VANCOUVER  - The Calgary Dinos women's rugby team made history in Vancouver Friday afternoon by recording its first CIS victory, by a score of 34-10 over the UBC Thunderbirds at Wolfson Field.

“It feels good,” said Calgary head coach Simon Chi.  “It's obviously something we've worked hard to achieve. I'm really happy for the girls.  They're the ones who did all the work.  Our goal this year was to biuild on each performance so this is a good place to start.  It'll probably sink in, in a little bit. But it's just a game. That's literally the way we treated this.”

The Dinos, in their third season of CIS competition, improve to 1-0 after going winless in its first two seasons while UBC drops to 0-3 in 2011. Calgary will host the 2011 Canada West rugby championship Oct. 21-23.

The Dinos scored in spurts against the young Thunderbirds.  After Sylvie Mullen opened the game with a penalty goal in the 5th minute.  Then the Dinos got two quick tries, from Jodie Hicks and Lizzie MacKinnon, to make it 15-0, which was enough for the victory.

UBC's Paniz Pahlavanlu (Port Moody, BC) got her team back into the game with a try in the 31st minute.  She scored from in front close in off a quick tap that came after a penalty.

A missed convert made it 15-5 for the visitors at halftime.

Calgary dashed any hopes of a UBC comeback early in the second half with tries from Brynna Walker and Katherine Procyshyn in the 46th and 48th minutes, respectively.

Kayla Lissel added one more score in the 63rd minute to make it 34-5 for Calgary before UBC's Megan Hamm (Langley, BC), playing with a broken nose, got a try back for the Thunderbirds.

UBC will likely need to win its regular season finale on October 15th at Victoria to make the Canada West playoffs.  Calgary's next game is also at Victoria, that one going Sunday afternoon.

SCORING SUMMARY
5' - CGY Sylvia Mullen penalty goal - 3-0 Cgy
13' - CGY Jodie Hicks try (Mullen convert) 10-0 Cgy
15' - CGY Lizzie MacKinnon try (no convert) 15-0 Cgy
31' - UBC Paniz Pahlavanlu try (no convert) - 15-5 Cgy HALF
46' - CGY Brynna Walker try (Mullen convert) - 22-5 Cgy
48' - CGY Katherine Procyshyn try (no convert) - 27-5 Cgy
63' - CGY Kayla Lissel try (Mullen convert) - 34-5 Cgy
66' - UBC Megan Hamm try (convert missed) - 34-10 Cgy

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