Donoso stops 39 as Lancers blank Gryphons

The Windsor Lancers tightened things up in the OUA West race with a 4–0 win over the Guelph Gryphons, powered by a stellar 39-save shutout from goaltender Max Donoso.

Windsor did all its damage in the first period. Colton Smith opened the scoring just 1:12 in off a feed a cross crease pass from Ty Toews. Toews With the teams playing 4-on-4, Keegan McMullen picked up the puck along the boards, broke in and fed a perfect backdoor pass to Toews to make it 2-0 at 5:11. Noah Szabo pushed the lead to 3–0 at 12:37 with a one-time courtesy of a pass from Matt McNamara who assisted on all three goals in the opening frame.

The Lancers held firm the rest of the way with Keegan McMullen sealing the win with an empty-netter late in the third.

The victory moves Windsor to 7–4 and in 4th place in the OUA West standings, two points behind Guelph and Lakehead (17 points) for second and four points out of first (Laurier, 19 points).

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