Brandon Clowes' goal with four minutes left in the third period stood as the game winner as the visiting Lethbridge Pronghorns took a 6-4 win over the Regina Cougars on Friday night in Canada West men's hockey action at The Co-operators Centre.

Clowes also sealed it with an empty netter with just over a minute remaining. Besides Clowes' pair, Lethbridge (7-11-1) also got goals from Zane Jones, Dalton Sward, Sam McKechnie, and Dustin Fostvelt. Damien Ketlo was brilliant at times in net for the Pronghorns, finishing with 32 saves to collect the victory.

Regina (4-15-0) replied with goals by Mark Schneider, Ian McNulty, J.J. Coleshaw, and Miguel Pereira.

Lethbridge opened the scoring with just three minutes remaining in the opening stanza. Jones took a pass from Jay Merkley and fired a snap shot from the high slot that went five-hole for the rookie's fourth goal of the Canada West schedule. The U of R's best chance of the first might have come with under a second left. Landon Peel snuck in from the point and took a pass from Zach McPhee, but Ketlo made his 13th save of the period to preserve his team's 1-0 lead heading into the first intermission.

But after just one goal in the opening 20 minutes, the teams exploded for three in the first four minutes of the second.

Sward increased Lethbridge's lead to two with a shot from just below the right faceoff dot that appeared to be deflected on its way in. That two-goal lead was short-lived, though, as Schneider finished off a nice give-and-go with Peel for his fourth of the season just a minute and 20 seconds later.

And the Cougars tied it up just 26 seconds after Schneider's goal. Ketlo made the initial save on a shot by Troy Hunter, but McNulty batted the rebound out of midair to notch his team-leading eighth of the campaign. The score stayed 2-2 until just past the 13-minute mark of the second when McKechnie deflected a point shot by Blake Orban to restore the one-goal lead for Lethbridge.

Lethbridge went up 4-2 after Fostvelt took a nice cross-ice feed from Justin Valentino and shelved it six minutes into the third. But the Cougars again had a quick answer as less than four minutes later Trent Lofthouse forced a turnover deep in the Lethbridge zone and fed Coleshaw in the slot, who made no mistake to get the U of R back to within one.

Clowes gave Lethbridge its third two-goal lead of the game with what turned out to be the game-winning goal. Clowes appeared to be attempting a pass, but the puck deflected off a Cougar skate and past goalie Mitch Kilgore to go up 5-3.

The Cougars had one more response in the form of a Pereira goal after he banged home a rebound following a deflected Cody Fowlie shot, but Clowes iced it with an empty netter a minute later.

The two teams will finish off the weekend set with a Saturday matinee. Game time is set for 3 p.m.

NOTES: Regina outshot Lethbridge by a 36-25 margin.