LETHBRIDGE – With her first goal of the season in the last minute of play, Lethbridge Pronghorns forward Brett Campbell put away the UBC Thunderbirds, 2-1 in the first game of a Canada West weekend double-header Friday night, snapping the Pronghorns' six-game losing streak.

With the win, the Pronghorns' record improves to 4-9-0-2, moving to within six points of the Regina Cougars for the final playoff spot, while the Thunderbirds fall to 6-3-3-3 on the season, remaining in third.

UBC opened scoring with a wrap-around attempt by Emily Costales seven minutes into the second period. After coaxing Pronghorns' goaltender Alicia Anderson out of her net, an unguarded Hannah Clayton-Carroll was in perfect position to net her fifth goal of the season.



Just over two minutes later, Lethbridge would find an answer to Clayton-Carroll's marker. Jodi Gentile stormed into the Thunderbirds zone and fired a well-placed wrist-shot just above the glove of Tory Micklash, to tie the game back up at one.

The Thunderbirds would begin the third period pressing the Pronghorns in their own zone, with Brie Bellerive drawing a hooking penalty from Lethbridge's Delaney Duchek. But the 'Birds weren't able to capitalize on the opportunity.

As time began to tick away in the second half of the period, both teams began to focus on creating quality scoring chances to get their team the lead. Both Anderson and Micklash stood tall for their teams, as shots would come from all angles in a rapid series of back-and-forth play.

With less than three minutes remaining, Anderson would come up strong for the Pronghorns, turning aside a point-blank shot on the blocker-side before the play went back into the UBC zone.



Less than a minute later, Anderson would make an astounding blocker save on a screened wrist-shot from the slot to keep her team from going down by one goal late in the game.

Despite all of the pressure from both clubs to break the tie in their favour while being leak-proof defensively, it would be the Pronghorns who would break through their opponents' barrier late in the game. Continuing with a cycle-play near the blue line, Katelyn Breitkreuz would feed teammate Alli Borrow at the near-side half-boards; her wrist shot would be deflected in by Campbell in front of the net behind Micklash to mark her first goal of the season which stood up as the game winner.

Micklash stopped 11 shots in the final frame while Anderson turned aside all 15 of the shots she faced.

The Pronghorns and T-Birds will face-off again tomorrow afternoon to wrap up the first semester of conference action. Puck drop at the Nicholas Sheran Ice Centre is set for 1:00 p.m. PT.