diff --git a/simulstream/metrics/scorers/latency/mwersegmenter.py b/simulstream/metrics/scorers/latency/mwersegmenter.py
index 3a13b8d..75fb40f 100644
--- a/simulstream/metrics/scorers/latency/mwersegmenter.py
+++ b/simulstream/metrics/scorers/latency/mwersegmenter.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ def _tokenize(self, text: List[str]) -> List[str]:
                     encoded = [" ".join(self.segmenter.encode(p)) for p in pieces]
                     tokenized_text.append(" ### ".join(encoded))
                 else:
-                    tokenized_text.append(" ".join(self.segmenter.encode(text[i].strip())))
+                    tokenized_text.append(" ".join(self.segmenter.encode(text[i])))
             return "\n".join(tokenized_text)
         else:
             return "\n".join(text)