Box Score
CALGARY – For the second night in a row and 10^th time this season, the Lethbridge Pronghorn women's hockey team just fell short, dropping another one goal game, 2-1 in Calgary to the Mount Royal Cougars.
 
The Cougars clipped the Pronghorns 3-2 last night in Lethbridge.
 
The loss is costly for the Pronghorns, who fall to 3-13-2-2 on the season and are now eight points back of the Regina Cougars for the final playoff spot. With the win MRU improves to 6-11-3-0 and have won five straight games, moving into fifth spot in the Canada West standings.
 
Second-year Nicolette Seper carried her team to a 2-0 lead heading into the first break thanks to a pair of goals 2:10 apart. 
 
In the first at 13:46, a Reanna Arnold point shot bounced right in the wheelhouse of Sepper who slapped the rebound into the back of net. A shift later carrying the same momentum, she picked up the puck from the boards behind the net. She then walked out and snuck the puck through the wickets of Pronghorn net-minder Jessica Lohues for her fourth and fifth goals on the season. Louhes made 29 stops on the night.
 
The second period had both teams test one another but played to a deadlock until the visiting Pronghorns cut the Cougar lead in half late in the frame. Alli Borrow jumped on a rebound of her own, picking up the loose puck from one end of the net and wrapped the puck to the top of the blue-paint past a sprawled De Beauville at 17:50. MRU's De Beauville stopped 30 pucks on route to her seventh win of the season.
 
Lethbridge started the third period on the front-foot despite having their power play killed off by MRU's top ranked penalty-kill. De Beauville was forced to be sharp all night but the most important save of the night was a split-save on a Pronghorn rebound deep in her crease to keep her Cougar side ahead, dropping jaws all around the building. Lethbridge pressed hard in the latter half of the third period, but MRU held on to pick up the win and leapfrog into fifth place in Canada West. 
 
MRU is set to travel east and challenge the #1 ranked team in the nation Manitoba Bison next weekend in Winnipeg while Lethbridge hosts the second placed UBC