Boxscore

The Western Mustangs rode a four-goal second period to defeat the Waterloo Warriors 5-1 on Friday night at the Thompson Arena in London.

With the win, the No. 3 CIS-ranked Mustangs improved to 20-2-3 on the season and a perfect 12-0-0 at home. The Warriors, meanwhile, fell to 14-8-3, but remain in third place in the OUA West division – which Western clinched with a victory over Lakehead last weekend.

Despite controlling much of the play and outshooting Waterloo 19-9 in the opening period, the Mustangs went to the dressing room trailing 1-0 after the first. Tyler Moir (Calgary/) got the Warriors on the board first with his 10th goal of the season at the 8:58 mark.

The Mustangs quickly responded in the second, as Tyler Peters put the home side on the board just under two minutes into the period with a point shot that beat Waterloo goalie Keaton Hartigan (Kitchener/). Peters then scored his 14th of the year, a power play marker on a wrist shot from the point at 10:52 to put Western ahead 2-1.

Six minutes later, Steve Reese took a nifty pass from Zach Harnden during a power play and beat Hartigan on the doorstep for his 11th of the season. Before the period was out, Yashar Farmanara notched Western's third power play goal of the period on a wrist shot at 19:41 to put the Mustangs up 4-1.

Despite plenty of chances for both teams in the third, Geoff Killing scored the period's lone goal when he snuck a point shot past Hartigan, who appeared to lose sight of the puck. Harnden earned his third assist of the night on the goal, which was Killing's first of the year.

Hartigan was the busier of the two goalies stopping 38 of 43 shots faced while Josh Unice continued his hot streak allowing just one goal on 26 shots.

The Warriors have the rest of the week off before entering into their last weekend of action on Friday against Laurier at home and Saturday at Windsor.