Box Score The Waterloo Warriors were in desperate need of a lift. Their captain came back just in time to give them one.

Joe Underwood (Canton/) had a goal and an assist in his return from injury, and the potent Waterloo power play cashed twice in a span of 1:47 as the Warriors topped the Brock Badgers 4-2 at the Columbia Icefield Arena on Friday night.

Colin Behenna (Waterloo/) added a goal and assist of his own, and Justin Larson (Buckhorn/) pitched in with a pair of assists as Waterloo (11-11-3) pulled to within two points of Brock for the OUA West's eighth and final playoff spot. The crammed standings feature a total of five teams within three points of one another, with only three games remaining.

The Badgers (12-10-3) got goals from Dylan MacEachern and Andrew Radjenovic in the loss. Justin Leclerc (Saskatoon/) made 30 saves in the win between the pipes for Waterloo, while Real Cormier kicked aside 33 shots in the loss for the Badgers.

After a scoreless first period, the Badgers got on the board early in the second when MacEachern beat Leclerc less than five minutes into the frame. Waterloo's Josh Woolley (Cambridge/) tied things up moments later, before The Badgers found penalty trouble late in the period - trouble which would prove to be the turning point of the game.

With less than five minutes to play in the middle stanza, Brock's Kaine Geldart took a four-minute spearing penalty, followed just a minute later by a Josh Schram hooking call. Underwood wasted no time with the two-man advantage, scoring just four seconds into the 5-on-3 to go up 2-1. On the second half of the Geldart double-minor, Behenna added another power play marker to put Waterloo up 3-1 after forty minutes.

The Badgers pushed back in the third and drew to within one when Radjenovic put one past Leclerc with just over three minutes to play. But Jarred Parent (West Montrose/) salted the game away with and empty-netter to make the final 4-2 Waterloo.

The Warriors will now turn their attention to yet another huge game, when they face 7th-place Guelph on Saturday night. Puck drop is slated for 6:30 PM at the Columbia Icefield Arena.

Notes: The Warriors went 2-for-4 on the power play, while Brock went 0-for-3...Warriors forward Chris Chappell (Pickering/), who returned from injury last week, once again sat out for Waterloo...this was Larson's 11th multi-point game of the season.