Box Score The Cinderella Waterloo Warriors had every intention of turning their glass slipper into the Queen's crown. But the UQTR Patriotes had other ideas.

OUA East MVP Felix Petit had three points, and Les Patriots used goals in the first and last minutes of the second period to power past the Warriors 4-1 and claim the Queen's Cup OUA Championship on Saturday night in Waterloo.

Tommy Tremblay added a goal and an assist, and Marc-Antoine Gelinas made 32 saves to lift Les Patriotes to their ninth Queen's Cup title. Colin Behenna (Waterloo/) scored Waterloo's only goal, and fifth-year veteran Keaton Hartigan (Kitchener/) turned away 31 shots in the final home game of his CIS career.

At the drop of the puck, the capacity crowd at Waterloo's Columbia Icefield arena was on edge and, evidently, so too were the combatants on the ice. Both clubs seemed tentative and perhaps a little nervous in the opening minutes, and it led to a fragmented game in the first period.

The later stages of the opening frame featured a number of good chances, though. On UQTR's only power play of the night, Hartigan sprawled in the splits to make a highlight-reel rebound save on Olivier Donovan. Later, Matt Amadio (Sault Ste. Marie/) was stymied by a Gelinas poke check on a partial break, and Justin Larson (Buckhorn/) hit the goal post on an Andy Smith (Rosetown/) rebound, as the game remained scoreless through 20 minutes.

Les Patriotes didn't take long to break the tie in the second period, as Tremblay took a trailing pass on the rush and buried a wrister over Hartigan's glove to give UQTR the lead only 59 seconds into the second.

Both teams once again clamped down, as chances were hard to come by after UQTR went up 1-0. With only a minute remaining and the Warriors looking to maintain just a one-goal deficit heading into the intermission, a blocked Billy Lacasse shot fell right on the stick of Petit, who backhanded it over a sprawling Hartigan to give Les Patriotes a 2-0 lead after 40 minutes.

Les Patriotes extended their lead to three early in the third, when Chrisophe Tremblay-Losier dragged the puck through the high slot and zipped a shot under the crossbar before the period was two minutes old.

Behenna responded for Waterloo, when he took the Kirt Hill feed on the left wing and fired a gorgeous short-side shot over Gelinas' glovehand to cut the lead to 3-1 with just over 13 minutes to play. The Behenna goal ignited the crowd, but a wise timeout by UQTR bench boss Gilles Bouchard immediately following the goal helped settle his troops. Waterloo wasn't able to muster another goal, and Pierre-Olivier Morin salted the game away with an empty netter late.

Both clubs will now shift their focus to the University Cup CIS championship tournament, starting on March 14 in Saskatoon. By virtue of their Queen's cup victory, UQTR will be a top-3 seed at the 6-team tournament, which also features UNB, Alberta, St. Mary's, and Saskatchewan. The CIS will announce seedings and schedule early this week.

Notes: Members of the Warriors 1974 CIAU championship team and the 1996 Queen's Cup championship team took part in the ceremonial faceoff before the game…Waterloo's last Queen's Cup appearance in 1996 was also against UQTR, in which they defeated Les Patriotes 5-1…this will be UQTR's second straight appearance at the University Cup.