Box Score Story By: Martin Timmerman

The Waterloo Warriors hosted their first home game in over four weeks and defeated the Nipissing Lakers 91-64 on Friday night. It was Waterloo's first win after a losing streak of seven games and improves their record to 4-13 in the OUA West. Nipissing is winless in 16 games in their first OUA season.
 
Waterloo started quickly, with an 11-1 lead after just over three minutes played. By the first quarter mark Waterloo was up 26-11. Nipissing kept pace with Waterloo in the second quarter with a late flurry and the half time score was 42-28 in favour of Waterloo. At half time the Waterloo stat line showed no turnovers.
 
Waterloo regained their offensive focus to start the second half and quickly had a lead of 20+ points. Waterloo's largest lead was 30 points at one point in the fourth. The Warriors had both a rebounding and shooting edge as they had 17 offensive rebounds and an overall 39-32 advantage. The Warriors held Nipissing to just 3 of 19 shooting from long range.
 
Myles Charvis (Mississauga) led all scorers with 28 points while adding 7 rebounds and 4 assists. Charvis is now sixth in OUA scoring with 19.8 points per game and fifth in OUA in assists. Jaspreet Gill (Oliver) added 19 points for the Warriors. Mike Pereira (Waterloo) had a career best scoring night with 17 points. Muhammad Anwar (Mississauga) also had a career best of 9 points with 13 minutes on the court.
 
Nipissing had only a a single player in double figures as Jerron Rhodes had 17 points and 9 rebounds.
 
The next game for Waterloo is Saturday night as they host the Laurentian Voyageurs. Game time is 8:00pm at the PAC. Laurentian has a 7-9 record and defeated Wilfrid Laurier on Friday.