KADE GATES

The Huskies had a big comeback to win 4–3 on Friday, then on Saturday they played well to win 3–1 over U of C.

The ninth ranked women’s hockey team played host to the eighth ranked University of Calgary and swept the Dinos in a weekend double header by the scores of 4–3 and 3–1.

With the wins, the Huskies run their record to 5–3 on the season and should move up the Canadian Interuniversity Sports top 10 rankings next week.

On Oct. 24 at Rutherford Rink, the Huskies got the ball rolling early as Kaitlin Willoughby scored off a nice set-up from Kira Bannatyne midway through the first. The Dinos got a hot second period started early as Russian phenom Iya Gavrilova received a Hayley Wickenheiser pass — yes that Hayley Wickenheiser — and threw it at the net banking home off a cluster of players to tie the game at one only 33 seconds into the second period.

Gavrilova kept it going two minutes later as she floated a backhand through a screen for her seventh of the season to make it 2–1 Calgary. Dinos’ forward Jessyka Holt banged home a Megan Grenon rebound to widen the gap to 3–1 midway through the second. Stealing the momentum back as they headed to the locker room, the Huskies scored with just 42 seconds left in the period off a Kandace Cook tip in.

Early in the third, Rachel Johnson beat Dinos’ netminder Hayley Dowling to tie the game at three and eventually force overtime. Huskies forward Lauren Zary potted her first CIS goal at the 2:52 mark in overtime to give the Huskies the huge comeback victory. Zary took a Johnson feed and cut behind the goal, wrapping around and beating Dowling to the far post.

The following evening, the offence took a little longer to get started as the teams skated to a scoreless first before the Huskies’ Cook broke the tie early in the second. Cook snapped a quick shot past Dinos’ goalie Carissa Fischer on the power play. A minute later, Friday’s overtime hero Zary made it two goals in as many games when a Dinos turnover left her alone in front to make it 2–0. Chelsey Sundby added a third Huskies goal in the second period at the 9:47 mark.

The Dinos dominated the puck in the third, outshooting the Huskies 13–2, but Huskies’ star goalie Cassidy Hendricks stood tall allowing only a single goal to the Dinos’ Gavrilova.

The Huskies women’s team will go on bye next weekend but will return to the ice on Nov. 7 and 8 when they travel to Calgary to take on the Mount Royal University Cougars.