Friday, November 26 @ RMC
Waterloo 4, RMC 3
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Waterloo won their fifth straight game defeating the winless RMC Paladins by the slimmest of margins 4-3 on Friday night in Kingston, Ont. The Warriors scored four consecutive goals in a span of eight minutes and held on to win their 10th game of the season.
The Paladins opened the scoring four minutes into the game as the top two scorers on the RMC roster connected to put their team up by one. Richard Lim (Calgary, Alta.), put his fifth goal of the season behind Warrior netminder Justin Leclerc (Saskatoon, Sask.) off a nice pass from Patrick Pinder (Calgary, Alta.) who leads the team with 16 points (10g, 6a).
Waterloo responded late in the first period with Kirt Hill (Winnipeg, Man.) scoring his fourth goal of the season shorthanded. Before the period was up, the Warriors would take the lead on the powerplay as Josh Schappert (Winnipeg, Man.) would snipe his eighth of the year to put the black and gold up by one heading into the second period.
Steve Whitely (Petrolia, Ont.) and Kurt Thorner (St. Thomas, Ont.) would continue the offensive burst for Waterloo scoring 36 seconds apart to give Waterloo a comfortable 4-1 lead. Chris Ray (Kelowna, B.C.) would extend his point streak to 10 games picking up an assist on the Whitely goal.
The Warriors would sit back on their lead a little too early as RMC would fight back and score two third period goals with Landon Lavictoire (Kirkland Lake, Ont.) and Justin Lacey (Sudbury, Ont.) scoring to put their Paladins back in the game, but Leclerc would come up big to stop their comeback efforts and preserve the win for the Warriors.
Leclerc stopped 25 of 28 shots for his fourth win of the season while Paladins goalie Andrew Flemming let in four goals on 21 shots faced.
Waterloo look to keep their win streak alive as they face the Queen's Gaels tomorrow night to wrap up their interlock play.
Saturday, November 27 @ Queen's
Waterloo 4, Queen's 3 (OT)
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The Queen's Gaels gave up two straight goals in the third period and the game winning goal in overtime as they fell 4-3 to the Waterloo Warriors in OUA men's hockey action on Saturday.
Defenceman Kyle Sonnenburg (pictured left) of Waterloo, Ont., was the hero for Waterloo scoring the game tying and game winner to hand the Warriors their 10th win of the season.
Queen's looked to have the game in hand holding a 3-1 lead heading into the final five minutes of the, however Jarrett Schnurr (Waterloo, Ont.) of Waterloo, Ont., netted a shorthanded goal with 4:04 remaining making the score 3-2. That was Schnurr's seventh goal of the season and on the goal Chris Ray (Kelowna/) added an assist to extend his point streak to 11 games. He leads his team with 19 points (5g, 14a).
Sonnernburg scored a power play marker to tie the game with 1:07 remaining in the third and then notched the game winner just three minutes into the overtime frame.
Scott Kenway of Calgary opened the scoring for the Gaels in the first period netting his team leading eighth goal of the season
Joey Derochie of Sudbury, Ont., and Jordon Mirwaldt of Winnipeg, Man., recorded Queen's next two goals in the first 10 minutes of the third period handing what looked like a safe 3-1 lead. Derochie's goal came shorthanded.
Waterloo's Tyler Moir of Calgary would score the only goal in the second period. He would also add a lone assist on the game tying goal in the third. Moir had a solid four point weekend with one goal and three assists and sits third in team scoring with 14 points (5 g, 11a).
Queen's David Aime of Clandeboye, Man., faced 43 shots in the game turning aside 39, while Keaton Hartigan of Kitchener, Ont., made 35 saves on 38 shots for the win.
The win gives Waterloo their sixth straight win and improves their record to 11-5-0 on the season, good for third place in the OUA west, one point behind second place Lakehead and five behind first place Western. The loss was the sixth straight for Queen's whose record fell to 5-8-1.
Waterloo's final game of the 2010 calendar year is set for next Friday against Brock (6-4-5) in St. Catharines, Ont., with the puck dropping at 7:15 pm. Following the Christmas break, the black and gold host the Guelph Gryphons (8-5-2) at the CIF arena on Saturday, January 8 at 7:30 pm.
