EDMONTON – The Calgary Dinos built off a dominant opening quarter to manufacture an epic blowout win over the MacEwan Griffins in Canada West men's basketball action on Friday night.

The final score, 78-42, flattered the Griffins after the Dinos – who built a 62-21 lead through three quarters – pulled their starters for large swaths of time.

With the result, the Griffins fall to 0-3 in the standings, while the Dinos – ranked ninth in U SPORTS – are now 2-1.

MacEwan started slowly and found themselves chasing the game, down 17-3 after the first quarter. At the half, it was 40-15 and essentially in the bag for the visitors, who rested starters and got 12 players into the contest.

Parker Johnstone led the Dinos with 17 points in just 12 minutes of work off the bench, while Jackson Bayles had 10.

No Griffins hit double digits as Alex Jap led the team with eight points.

The stat that stands out is field goal shooting percentage as Calgary shot 52.0 per cent to MacEwan's 23.6.

The teams will meet again on Saturday (7 p.m., David Atkinson Gym, Canada West TV presented by Co-op).