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The Warrior men's hockey team scored four unanswered goals on Friday evening to defeat the York Lions 4-1. Rookie netminder
Justin Leclerc (Saskatoon, Sask.) remain undefeated on the season (3-0) stopping 24 of 25 shots faced. York goalie David Blair (Ajax, Ont.) stopped 24 of 28 shots in the loss.
The Lions opened the scoring in the first period as Chad Hohmann (Salmon Arm, B.C.) ripped a shot from the high slot past Leclerc. The play was set up beautifully by Rob Labute (Toronto, Ont.) who found Hohmann wide open. Adam Stuart of Calgary picked up the second assist. York showed some good penalty killing skills as they would kill off a Warrior 5 on 3 power play and head into the locker room up by one.
The Warriors found their legs in the second and evened the game up just over one minute into the period as
Josh Schappert (Winnipeg, Man.) picked up a rebound and slipped it past Blair on the backhand for his second goal of the season.
Kurt Thorner (St. Thomas, Ont.) would put Waterloo up 2-1 seven minutes later on the penalty kill.
Mike Veysey (Bedford, N.S.) chipped the puck past the Lions defender and slid a beautiful pass over to Thorner who made no mistake to put the Warriors in front.
Waterloo would add to their lead two minutes later as captain
Chris Ray (Kelowna, B.C.) who made his return to the line up after missing the last five games scored his third goal of the season on the power play. After some nice puck movement, Ray fired a shot from the slot and the puck found its way through the screen past Blair to give Waterloo a 3-1 lead.
Waterloo played sound defence in the third shutting down the Lions and added a late goal with only six seconds left on the power play . Defenceman
Steve Whitely (Petrolia, Ont.) fed a nice pass from behind the net out front to
Aaron Lewicki (Toronto, Ont.) who made no mistake to give Waterloo the 4-1 victory.
Waterloo (5-4-0) travel to London today to take on the undefeated Western Mustangs at the Thompson Arena. Puck drop is set for 7:30 pm.
