Box Score The good news is that the Waterloo Warriors scored six goals in a game for the third time in four contests. The bad news is that, on Saturday night in Oshawa, they needed seven.

The UOIT Ridgebacks got goals from six different players, and erased three different one-goal deficits in a wild 7-6 win over the Warriors on Saturday night at the Campus Ice Center in Oshawa.

The Warriors got plenty of production from their big guns, as Colin Behenna (Waterloo/) registered a goal and four assists, while Justin Larson (Buckhorn/) notched a goal and three helpers. Ridgebacks forward Tony Rizzi scored twice and added an assist to lead the way for UOIT.

It was not a night for either team's goaltenders to remember, as the game featured 13 goals on just 55 combined shots. All four netminders saw action, but Jacob Rattie earned the win for the Ridgebacks, making 17 saves in the final two periods of action. Justin Leclerc (Saskatoon/) made 13 saves, and took the loss in relief of Warriors' starter Keaton Hartigan (Kitchener/).

The Warriors knew they were in for a long night during a wild first period, as they lost three leads in the opening 20 minutes alone. Kain Allicock (Markham/) opened up the scoring under two minutes in on the power play, before Mike Whiteside beat Hartigan to square the game at 1 just over two minutes later.

Behenna put the Warriors back in front when he converted a Larson pass just short of the 10-minute mark, but the Ridgebacks responded immediately once again when Matt Pasztor ripped a point shot home on the power play just 24 seconds later. Larson scored to make it 3-2 Warriors with just over two minutes to play in the period, but Rizzi responded with just 10 seconds remaining in the period to make the score 3-3 after one.

Rattie replaced Bryce O'Hagen in the Ridgebacks net to start the second period, and it was just the boost the home team needed. Jesse Stoughton scored at the 1:06 mark of the second to give the Ridgebacks their first lead, chasing Hartigan in the process. Brendan Wise put UOIT up 5-3 at the midway mark of the period, but the Warriors stormed back with two goals in just 12 seconds to equalize. First, Joe Underwood (Canton/) beat Rattie at the 13:02 mark, before Micky Sartoretto (Sault Ste. Marie/) notched his second of the season at 13:14 to make it 5-5.

It looked like the game might get to the final stanza knotted up, but Rizzi struck again in the late stages of the second to put the Ridgebacks up 6-5 after 40 minutes. In the third, Luke VanMoerkerke beat Leclerc to give UOIT a 2-goal lead, and Underwood completed the scoring with a goal in the waning seconds to make the final 7-6.

Sitting in sixth place in the OUA West division with just four games remaining, the Warriors will now embark on one of the most difficult portions of their schedule to close out the regular season. Next weekend, they'll travel to Thunder Bay to take on the Lakehead Thunderwolves in back-to-back games, before returning home in the season's final weekend to host the Windsor Lancers and the Thunderwolves again.

Notes: The Warriors went 2-for-6 on the man advantage, while the Ridgebacks went 1-for-4…Larson now leads the CIS scoring race with 38 points…the Ridgebacks pulled into a tie for the eighth and final playoff spot with Brock.