EDMONTON – Two of the top teams in Canada West took fans on an emotional roller-coaster ride Sunday in a thrilling division rivalry battle between the University of Calgary Dinos women's soccer team and the MacEwan Griffins at Clarke Stadium that ended in a 3-3 draw.

The Dinos had an early lead. 

MacEwan struck back and took control, up 2-1 for almost 20 minutes in the second half.

Then, if you blinked, you would have missed it – Calgary's Kaleigh Major scored twice in a one-minute, 24-second span to put the visitors up 3-2.

But, just as it seemed like MacEwan would become the eighth-straight opponent to fall to Calgary this season, second-half sub Nikki Brodeur tied the game again in the 86th minute for the final result.

MacEwan becomes the first team so far this season to get a result against Calgary (7-0-1), improving to 5-2-1 on the campaign. 

On Sunday at Clarke, Sophie Lavallee thought she'd given the Griffins a 1-0 lead just three minutes in the match when she hit the mesh on a point-blank shot from inside the box, but officials ruled her offside.

Calgary eventually opened the scoring in the 24th minute when former Griffin Sofia DiGiacomo headed home an Aislin Phillips back-post corner kick. That's often been enough for the stingy Dinos, who previously beat MacEwan 1-0 earlier this month in Calgary on a similar early goal.

But the Griffins had more jam this time, no more personified by Brynn Hobal tying the game in the 35th minute by scoring with her stomach on a rebound off Anneke Odinga's initial shot.

MacEwan pressed Calgary in the second half and was rewarded with the go-ahead goal in the 61st as Alyx Henderson sent in a cross that Raeghan McCarthy ran onto and ripped past Dinos keeper Anna Demarbre.

Major scored twice in the 80th and 82nd minutes on almost identical plays – a clearance of crosses by MacEwan that went right to her instead of away.

In the 86th minute, rookie Kalia Bzeta – just subbed into the match in the 83rd – played in Brodeur with a nifty seam pass and the veteran made no mistake on a breakaway.

Sunday concluded a four-game road swing for the Dinos, who return home next weekend for back-to-back games versus the Manitoba Bisons on Sept. 26-27.

Next up for MacEwan is a road trip to face Saskatchewan and Regina.