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Carleen Meszaros (pictured) scored in overtime to give the University of Regina's women's hockey team a 4-3 win over Manitoba on Friday night at the Co-operators Centre.

With under a minute left in the extra session, Hillary Lerat fired a shot from the left point that was saved by Manitoba goalie Dée-Ana Marion. The rebound trickled through the crease right to Meszaros, who flipped it over Marion's outstretched pad to score the winner

Brooklyn Moskowy, Stephanie Sawchuk, and Rianne Wight also scored for the Cougars, who got 28 saves from goalie Jennifer Schmidt in the win. Nellie Minshull, Kyleigh Palmer, and Kayleigh Wiens replied for Manitoba.

Minshull opened the scoring for Manitoba at the 13-minute mark of the first period. Penalties to Lerat and Jill Kennedy gave Manitoba a 5-on-3, and Minshull capitalized with over 30 seconds left in the two-man advantage. Meagan Vestby and Caitlin MacDonald drew assists on Minshull's goal.

The Cougars scored just over four minutes later on a weird one. Seven seconds after Manitoba's Maggie Litchfield-Medd was whistled for a roughing minor, Moskowy flipped a soft, harmless-looking shot towards the net which handcuffed Marion and found the top corner, tying the game at one apiece going into the first intermission.

Manitoba had a flurry of chances about four minutes into the second period, but Cougar goalie Jennifer Schmidt was up to the task. First she made a save on a breakaway by Vestby, and then stopped two shots on the subsequent scramble including a nice pad save from a Michelle Pawluk shot from the slot. Manitoba was able to break through late in the second period after a great deflection by Kyleigh Palmer off a MacDonald point shot went top shelf.

Schmidt was called upon to make another breakaway save early in the third period, as Amy Lee broke in alone and deked to the forehand but the second-year goalie kept her right pad down to stymie the attempt. And shortly after Schmidt's save, Sawchuk got the equalizer. Moskowy's pass from behind the net found Sawchuk in the slot and the second-year forward made no mistake, one-timing it low glove side to notch her fourth of the season.

Three minutes after Moskowy tied the game, Wight took a cross-crease pass from Paige Wheeler and scored to give the Cougars their first lead of the game. The 3-2 advantage lasted until the 13-minute mark of the third, when Wiens carried the puck into the slot and snapped a laser high glove side to score her first Canada West goal and tie the game at three apiece.

Though Manitoba carried a large portion of the play in overtime, the Cougars actually outshot the Bisons 5-2 in the extra session. Lerat and Wheeler both drew assists on Meszaros's winner.

Marion made 28 saves in the loss for Manitoba, which moves to 4-6-3 on the season.

The Cougars (9-4-0) will host the Bisons again on Saturday night to wrap up the weekend.