in the net Mario Peccia made 13 out of 17 saves.

GAME FLOW
In the opening period Torchia was put to the test early as Brock forward Adam Berg went on a breakaway in attempt to strike first, however, Torchia was up to the task and turned the puck aside. It was Frank Pucci who would put the Badgers up first at 11: 25. Four minutes later with the Lancers killing a penalty, Anthony Stefano stepped on the gas towards Brock goalie Mario Peccia and scored a shorthanded goal to tie the game. The deadlock wouldn't last long as the Badgers scored just a minute later to take a 2-1 lead heading into the intermission.
 
The second period was controlled by the Badger and Johnathon Schaefer scored his first goal of the season to make it 3-1 in favour of the hosts. Shortly after, Lund-Cornish made his way into the net for Torchia for a quick change. Brady Pataki was able to find his way past Peccia to help trim to deficit to 3-2. However, the Badgers' added two goals in the second half of the period to lead 5-2 after forty minutes.
 
The Badgers would continue to add to their lead in the third early in the period with Berg's second goal of the game just over a minute into the frame. Less than a minute later, Matt McNamara cut the Badgers lead to three. Lancer head coach Kevin Hamlin pulled the goaltender in favour of an extra attacker, but the Badgers capitalized on the empty net to score their final goal. Nolan Gardiner closed out the scoring late in the period on the power play.
 
UP NEXT
The Lancers will now return home to Windsor to face the Guelph Gryphons on Friday, January 27th at 7:30 pm. You can follow our Twitter for live updates of the game or purchase tickets online at goLancers.ca/tickets. The game will also be streamed live at oua.tv.