The University of Regina's women's basketball game fell to Saskatchewan by a 73-62 margin on Saturday night in the Canada West championship game at the Physical Activity Complex on the U of S campus.

The Cougars will now await Sunday afternoon's seeding announcement for next weekend's CIS Championship, which they qualified for with the win over MacEwan in the conference semifinals.

Saturday's game saw the teams combine for eight lead changes in the first half, with the Cougars leading by as many as five points after a Caitlin Zacharias bucket a minute into the second quarter. But the Huskies closed out the second with seven consecutive points to take a 37-31 lead at halftime, and Saskatchewan took over after the break.

First a 9-2 run capped by a Desarae Hogberg triple gave Saskatchewan its first double-digit lead of the game midway through the third, but it was a game-changing 12-0 run over a span of three minutes late in the quarter that changed the complexion of the game for good. That put the Huskies up 58-37, and they pushed the lead up to 27 at one point in the fourth quarter before Regina attempted a comeback.

The attempted Cougar comeback came in the form of a 20-4 run that featured four three-pointers by Katie Polischuk, but Saskatchewan's lead was still 11 and the Huskies responded with another Hogberg triple with just under two minutes remaining to go back up by 14.

Four of Saskatchewan's five starters hit double figures in scoring, led by Sabine Dukate's 18 points and 17 from Laura Dally. Hogberg and Kelsey Trulsrud both added 12 points.

Polischuk and Charlotte Kot both had 14 points to lead the Cougars, with Kot adding six rebounds. Kehlsie Crone (pictured) had nine points – all of which came on first-half three-pointers – while Alyssia Kajati had eight points and seven rebounds and Sidney Dobner finished with eight points.