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With files from University of Alberta Sports Information

Brooklyn Moskowy scored twice – including the game winner with less than two minutes remaining – to give the University of Regina's women's hockey team a 3-2 win over No. 3 Alberta on Friday night at the Clare Drake Arena in Edmonton.

Kylie Gavelin also scored for the Cougars, while goalie Jennifer Schmidt had a sparkling 32-save performance between the pipes to help the U of R collect its fifth win in its last six games. Defencemen Brandi Buss and Kirsten Toth replied for Alberta.

Jill Kennedy assisted on both of Moskowy's goals, giving the first-year forward five points in her first 11 games.

Paige Wheeler helped the Cougars get on the scoreboard early after throwing a shot on goal from the wing during the game's first power-play. The rebound went to fellow fifth-year forward Rianne Wight in front, who backhanded it to Gavelin for the opening tally at the two-minute mark of the first period.

Schmidt then made a pair of nice saves to keep the Cougars in front, first on Alberta's Janelle Froehler and the next five minutes later with a pad save in tight on Karla Bourke.

Moskowy doubled Regina's lead in the second, taking advantage of a scramble in front of Alberta's net and firing the loose puck top shelf at 7:31 for her first of the season. The Pandas tried to reply just over a minute later, but a fully outstretched Schmidt stopped a Jayden Skoye one-timer from Froehler right on the line to make her 20th stop of the night.

But Alberta's very next shot got through Schmidt. With the Pandas on the power play, Buss roofed a short-side shot from the bottom of the faceoff circle to put the home team on the board with 4:40 left in the middle frame.

The Cougars took a series of penalties late in the third – a total of four minors were whistled on the visitors in the last half of the final stanza – to give Alberta a chance to equalize. They did just that when Toth fired a slap shot through traffic to the top corner, making the score 2-2 with just past the 18-minute mark of the third.

The tie game lasted only nine seconds, though. Kennedy won the ensuing faceoff and Moskowy went in on the Alberta net and wristed the short-handed winner top shelf to give the Cougars a 3-2 lead.

Despite having a power play for the remainder of the game, as well as an extra attacker in place of Jeffries, the Cougars kept the Pandas to the outside – if not entirely outside the Regina end – to close out the game.

The Cougars finished the game 1-5 on the man-advantage to go along with their short-handed marker. Alberta went 2-7. The two teams will meet again in game two of their weekend series on Saturday (6 p.m. MST).