VANCOUVER – Channeling her heroics in the 2022 Canada West final, Chanreet Bassi once again scored in double overtime Saturday night over the Saskatchewan Huskies, giving the UBC Thunderbirds a 2-1 victory to earn three of a possible four points at Saskatoon's Merlis Belsher Place.

Deadlocked 1-1 since the early stages of the second period, the long-time Canada West rivals found themselves playing beyond 60 minutes for the second straight night following Saskatchewan's 3-2 overtime win Friday night.

With four-on-four solving nothing Saturday, Bassi decided enough was enough as she scored her second of the season, and second double OT victory over the Huskies in their last three meetings.

Annalise Wong collected the puck in the neutral zone and made a perfect stretch feed to Bassi who was waiting at the Huskies blue line. She then cut to the slot and rifled the puck past Camryn Drever to earn the valuable weekend split and a happy trip home to Vancouver.

"These are tight games and obviously we would have liked to do it in regulation and not give up any points to Sask as it's going to be a battle all year with them in the standings," said UBC Head Coach Graham Thomas. "But for us to come here and get three out of four points is big. We were resilient, we had to kill 18 penalties over the weekend, I've never been a part of something like that. It was a gritty win, everyone stepped up."

The T-Birds (4-1-1) outshot the Huskies (3-1-2) by a 26-19 margin with Kate Stuart earning her second win between the pipes for UBC.

"It will give our team confidence," said Thomas about his team's ability to find a way to win in overtime. "To bounce back and to be able to keep pushing through all the setbacks in the game, for us to keep fighting through and be mentally tough with all the adversity the weekend brought and to be able to finish on a positive and get it done in overtime was huge."

Mackenzie Kordic opened scoring late in the first with her third goal of the season coming on the power play.

Saskatchewan responded with a power play goal of their own at the 3:27 mark of the second when Sara Kendall scored on a 5-on-3.

The T-Birds finished the game 1-for-4 on the advantage while the Huskies scored once on seven opportunities.

UBC now heads into a bye week two points shy of first place Mount Royal and one ahead of third place Saskatchewan. The 'Birds return to Canada West action October 28 when they visit the MacEwan Griffins for the first of two weekend tilts in Edmonton.