Austin McEneny scored the overtime winner and Michael DiPietro made 34 saves as the Windsor Spitfires defeated the Peterborough Petes 5-4 at the Peterborough Memorial Centre Thursday night.

McEneny’s game-winner and first goal of the season came after after teammate Aaron Luchuk was stopped on a breakaway by Petes netminder Dylan Wells and McEneny followed up as the trailer and deposited the rebound past Wells.

Cole Carter, Julius Nattinen, Cole Purboo and Graham Knott had the other goal for the Spitfires (15-4-3-0 ) while Logan Stanley and Luchuk chipped in with a pair of assists apiece.

The Spitfires entered the game with just ten forwards as they were missing Gabe Vilardi, who underwent an emergency appendectomy earlier this week and Logan Brown, who remained sidelined with an undisclosed upper body injury. Cristiano DiGiacinto was also serving the second game of his five-game suspension and defenceman Jalen Chatfield was serving his one-game suspension for a head-but that occurred in a game last Sunday in London.

Zach Gallant, Adam Timleck, Matyas Svoboda and Matthew Spencer scored for the Petes (10-10-1-3) while Wells made 38 saves.

The win was the Spitfires’ second against the Petes in less than a month as they swept the regular season two-game series.

The Spitfires schedule keeps them on the road and return to action for a game in Ottawa against the 67s Friday night.