Game Summary
The Waterloo Warriors dropped their first game of the season losing to the Carleton Ravens 6-2 on Saturday night at the Ice House in Ottawa.
With the loss Waterloo dropped to 3-1-0 on the season while Carleton improved to 2-2-0 with two big weekend victories.
After outplaying the Warriors in the first period, the Ravens got two goals in the final 90 seconds to jump to a 2-0 lead.
The Warriors narrowed the gap to 2-1 less than a minute into the second and threatened to tie the game on the power play after MacLean took a high sticking penalty. The Ravens penalty kill was spectacular however, and a great effort from Connor Barrett (Ottawa) led to a shorthanded goal to put the Ravens up by two goals
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The Ravens then scored twice on the power play, lifting them out of an early season 1-24 slump.
Tensions flared in the third, but strong defence and sturdy goaltending let the Ravens take the convincing 6-2 win to improve their record to 2-2 on the year.
Scoring for the Warriors was
Blake Chartier (Winnipeg/) with his second of the season and
Josh Schappert (Winnipeg/) with his fourth. Schappert also added an assist giving him 11 points on the season (4g, 7a) which leads the OUA.
Starting goalie
Justin Leclerc (Saskatoon/) allowed six goals on 28 shots while
Keaton Hartigan (Kitchener/) relieved Leclerc in the third period stopping all three shots faced.
The Warriors return to action on Thursday, October 20 in Windsor to face the Lancers before a week off from OUA action where they will travel to Connecticut and Rhode Island to face Yale and Brown University on Saturday, October 22 and Sunday, October 23.