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CISGAME 10 2009 CIS womens field hockey championship Alberta win sets up allCanada West final GAME 10 2009 CIS womens field hockey championship Alberta win sets up allCanada West finalVICTORIA (CIS) The No 5seeded Alberta Pandas edged the topranked Guelph Gryphons 21 in the tenth and final roundrobin game of the CIS womens field hockey Saturday afternoon to earn a return trip to the goldmedal finalThe Pandas who erased a onegoal deficit for the second straight game after coming back to beat the defending national champion Victoria Vikes by a similar score earlier on Saturday finished the preliminary round in second place with a 220 record and six pointsIn Sundays championship match at 1 pm Pacific Time Alberta will face the No 2 UBC Thunderbirds who took first place with a 301 mark and 10 pointsThe Pandas who lost 21 to Victoria in last years final will make their fourth alltime appearance in the title match They captured their lone McCrae Cup in 2005 with a 21 penalty stroke victory over UBC in the lone previous goldmedal affair between the two teamsThe Thunderbirds who share the record of 11 McCrae Cup titles with Victoria will play for CIS gold for the 17th time since the inaugural championship in 1975 and the first time since 2006Victoria (112) and Guelph (121) finished third and fourth respectively in the roundrobin standings and will battle for bronze Sunday at 10 am Toronto (130) places fifth and last for the second straight yearWe had a slow start the last two days and we rose to the challenge were definitely peaking at the right time said Alberta interim head coach AJ FacendiAfter CIS player of the year Brienne Stairs of Kitchener Ont gave Guelph the early lead in the preliminaries finale scoring in the fifth minute of play team Bunny Hughes of Victoria tied the game for the pandas in the 32nd minute and freshman Dana Morch of Calgary tallied the winner in the second half at the 45minute markHughes a secondteam allCanadian tied the contest on a great individual effort as she deked her way through the defence for her second tally of the day Morch potted the winner off a penalty cornerIt was a huge game said Hughes Anything can happen as we saw todaySCORING SUMMARYALB 11 2GUE 10 1First half5th GUE Brienne Stairs (2)32nd ALB Bunny Hughes (2)Second half45th ALB Dana Morch (1)GoaltendersALB Tory Spencer (W 7000 1 GA 220)GUE Kaye McLagan (L 7000 2 GA 121)Players of the gameALB Jennifer Cousineau (Coquitlam BC)GUE Kristine Wishart (Hamilton Ont)CHAMPIONSHIP SEEDING STANDINGS & SCHEDULE (all times LOCAL PACIFIC)Prechampionship seeding1 Guelph Gryphons (OUA champions)2 UBC Thunderbirds (Canada West champions)3 Victoria Vikes (second place Ca...