EDMONTON – The University of Saskatchewan Huskies women's volleyball team couldn't string together the points when they needed them the most in a loss to the MacEwan Griffins in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon.

Despite leading in the fourth set the Huskies surrendered a 9-1 run to close out the weekend with a 3-1(25-16, 20-25, 25-20, 25-22) loss to MacEwan.

MacEwan improves to 4-2 on the season, while dropping Saskatchewan to 2-2 as the Huskies followed up their season-opening sweep of the Brandon Bobcats with two-straight losses in Edmonton.

Ogle led the Griffins with four aces, while adding 10 kills, four blocks and 13 digs. Hailey Cornelis, was strong from the other side, with 11 kills and 15 digs, while McKenna Stevenson had 10 kills from the middle for the second-straight match, adding a game-high seven blocks.

For the Huskies Taylor Annala with 12 kills and 11 digs along with Regan Wiebe who recorded 10 kills and 15 digs, led the way.

There were plenty of times the Huskies had the Griffins on the ropes, forcing them into scrambles and long points. But the effort from MacEwan's defence, which combined for 76 digs and 12.0 blocks was tooth and nail. Multiple times, they sent a free ball over to the Huskies, who missed opportunities to put it away and saw crucial points go to the Griffins.

"That's the tough thing – they're giving us some easy balls and we're turning around and not scoring a point," said Huskies head coach Mark Dodds. "Ultimately, those are the easy times of the game, the times you feel like you should execute, and we didn't today.

"On that note, I've got to give a lot of credit to MacEwan because their defence was as scrappy as it gets. They probably had 15 one-handed digs on hard-hit balls. You just don't see that every day. It was fun to watch in a sense, but very, very frustrating to watch at the same time."

Dodds' squad doubled down on the late-match disappointment by losing commanding leads in both fourth sets over the weekend. The Huskies now head home to prepare to for their home openers against the Calgary Dinos on Nov. 9-10.