Matthew Barnes was saving his first OUA goal for an important moment.

Barnes scored the game-tying goal and Jordan Maletta netted the game winner to help the Brock Badgers complete a 5-4 comeback victory to sweep the Windsor Lancers from the OUA men's hockey playoffs in Game 2 at Seymour-Hannah Arena on Friday.

The Badgers advance to the second round, and await their next playoff opponent.

"It's a great first round," said head coach Marty Williamson. "They're a heck of a team over there in Windsor, they beat us both times during the regular season, so for us to win this first round is a great start. Playoffs are one period, one game, at a time. We'll wait and see who our opponent is. It could be the best team in the league, Toronto, or it could be Ryerson, who is also a fantastic team. We're going to be going to one of them on Wednesday."

Cosimo Fontana, Ayden MacDonald and Jared Marino each scored a goal and netminder Mario Culina made 25 saves for the win.

Windsor kept scoring the go-ahead goal, yet the Badgers would respond until the Lancers built a 4-2 lead heading into the third period.

"We were disappointed in ourselves in the first two periods, and unless we wanted to get on a bus and go back to Windsor and play in their building, then we needed to have a heck of a period," said Williamson.

Marino found the back of the net just two and half minutes into the final frame.

"That first goal got us going. It was like we were smelling blood," said Williamson. "We just kept attacking and attacking, and it's the way we play best."

The Badgers swarmed around the Lancers' net like upset bees around a hive as they generated crowd-roaring scoring chance after scoring chance.

Finally, the puck flew out to Barnes on the blue line following a blast from defence partner Dexter Weber, and he hammered it for his first goal as a Badger. 

"The rebound popped out from Wee-ber's big shot and I had an empty space to walk in with a slap shot and luckily enough it went in," said Barnes. "It was a good feeling. This was a character win from the boys."

Maletta scored the game winner by picking up the puck on the half wall, spinning around and firing it on net where it redirected off a defender to beat Windsor goalie Jonathan Reinhart five hole.

Barnes, Maletta, Weber, Ryan Burton, Brayden Stortz, Skylar Pacheco, Frankie Pucci, Justin Brack and captain Connor Walters each recorded an assist.