EDMONTON – Facing the hottest team in the central division, the Lethbridge Pronghorn women's soccer team held the division leading MacEwan Griffins at bay for most of the opening half but couldn't keep them in check for the entire 90 minutes, losing 8-0 on Saturday at Clarke Stadium in Edmonton.
 
The game sat scoreless as the clock past the 40-minute mark but the Griffins' offense exploded over the final 50 minutes.
 
After Meagan Lemoine opened the scoring in the 42^nd minute, the floodgates opened for the home side to go onto their seventh-straight win that pushes them to 8-1-0 and atop the Canada West Central Division standings.
 
 
Salma Kamel made it 2-0 before half-time when she was played in on the left by Maya Morrell and chipped it past Lethbridge goalkeeper Bridie Harding.
 
But the game really got away from the Pronghorns when Nikki Brodeur and Grace Mwasalla came in as half-time subs. Brodeur made it 3-0 in the 57^th minute when she beat the defence on the right side, walked the line and drilled a sharp-angle shot past Harding.
 
In the 63^rd, Brodeur played a great cross into the box and Mwasalla made no mistake, heading home MacEwan's fourth of the contest.
 
Before long, it was Alyx Henderson's turn as she scored her first career Canada West goal in the 73^rd on a breakaway where Harding stopped her first attempt but not the rebound.
 
Cue up Mwasalla's turn in the 75th as this time she headed in a cross coming from the left off the boot of Anna McPhee.
 
Brodeur and Henderson scored their second goals of the game to cap the scoring.
 
The Pronghorns will look to rebound on Sunday versus the Griffins at 12 p.m., Clarke Stadium, catch all the action on www.canadawest.tv, presented by Co-op.