CALGARY – The Calgary Dinos women's hockey team ended its first season back in CIS on a high note Saturday after graduating players Danielle Boyce and Katie Urness both contributed in a 4-1 win over the Lethbridge Pronghorns at Father David Bauer Arena.

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The game opened with excitement as the teams traded markers beginning with the Dinos' Casey Irving netting the first goal 6:09 into the first. Irving earned the chance after a setup by Boyce and Cait O'Hara that left her unobstructed in the right circle. Winding up a slapshot she banked a shot off Lethbridge goalie Kailey McMaster's shoulder and into the net.

Four minutes later Lethbridge would respond after the Dinos' Nicole Kuglin took a body checking penalty sending the Pronghorns onto their first power play. Amy Van Buskirk scored the goal from a feed by Brittney Kaye and JJ Marshall beating Calgary's Urness with a shot through traffic from the right boards.

Danielle Boyce would score the eventual game winner 26 seconds into the second period.

“Cait (O'Hara) was in the left side corner and she passed it back to Melissa Zubick,” Boyce described after the win. “Zubick shot it and their goalie stuck out her right pad leaving a huge rebound, I just slid it through her legs.”

The Dinos would add two more markers in the third period. The first of those was scored by first year forward Taylor McLeod, her first as a Dino, at 8:43 on the power play from a feed by Katie Urness that found Zubick.

“I got a good pass from Zubick and a screen from the defender that I shot over the left pad and in,” McLeod described after the game.

Elana Lovell would finish the evening's scoring when she beat McMaster at 14:29 of the third. Calaine Inglis and McLeod picked up assists on the goal on a shot Lovell let rip from the slot and into the back of the Horns' net.

The power play proved to be the key for both squads with both clubs picking up one goal on four attempts. In the shot department the Dinos ruled, outshooting the 'Horns 36 to 17.

Both of the Dinos players who finish university careers earned points in this game with Boyce leaving with a goal and assist and Urness finishing with an assist and a 16-save performance. After the game head coach Danielle Goyette had nothing but praise for her newest alumni.

“We're going to miss those players,” she said. “Katie has been a great goaltender for the three years I've been here and Boyce has brought a huge amount of leadership to the team.

”I'm happy with the way we finished this year and the girls now know what I'm going to ask of them next season,” Goyette went on. ”I think a big factor this year was mental. That is something that we have to build up, it's going to take time, but it's something that we are getting. The most important part is that the girls know that they can win now.”

Both Calgary and Lethbridge finish out of the playoffs in 2009-10. The Dinos close the season with a 7-15-2 record, good enough for 16 points and sixth place, while Lethbridge finishes two points back of Calgary with a mark of 5-15-4.

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