Men's hockey fall to .500

Lose 5-3 to Mustangs

The Warriors lost their third game of the season to the Western Mustangs on Saturday night in London as the Warriors lost by a score of 5-3.

Three first period Mustang goals lifted Western to the victory, as the purple squad (8-0-1) remains undefeated at home with four straight wins. Waterloo goalie Justin Leclerc (Saskatoon, Sask.) made 33 stops on the night while Anthony Grieco (Brampton, Ont.) stood tall for the Mustangs making 38 saves on 41 shots.

Jason Swit (Mississauga, Ont.) opened the scoring with his first goal of the season after receiving a beautiful pass from Geoff Killing (Embro, Ont.). Swit fired the shot past a screened Leclerc who was making his second straight start for the Warriors.

Steve Reese (Dorchester, Ont.) added to the Mustangs lead picking up a rebound goal on the powerplay; his fifth goal of the season. Kevin Baker (Georgetown, Ont.) would extend the lead midway through the first period notching his fifth goal of the year as he was sprung free on a breakaway and made no mistake firing the shot over the shoulder of Leclerc giving the Mustangs a comfortable 3-0 lead heading into the second period.

The Mustangs got on the board once again early in the second period as hometown boy Adam McKee (London, Ont.) scored the fourth goal of the game for Western off a beautiful pass from Randy Hanagan (London, Ont.)

Waterloo would cut into the lead half way through the second period with Mike Veysey (Bedford, N.S.) putting one past Grieco for his first goal of the season on the backhand making the score 4-1 in favour of Western.

Western would deflate any hope of Waterloo mounting a comeback as Aaron Snow would put in his sixth goal of the season. Waterloo would add two late goals off the stick of Jarrett Schnurr (Waterloo, Ont.), his sixth of the season and Steve Whitely (Petrolia, Ont.), his third but it was too little too late as Waterloo would fall to .500 on the season and now sit tied for fourth place with Guelph in the OUA west division.

Waterloo (5-5-0) take on cross-town rivals Laurier Golden Hawks on Thursday night at the Waterloo Recreation Complex and return home for a match up with the Brock Badgers on Friday, November 12 at 7:30 pm as part of Think Pink weekend at Waterloo.

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