The University of Lethbridge Pronghorns completed a weekend sweep of the visiting UBC Thunderbirds Saturday night with a 2-1 win over UBC on Saturday.
The game's score was a far cry from the 6-4 back and forth shoot out on Friday and most of the credit for tonight's result goes to the sharp play of both goalies.
Horns netminder Scott Bowles was in top form tonight stopping a 43 of 44 shots put his way by an aggressive T-Bird squad. His T-Bird counterpart,
Francois Thuot, was nearly as good stopping 31 of 33 Horns attempt on goal.
Neither team could find the back of the net in first frame despite many opportunities. The T-Birds best chance occurred at the six minute mark of the period as
Brandon Campos was sent in alone on Bowles, deking the Horns goalie to the backhand, only to be denied by an outstretched pad.
Lethbridge's opportunity came with less than a minute remaining when Horns captain Dustin Moore crossed the blue line and wired a wrist shot the squeezed through the pads of Thuot. While Moore was able to beat Thuot, he could not beat the post as the puck was cleared to safety.
The Horns finally broke through halfway into the middle stanza courtesy of an Andrew Marshal slap shot from the high slot that beat Thuot up high.
UBC answered back less than two minutes later on the rush. Defenseman
Nick Duff held on to the puck and blasted a slap shot of his own past the glove of Bowles.
The Horns tallied the winning marker less than two minutes into the final frame as the hot hands of Andrew Courtney continued into this game. Courtney picked up a Dustin Moore rebound in front of the net and out waited Thuot before burying a backhander to put his team up for good. The goal marked Courtney's seventh of the campaign, all coming in the last 4 games.
UBC pressed for the majority of the period but could not solve Bowles and he stopped all 21 T-Birds shots put on goal in the frame.
The Horns' win moves them to 3-2-1 on the campaign while the T-Birds drop to an identical 3-2-1 record. Lethbridge heads out on to the road next weekend to take on the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. Meanwhile UBC heads into a bye week before hosting the visiting U of A Golden Bears in Vancouver on November 6 and 7.
