Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Sometimes in sports a controversy is a good thing and for the Waterloo women's hockey team that proves to be the case as the battle for the number one goalie position continues.

Rebecca Bouwhuis (Orillia) took over between the pipes this weekend and the veteran netminder did not disappoint stopping 52 of 55 shots faced in back-to-back wins over Laurentian and Nipissing on the road.

Bouwhuis has seen her playtime reduced, not due to performance but the play of her counterpart Stephanie Sluys (Clinton) who has five shutouts this season including a stretch of three in five games back in November.  That hasn't stopped Bouwhuis from remaining focused and when she got the nod this weekend in a pair of must-win games, the former CIS all-rookie team member stood tall and picked up four points for her team.

In Saturday's contest with the Laurentian Voyageurs, it was the captain Kaitlyn McDonell (Kincardine) who provided the late game heroics, netting her fifth goal of the season with just 33 seconds remaining to even the score at 1-apiece sending the game to overtime. 

The extra frame would solve nothing and the game headed to a shootout, Waterloo's fourth of the season.  McDonnell would again score as the third shooter to extend the shootout setting up Siobhan Hewitt-Kenda (North Vancouver) as the hero scoring in the eighth round to secure the 2-1 win for the black and gold.  Bouwhuis was stellar in the win stopping 28 of 29 shots and seven of eight shootout attempts. 

In Sunday's game against Nipissing, Bouwhuis again got the call in net and got support early and often as Waterloo spotted the fourth year goalie a 5-0 lead.  Rachel Marriott (Waterloo) led the way with a hat trick to bring her goal total to eight on the season.  Linemate Carolyn Burke (Mississauga) assisted on each of Marriott's goals as the chemistry between the two continues to build.

The other two markers came from rookie defenceman Angela MacDonald (Kitchener) who tallied her fifth of the season and Hewitt-Kenda, also her fifth on the year.  Nipissing would slip two past Bouwhuis late in the final period but Waterloo had more than enough offence to win the game 5-2.  Bouwhuis made 24 saves in the win.

With the victories, Waterloo moved two games above .500 with an 8-6-3 record good for eighth spot in the OUA standings with 19 points.  The Warriors will be back in action on Wednesday in Ryerson at 7:30pm.