OUA M-HOCKEY ROUNDUP: NO. 9 GOLDEN HAWKS LOSE BATTLE OF WATERLOO IN OT
Waterloo improves to 12-5-1 while the Hawks fall to 12-4-2 on the season.
Laurier used their league leading power play to score all four of their goals. Laurier's Clinton Pettapiece (Christina Lake, B.C.) opened the scoring in the game before the Warriors took the wind out of the home team's sails with a shorthanded marker. Ten seconds later the visitors would strike again with a goal from Cory Fraser (Pictou, N.S.), who took a stretch pass after exiting the penalty box and beat Hawk netminder Ryan Daniels (Pickering, Ont.).
The second frame was a sloppy affair for both teams with several majors handed out. Waterloo's Steve Whitley (Petrolia, Ont.) and Hill scored to make it 4-1 for the visitors. After the fourth marker, Laurier head coach Kelly Nobes opted to pull Daniels in favour of Jeff MacDougald (Shallow Lake, Ont.). The Hawks got right back into it with back-to-back power-play goals from Craig Voakes (St. Thomas, Ont.) and Jeff Borrows (London, Ont.).
Paul Bradley (Calgary) scored Laurier's final goal on a nice shot that picked the upper right-hand corner of the net.
The match saw the continuation of Ryan Bellows (St. Catharines, Ont.) 10 game point streak as he picked up two assists in the loss. Team Captain Jean-Michell Rizk's (Dunham, Que.) point streak came to an end after 10 games.
The Warriors outshot the home team 40-35.
Laurier is next in action on Friday when they take on the Brock Badgers at 7:35 p.m. in St. Catharines, Ont.
YORK 2, UOIT 1
At York, the host Lions scored a pair of goals in the second period and held on to defeat the UOIT Ridgebacks 2-1.
York improves to 9-8-1 on the season, while UOIT falls to 6-10-1.
Left winger Chris Jones opened the scoring just past the midway mark of regulation, his seventh goal of the OUA season. A short time later, Mackenzie Micks scored what turned out to be the game winner on the power play. Nathaniel Brooks set up both York markers.
UOIT defenceman T.J. Legge scored his first goal of the season 11:19 into the third period, but it was as close as the Ridgebacks would get in this contest.
David Davenport earned the win in net stopping 32 of 33 shots.
Source: Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks with files from OUA Communications