(Mississauga) Riley Brace was in on every goal for the home side on Sunday afternoon, as the Majors beat the Spitfires, 3-1, in their only visit to the Hershey Centre this season.
Brady Vail scored the only goal for Windsor (24-26-3-2), which failed to reach the .500 mark with the loss.
Brace opened the scoring at 15:31 of the first period on a bizarre play. As Jaroslav Pavelka (17 saves) played a dump-in behind his goal, it became lodged between his skate and bottom of his pad, before falling out right onto Brace's stick for an easy tap-in.
Vail tied the game just 1:40 later, taking a nifty pass from Ben Johnson and beating Brandon Maxwell (28 saves) with a quick snapshot.
Sergey Kuptsov scored the eventual winner at 1:14 of the second period, sliding home a rebound after Pavelka couldn't control an innocent looking shot by Kristoff Kontos.
The Spits had four PP chances in the middle frame - including 59 seconds of 5-on-3 time - but couldn't tie the game. That ended up costing them in the final 20, as they tired and managed just four shots.
Brace rounded out the scoring with his 30th of the year at 16:28 of the third.
SCORING
FIRST PERIOD:
MISS BRACE (29) 15:13,
WSR VAIL (18) (JOHNSON, MARCHESE) 16:53
SECOND PERIOD:
MISS KUPTSOV (KONTOS, BRACE) 1:14
THIRD PERIOD:
MISS BRUCE (30) (KUPTSOV, KONTOS) 16:28
SHOTS:
WSR 16 - 9 - 4 = 29
MISS 5 - 7 - 8 = 20
PPS
WSR 0-FOR-5
MISS 0-FOR-1
