VANCOUVER – The University of Calgary Dinos men's soccer team saw their season come to an end on Friday night as the UBC Thunderbirds advanced to the Canada West Semi-Final with a 3-0 win at Thunderbird Stadium.

The Dinos were forced to play just over half the match with 10 men following a red card for dissent with the game still scoreless. 

Second-half goals from Sebastian Dzikowski, saw the top nationally-ranked Thunderbirds carve out the win in the new-look playoff format with a chance on Saturday to book their place at November's U SPORTS Men's Soccer Championship with another victory.

The rematch of last year's Canada West championship game was always going to be a closely contested affair. With that in mind, the Thunderbirds wanted to come out of the blocks fast and try and get the early breakthrough. They almost got it four minutes in but Chris Lee's header was expertly tipped over by Liam Hunter in the Dinos' net.

Calgary had a couple of penalty shouts when Gianmarco Plenzik went down in the box, but the referee waved away the Dinos' appeals.

UBC controlled possession without carving out any clear-cut goal scoring opportunities, but they turned the heat up in the final 15 minutes of the half. Lee had a shot miss narrowly left before Hunter denied Luke Norman with a superb acrobatic save.

Then came the game-changing moment with six minutes remaining until half. A pair of yellow cards for dissent meant Calgary had to play the remainder of a match a man down.

UBC broke the deadlock early in the second half. Brennan Fuerst did well to keep the ball from going out behind the goal. His high pass was fumbled by Hunter, right to the feet of Dzikowski, who did not miss from close range.

The Thunderbirds doubled their lead in the 56th minute when Pena had a neat finish at the back post after getting onto a ball in from Norman.

Kaiser's long-range effort took a deflection past Hunter to give UBC their third in the 72nd minute.

With the defeat, the Dinos graduate seniors Derek Brust and Hunter from this year's squad.

UBC will now face either the Alberta Golden Bears or the Trinity Western Spartans in Saturday's semi-final at Thunderbird Stadium.