EDMONTON – The MacEwan Griffins men's hockey team left it too late and ended up with too little when the final buzzer sounded on a 3-2 loss to the visiting Calgary Dinos on Saturday night.

Curtis Roach scored with 2:54 to pull MacEwan within one, but their furious rally – including a post by Chase Thudium with 1:12 left – came up short.

Calgary never trailed in the contest and completed a weekend sweep over MacEwan after also winning 4-0 on Friday.

With the loss, the Griffins fall to 2-4-0, while the Dinos improve to 4-2-0.

Calgary thought they'd opened the scoring in the first period, but the official waved it off after Josh Maser was ruled to have batted in a rebound with his glove.

But the Dinos eventually would open the scoring for real at 5:24 of the second period. Just as he did on Friday, Riley Stotts scored the visitors' opener on a power play.

Tyson Upper also scored for the second time in as many nights, making it 2-0 visitors at 13:23 when he tapped a rebound into an empty net off Arjun Atwal's inspired rush.

MacEwan's David Kope cut the lead in half, though, just over a minute later, when he caught up to a breakaway pass from Cameron Reagan and chipped it upstairs when Brodan Salmond attempted a poke-check.

Before the game was 40 minutes old, however, the Dinos led by two again when Kaden Elder one-timed a cross-seam power play pass from Stotts over James Porter's glove.

Roach pulled the Griffins to within one late when his power play point shot found its way through traffic.

Porter finished with 27 saves for MacEwan, while Salmond stopped 20 for the Dinos.

The win completes the weekend sweep for Calgary and now makes them winners in three of their last four. They'll look to continue their winning ways next weekend back on their home ice, starting with a showdown against Alberta on Friday at 7 p.m. from Father David Bauer Arena, before a Saturday rematch against the Griffins at 6 p.m. Both contests will be streamed on Canada West TV presented by Co-op.