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For the first time in history, the Regina Cougars and provincial rival Saskatchewan Huskies will battle for the Canada West women's hockey championship in a best-of-three series in Saskatoon this weekend.

The matchup begins Friday at Rutherford Rink. The winner will advance as the lone Canada West representative at the CIS championship, hosted by the St. Thomas Tommies, March 13-16 in Fredericton, NB.

Puck drop for game one is set for 7 p.m. Friday, with game two scheduled for Saturday at 7 p.m. Game three, if needed, will take place on Sunday. All games will be streamed live on canadawest.tv.

Regina and Saskatchewan have met in four Canada West playoff series – 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. In all but the 2004 series, the Cougars advanced to the conference finals.

The Cougars (11-13-4) have ploughed their way through the conference playoffs sweeping the fourth-seeded Manitoba Bisons in the quarter-final and upsetting the top-seeded and nationally fifth-ranked Alberta Pandas in the semifinal.

Meghan Sherven led the Cougars through the regular season tallying six goals and five assists, while eight other players scored three or more goals. In the five playoff games, Kylie Gavelin and Stephanie Sawchuk have been the offensive forces combining for five of the 10 goals scored in the postseason.

The Cougars have also received outstanding goaltending from Jennifer Schmidt. Starting in all five playoff games, she has a 1.00 goals-against average and a .967 save percentage. Schmidt also picked up a shutout in the first game against Manitoba.

After earning a bye to the semifinal, the Huskies (18-4-6) defeated the UBC Thunderbirds in three games at home. In Rutherford Rink in 2013-14, the Huskies are 13-2-2.

Saskatchewan's top line of Cami Wooster, Kaitlin Willoughby and Sara Greschner provided the bulk of the Huskies' scoring during the season, combining for 39 of the team's 71 goals. Leading the Huskies through the playoffs was goaltender Cassidy Hendricks, who stopped 73 of 79 shots and posted a shutout in the three game series against UBC.

Regina Cougars	Head-To-Head	Saskatchewan Huskies
Sarah Hodges (16th season)	Head Coach	Steve Kook (9th season)
11-13-4	Regular season record	18-4-6
5th	Regular season standing	2nd
4-1	Playoff record to date	2-1
16-17-4	Season overall record	24-6-6
1-2-1	Record vs. SASK /Record vs. REG	3-0-1
NR	Top 10 final ranking (Feb. 26)	10th
#5 (two weeks)	Top 10 best ranking	#8 (five weeks)
8 of 16	Top 10 number of weeks ranked	13 of 16
Meghan Sherven (11 points)	Points leader	Cami Wooster (31 points)
Jennifer Schmidt (7-7-1, 1.90, .937)	Goaltending leader	Cassidy Hendricks (11-4-3, 1.77, .924)
1	Canada West championships won	0
2001	Last Canada West championship	2003-04
N/A	CIS championships won	N/A

Edited by Brady Knight, University of Regina Sports Information