Box Score LONDON, Ont. – Josh Unice made 35 saves and the Mustangs held off a furious third-period comeback from the Waterloo Warriors on Saturday to walk away with a 5-4 victory at Thompson Arena.
 
"I thought we did some real good things in the third but unfortunately they kept coming back and when you have a good team you can never back off," said Mustangs head coach Clarke Singer after the game. "I think if there's one thing maybe we just backed off the gas pedal a little bit on them and allowed them to get the little bit extra on us in the third."
 
Western entered the final frame up 4-2 and looked to put the game out of reach with an early goal from Matt Clarke but the Warriors were intent on fighting until the end. Tallies from Colin Behenna and Chris Chappell in the second half of the third put Waterloo within two and made for a thrilling final minute but in the end the Mustangs were able to hold on for the win.
 
Behenna and Chappell provided a large share of the offence for the Warriors on the night as the two combined for seven points. Behenna brought his season point total up to six while Chappell's third period goal gave the rookie forward his first career OUA hat trick and his eighth point of the young season.
 
Despite allowing the Warriors to climb back into the game in the third, Singer was mostly optimistic about what he saw from his team on Saturday night.
 
"It was a big two points for us and we played with a pulse tonight," Singer said. "I thought the other night in Toronto we didn't have a lot of giddy-up, not a lot of jump in our step, but I thought tonight we played with some intensity."
 
The game started out as good as the Mustangs could have hoped for with Daniel Erlich notching his second goal of the season ten minutes in and Stefan Salituro adding Western's second with 41 seconds left in the frame.  
 
Their fortune seemed doom to change in the second as they entered the second frame down two men and appeared to give up a goal only 29 seconds in. But the goal was called off due to a dislodged net and, energized by their lucky break, the Mustangs managed to kill of the rest of the five-on-three.
 
The kill turned out to be huge for the Mustangs as five minutes later they added their third goal of the game off the stick of Kyle De Coste followed quickly by a goal from Adam Stoykewych. The two goals came 21 seconds a part and gave the Mustangs some breathing room in what had been a back-and-forth affair, breathing room that came in handy when the Warriors scored two goals in the second half of the period to cut the lead in half.
 
The Mustangs will take the two points and look ahead to their next game, a Halloween night tilt against Laurier this Thursday at Sun Life Financial Arena in Waterloo. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.