EDMONTON – For the second time this season, a late goal against turned a win into a tie for the MacEwan Griffins women's soccer team.

They were about to beat Saskatchewan 2-1 in their season opener in Saskatoon when the Huskies found the equalizer on the last play of the game off a corner kick. This time, Alberta tied Saturday's game off a 90th minute throw-in, as Adrienne Poulin corralled it and knifed a pass through the middle of the MacEwan D to a streaking Tara Simonot, who deked around keeper Sabrina Alexander, tucking it in to seal a 2-2 final.

With the result, MacEwan is now 8-1-2, and trails Calgary (9-1-1) by two points for top spot in the Prairie Division, although the Dinos are favoured against Lethbridge later on Saturday. Alberta, meanwhile, got a key point to move to 6-3-2 and would officially clinch a playoff spot if Regina loses to Saskatchewan on Saturday night.

Alberta was certainly much happier about the single point than MacEwan was after the Griffins created far more dangerous chances in the game – hitting two crossbars in the first half, having two other goals overturned on offside calls and seeing a 76^th-minute point-blank chance by Ruth Adekugbe go through keeper Autumn Wynn's legs, only to be saved off the line by defender Mila Van der Veen.

The Griffins never trailed in the contest, opening the scoring in the fifth minute when Grace Schimpf shimmied a defender 30 yards out and sent in an inspired ball onto the boot of Hannah Harper, who made no mistake for her seventh goal of the season.

Grace Mwasalla hit the crossbar from the middle of the box that would have given MacEwan a 2-0 lead in the 12^th minute, but it went bar down and stayed out.

Alberta then tied the contest in the 21st, as Wanda Czebreszuk fed Makenna Van der Veen, who found a pocket of space in the middle of the attacking zone and had all day to pick the corner with a strong strike on Alexander.

Sophie Lavallee scored in the 40^th minute, but she was offside, before Schimpf hit a crossbar from distance in the 42^nd, again going bar down but staying out. Then Brynn Hobal scored on a breakaway in the 61^st minute, but it was called offside.

Finally, Hobal put the Griffins out front 2-1 in the 84^th, as Mwasalla leapt into the air to corral a long pass from Paige Colby, turned and hit her on the right wing, and she made no mistake with a far side strike.

Alexander made nine saves for MacEwan, while Wynn stopped seven for the Pandas.

The teams will meet again on Sunday (12 p.m., Foote Field, Canada West TV).