WINNIPEG - The Calgary Dinos continued their Saturday win streak, rebounding to defeat the Winnipeg Wesmen 76-72 at the Duckworth Centre in the Manitoba capital.
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It marked the third time in as many conference series this year that the Dinos have bounced back for a victory on Saturday after a Friday night loss, and it moved Calgary's record back to 3-3 on the campaign.
Winnipeg, meanwhile, falls to 1-2.
Andrew McGuinness led Calgary in scoring with 17 points.
Tyler Fidler contributed a double-double with 15 points and 14 rebounds, while
Keenan Milburn finished with 10 points.
Nick Lother led the Wesmen in scoring with a game high 27 points, including four-three pointers. Nolan Gooding finished with a double-double, 17 points and 12 rebounds, and added four assists and four steals. Brayden Duff and Lynden Drayton-Barrow added 12 and 11 points respectively.
The Wesmen came out on fire in the opening quarter climbing out to a 15-2 lead over four minutes into the game. The hard charging Calgary team fought back outscoring the Wesmen 12-3 down the stretch to cut the Winnipeg lead to 18-14 after the opening quarter.
Both teams exchanged points in an evenly played second quarter with both sides scoring 18 points in the quarter. Winnipeg went into the halftime break leading 36-32.
Winnipeg came out strong in the third quarter and extended their lead to eight (43-35) three minutes into the third frame. Calgary stormed back once again running off six straight points to cut the deficit to 43-41. Calgary managed to tie the score at 46-46 on a three pointer by McGuinness, to mark the first time the score was even. McGuinness drained another three-pointer 15 seconds later to give Calgary the lead for the first time in the contest (49-48). The Dinos led after three quarters 53-50.
In the final frame, both teams battled with the score tied on five occasions in the first seven minutes. The Dinos with the score tied at 65-65, put the game away scoring seven unanswered points to take the lead 72-65 and eventually would go on to win the game 76-72.
Winnipeg will head to Vancouver next week for a two game series against the UBC Thunderbirds. Calgary will have the bye next week and will host Brandon on Nov 19 and 20.
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