EDMONTON – Four goals in the second half led the league-leading University of Alberta Golden Bears squad to a 4-0 victory over the visiting Saskatchewan Huskies on Sept. 30 in Edmonton, AB.

Easton Ongaro recorded a natural hat trick in between the 51st and 59th minute mark after Ajeej Sarkaria started the scoring in the 48th minute.

Veteran netminder Greg Buckley made two saves in the loss for the Huskies while rookie midfielder Mason Ogoke led the offence with three shots.
 
The final score didn't tell the full story of a game where the Huskies fired ten shots towards net compared to the Golden Bears 14 and hung tough with the undefeated squad from Alberta for a vast majority of the 90 minute affair.

The two teams played a tentative first half, most of the shots either coming from a fair distance or getting blocked by defenders, making the explosive breakout to start the second half that much more surprising.

Just over three minutes into the second frame, second-year midfielder Matthew Miki found Ongaro to the outside, the Arts student putting it into the middle where Sarkaria spun around a Huskie defender to put himself in alone before sifting the ball to the far corner and recording his seventh tally of the season.

Less than four minutes later, Ongaro shimmied through another Saskatchewan rearguard before knocking the ball deep into the far corner of the Huskie net.

Yet the Bears offence was relentless, Sarkaria finding Ongaro alone to the left of the net in the 55th minute, deking out the goalie directly this time for his second of the game.

The 6'6" athlete completed the natural hat trick in the 60th minute when he took another feed from Sarkaria to net his 10th goal of the season, tying him for the conference lead with Fraser Valley's Gurmaan Jhaj.

With the game firmly in hand, the Bears played a defensive possession game, still allowing a couple of chances to Saskatchewan to stop the shutout with corners, but Alberta clogged up the 18-yard box to limit the threats.

The 3-6-1 Huskies will now have a weekend off before heading to Lethbridge for a two-game series against the Pronghorns on Oct. 13 & 14.