No.9 Lancers dominate Varsity Blues

Box Score The No. 9 Lancer men's hockey team earned their fifth straight victory with a 10-3 win over the visiting Toronto Varsity Blues on Saturday night at South Windsor Arena.
 
With the victory, the Lancers are 5-0-0- on the year and are in sole possession of first place in the OUA west division.
 
Thirteen Lancers make it onto the game sheet and Spencer Pommells once again led the Blue & Gold with another four point night that included a goal and three assists. Rookie Scott Prier finished the game with two goals and an assist.
 
The Lancers opened the game up right away with Daulton Siwak scoring just three minutes into the contest. Nearly three minutes later, Scott Prier scored the Lancers second goal unassisted, and just over a minute after that Chad Shepley accepted a gorgeous pass from captain Drew Palmer to put the Lancers up by three.
 
After Pommells scored to make it 4-0, Toronto's frustration began to show landing Jeff Brown and Windsor's Isak Quakenbush in the box for 10 minutes each. Brown received an additional two minutes to put the Lancers on the power play. Just eleven seconds with the extra man, Palmer put the Lancers up 5-0 heading into the first intermission.  
 
Toronto goalie Garrett Sheehan replaced Brett Willows to start the second, and the changed seemed to spark the Varsity Blues as they scored just two minutes into the period with a power play goal from Michael Markovic.
 
The teams continued to trade goals throughout the period and Windsor held a 7-2 lead heading into the final frame. Lancer goal scorers included Matt Beaudoin and Prier with his second of the game. Toronto's second goal came unassisted by Marcus Yolevski.
 
The second period was littered with penalties on both sides as Toronto picked up 27 penalty minutes and 2 game misconducts while the Lancers had 16 penalty minutes. 
 
The Lancers kept their cool after some rough play from Toronto and added three goals in the final period from Mike Christou, Saverio Posa, and Dylan Seguin. The Varsity Blues Tyler Liukkonen put one past Murphy in the third period to end the game 10-3 in favour of Windsor.
 
Lancer goaltenders Parker Van Buskirk and Matt Murphy each saw the ice in the win. Van Buskirk turned aside 9 saves in the game, while Murphy kept out 13 others after the switch.
 
The Lancers will head up to Thunder Bay next weekend for a pair of games against the Lakehead Thunderwolves. Windsor returns home on Halloween weekend for a weekend series against the RMC Paladins.