November 9 - A late rally by the Lethbridge Pronghorns fell short as the visiting Manitoba Bisons skated to a 6-4 victory in Canada West men’s hockey action this eveing. After spotting the Bisons a 3-0 lead, the Horns battled back to make a game of it, only to see the Bisons score into a empty net with 28 seconds remaining to seal the win.

Travis Kornelsen (Riverton, MB, 2nd year) opened the scoring for Manitoba, his first of three on the night, beating Horns starter John Haggis (Calgary, AB, 5th year) five-hole from a sharp angle. While on a power play, Bison leading scorer Chris Falloon (Souris, MB, 4th year) doubled the Bison lead to two with under four minutes remaining in the opening period. Horns sniper Jason Roberts had a glorious chance to cut into the Bison lead, but his breakaway shot rung off the crossbar.

Just like the opening period, Kornelsen opened the scoring, putting the Bisons up 3-0. He collected a rebound off the back boards and beat Haggis to the far post for a wrap around.

The third marker by the Bisons awoke a sleeping Horns team, picking up two goals in the final 11 minutes of the period. Logan Lavorato (Lethbridge, AB, 3rd year) finished off a Horns three on one after a great feed from Lucio Pucci-Daniele (Kelowna, BC, 2nd year). Freshman Derek LeBlanc followed with a power play marker, taking a back door feed and one timing it past Bison goaltender Krister Toews (Kleefeld, MB, 4th year).

After a power play to start the period produced nothing for the Horns, the Bisons struck 17 seconds after the man advantage with Kornelsen completing the hat trick.

The Bisons regained the three goal lead with Michael Hellyer (Brandon, MB, 1st year) lifting a back hand over a sprawled Haggis off an odd man rush.

Horns captain Shaun Norrie responded quickly for the U of L cutting the lead back to two, beating Toews with a slap shot glove side. Before Horns fans could settle back in their seats, Steve Zmudczynski (Thorold, ON, 2nd year) cut the lead back to one 37 seconds later. Zmudczynski broke in on a two on two and received pass beat Toews to the glove side.

With the goaltender pulled, the Horns turned the puck over and paid dearly with Richard Wood (Houston, BC, 3rd year) sealing the game with the empty netter.

Haggis turned away 27 shots in the loss and Toews was solid in goal for the Bisons turning away 31 of the Horns 35 shots.

With the loss the Horns losing streak hits six games and their record falls to 2-7-0, while the Bisons improve to 6-3-0.