WATERLOO, Ont. - The Western Mustangs won their 13th straight game defeating the Waterloo Warriors 5-3 at Columbia Ice Field on Nov. 28 in a battle for first place in the OUA.

Western improves to 13-2 on the season. 

Aaron Snow (Windsor, Ont.) and Kyle Lamb (Port Coquitlam, B.C.) scored two goals each, while Yashar Farmanara (West Vancouver, B.C.) scored once for Western.

After Snow opened the scoring midway through the period, Lamb made it 2-0 capitalizing on a Luke Turcotte turnover a minute later.

Goaltender Anthony Grieco (Brampton, Ont.), who played the first period and allowed no goals making 15 saves for the win, robbed Warrior Steve Whitely twice on a Waterloo powerplay with Trevor Koverko (Toronto) in the box. 

Keyvan Hunt (Coquitlam, B.C.) came in to play goal to start the second period and made 16 saves on 19 shots in relief to preserve the victory.

Western surrenederd their first goal while enjoying a five-on-three man advantage, as Shane Hart created a turnover from Ryan Martinelli's (London, Ont.) giveaway at centre ice, setting up Chris Ray's shorthanded goal which made it 2-1 for Western. 

Still at five-on-three, Farmanara almost immediately restored the two goal lead to make it 3-1, after being set up by Geoff Killing (Embro, Ont.).

Ray nearly scored his fifth shorthanded goal of the night, and second of the evening, off another Western powerplay turnover, this time on a five-on-four advantage, but Hunt bailed out the team with a good save, closing the five-hole with just over six minutes left in the second period.

Western led 3-1 after two periods with Hunt making 11 saves on 12 shots.

The Mustangs, which have not lost this year after leading after the first or second period (8-0 and 9-0 records respectively), received a score five seconds into the third period.

Forward Mike Sharp (Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) took a late second-period crosschecking penalty, so Western was shorthanded to start the period and Waterloo's Kurt Thomer scored five seconds in, firing the puck over Hunt's right shoulder to pull Waterloo within one goal at 3-2.

It would be Waterloo's only goal on eight powerplay opportunities.

With 12:13 left in the game, Western rebounded as Lamb scored his second of game, putting home a rebound after a Martinelli point shot which gave Warriors' goalie Keaton Hartigan difficulty.

Snow notched his second to make it 5-2 a couple of minutes later and Ray scored his second goal of the game for Waterloo to make it 5-3 with 12 seconds left, but it was too late.

Western hosts the Windsor Lancers on Thursday Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Thompson Arena.