BOX SCORE

EDMONTON – Senior rearguard Nicole Pratt tallied three goals, including the winner, to hand the No. 9 Alberta Pandas a 4-2 win against the No.3 Calgary Dinos, Friday night at Clare Drake Arena in Edmonton.

The High Prairie, Alta. native now has five goals in her last three games, four of them coming on the power-play. Third-year forward Alannah Kedra also scored for the Pandas while fourth-year forward Monika Moskalski added a pair of assists.

Fourth-year defender Melissa Zubick scored for the Dinos, as did the 2010-11 CIS Player of the Year, Hayley Wickenheiser, playing in only her sixth game of the season for Calgary.

Alberta opened the scoring at the 1:42 mark of the first when Kedra slammed in a rebound off a Katie Borbely shot, notching her first goal of the season.

Pratt then doubled the Pandas' lead midway through the second with a brilliant end-to-end rush, her initial shot deflecting off a Calgary defender and landing behind the Dino goal, but Alberta's leading scorer from the blueline picked up the loose puck and scored on the wraparound.

On a two-man advantage at the 14:53 mark of the middle frame, Pratt earned her second on a slapper from the top of the faceoff circle, ricocheting off a Dino rearguard and the near post before finding the twine behind Calgary's Amanda Tapp.

Down 3-0 entering the third, Zubick broke Kaitlyn Chapman's shutout bid 35 seconds into the final frame, driving around the net before circling to the front and firing a wristshot underneath Chapman's pad.

The Chauvin, Alta. native then shut the door for most of the final 20 minutes, but Wickenheiser's tally with 1:04 left, a carbon copy of Zubick's goal, cut Calgary's deficit to one.

A Zubick penalty four seconds later, however, put the Dinos at a two-man disadvantage, virtually nullifying any chance of a comeback, but Calgary forechecked hard in the final 60 seconds before Pratt earned her hat trick on an empty-net, power-play marker with 11 seconds left on the clock.

Alberta finished the night going 2-8 on the power-play while Calgary went 0-2.

The 8-2-5 Pandas and 9-4-0 Dinos face off in game two of their weekend series tomorrow night at 7 p.m. at Calgary's Father David Bauer Arena.

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