GUELPH, Ont. - All night long the fans at the Gryphon Centre were left guessing who was going to come away with a Wednesday night victory. In an exciting, back-and-forth contest, it was ultimately the visiting Waterloo Warriors sneaking away with a 5-4 overtime victory over the No. 5-nationally ranked Guelph Gryphons.
Returning home to the Guelph campus after a pair of weekend games in Ottawa against other top-10 schools, the Gryphons got a pair of goals from their captain (Mikkel Aagaard) but it was not quite enough in the end.
In the beginning, it was the visiting Warriors who were able to get on the board first. 
Only :19 seconds into the contest Jack Scanlan deflected home a pass to give Waterloo a 1-0 advantage. Despite falling behind early, the Gryphons came back strong throughout the rest of the opening frame. Putting tons of pressure on the Warrior's defence, the Gryphons were able to break through on the power play. With 3:40 to play in the first period, Justin Lemcke wired a point shot that wrung the iron, but sitting on the doorstep was Marc Stevens who calmly tapped it in to tie the game 1-1. Then shortly after, the Gryphons offence got another chance with the man advantage and again made the most of it. Guelph captain Mikkel Aagaard put home his 6th goal of the season and the Gryphons took a 2-1 lead into the dressing room.
In the middle frame, neither team was able to do much offensively until the late stages of the period when it was Waterloo's opportunity to take advantage of some power play time. 
With a 5-on-3 advantage, the Warriors were able to tie the game, and then scored again just 30 seconds later on the 5-on-4, and all of sudden the visitors led 3-2 after two periods.
Then once the final frame of regulation rolled around, the back-and-forth play continued. Still trailing by one, it was the Gryphon's captain lifting his team up again. Approaching the midway point of the 3rd period, Aagaard jumped on a loose puck on top of the crease and dangled around Warrior's goalie Julian Sime to tie the game 3-3. Things really began to tick upwards for Guelph when their dangerous power play got another opportunity late. With just 2:52 left in regulation, the Gryphons went back to the man-advantage where Todd Winder deflected home his 5th goal in his last four games to give Guelph a 4-3 lead with 2:12 to play. However, the Warriors would come back to tie the game again with just over a minute left in the 3rd, before going on to win the game in overtime.
"We didn't think that we played a great game overall, but we played well in parts," said Gryphon head coach
Shawn Camp. "Our power play was very good tonight giving us three goals, which was huge. There are still things to learn for us with our youthful exuberance, but still being able to get a point was huge. We believe that this group has the potential to be a team that can go a long way in the playoffs, but right now we are just looking to take those early season baby steps and get to a point where we are playing consistently game in and game out. Once we get there then we think we will see the team that we know we have."
The Gryphons outshot the Warriors in the contest 44-31, with goalie Andrew Masters making 26 saves in the loss. Aagaard led the way for Guelph with three points, while six other Gryphons tallied a single point Wednesday night.
Now with a 4-1-2 record this season, the Gryphons will get ready for a Saturday trip to Waterloo to take on the Laurier Golden Hawks. After that, the Gryphons will return home to host the Nipissing Lakers on November 2nd.
