WINNIPEG - The Calgary Dinos grabbed four of a possible six points on their prairie road trip, riding two goals by
Tessa Miller to draw 2-2 with the Manitoba Bisons Sunday afternoon.
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Calgary had the first opportunity of the game, when a defending Bison slipped on the turf, allowing the charging Dino to move past her. But it was Manitoba netminder, Laura Harrison, who came up big for her team, stopping the shot and preserving the 0-0 score.
However, Calgary pressed forward and eventually got one past Harrison as Miller put one in the net in the 28th minute, making it 1-0 for the Dinos.
The Bisons could not be intimidated though, and in the 31st minute, Michelle Kliment scored a beautiful long-range goal, tucking the ball neatly into the top left corner of Calgary's net, and tying the game at 1-1.
In the 41st minute it looked like the Dinos would go up by 1, with Harrison down and the ball loose, but a brilliant team effort by the Bisons defensive unit kept the ball out of the net, and it eventually found it's way into Harrions hands, still tied at 1.
Harrison made yet another timely save before the whistle indicated the end of the first half, and the girls headed in to half time, tied 1-1.
The second half started out evenly matched, with both teams getting opportunities, but neither could give their team the lead until the 52nd minute, when Dinos forward Miller put her second of the game past Harrison from the outer left side of the field, giving Calgary the 2-1 lead.
The Bisons struggled to make up the ground, and their perseverance paid off in the 64th minute, when Alison Kastner sent one sailing over Dinos keeper
Kristen Barton's head, to tie the game at 2-2 with 25 minutes left to play.
Both teams refused to give an inch for the rest of the game, playing back and forth until the final whistle, calling an end to an evenly matched game, at a 2-2 tie.
The Dinos wrap up their home schedule next weekend when they host the Alberta Pandas and Saskatchewan Huskies for a pivotal series.
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