Box Score As the Nipissing Lakers men's hockey team continue to play some very good hockey down the stretch, they face an important part of their schedule.

Battling the Ontario Tech Ridgebacks for second spot in the East Division, the two teams matched up Friday night.

Entering the contest with a 4-0-1 record in their past five, the Lakers picked up a huge come-from-behind 4-3 victory.

The Ridgebacks opened up the scoring with the lone goal of the first period and entered the intermission up a goal.

They would go up 2-0 early in the second period, just 2:10 in, but the Lakers would answer shortly after.

Devyn Mayea got Nipissing on the board, scoring his third of the season.

Cole Stewart and Brock Welsh earned assists on the goal.

Nipissing would once again see themselves down a pair, as a power play marker just 40 seconds after their goal, put Ontario Tech up 3-1.

Late in the period, also on a power play, the Lakers once again drew within one.

Harrison Caines found the back of the net, with Will Larsen and Mayea – who collects his second point of the contest – getting helpers on the goal.

Like the first intermission, the Lakers trail by a goal after two periods of play.

Five minutes into the third, the Lakers tied the game thanks to a Stewart tally.

The goal is Stewart's second point of the game, as he joins Mayea with multi-point games.

Just after the midway point of the period, the Lakers jumped ahead on a goal by Parker Bowman.

His fourth of the season was assisted by Caines, who has a goal and an assist, as well as Charles Farmer.

The comeback was completed when Mayea scored his second of the game into the empty net.

The goal came unassisted and shorthanded.

Michael Herringer finished with 25 saves, while the Lakers fired 33 shots at the Ridgebacks net.

The two teams are back at it Saturday afternoon to cap off the weekend.

Game time is set for 2pm at Memorial Gardens.