In the second game of Canadian Women's Hockey Championships, the CWHL's Brampton Canadette-Thunder claimed victory after a four goal comeback in the third period lead by Kingston's Jayna Hefford to vanquish the WWHL's Calgary Oval X-Treme 4-3.

The X-Treme took an early lead scoring just 10 seconds into the opening frame as Gina Kingsbury won the centre ice faceoff passing back to National Team defensemen, Colleen Sostorics who fed it back to Kingsbury for a breakaway. Kingsbury made a talented play to her backhand to roof it over Brampton's goaltender, Laura Hosier, for a quick 1-0 lead.

Kingsbury continued her scoring prowess deflecting a point shot past a screened Hosier as Calgary went into the dressing room after the first with a 2-0 lead and a 15-5 lead in shots on net.

The X-Treme continued to put numbers up on the scoreboard, receiving help from their talented second line as Karen McLaughlin slid a rebound past Hosier to make the game 3-0 mid way through the second period.

Hosier took over for the Thunder, shutting the X-Treme down for the rest of the period, frustrating the X-Treme's potent offence and denying several breakaways and second-shot opportunities. Brampton managed to rally around her performance, finally finding the back of the net. 

An unlucky goal for the Oval came as the point shot on goaltender Kendall Newell was redirected right to the stick on Brampton forward Nicole Ruta who buried the puck quickly giving the Thunder a new lease on life.

The Thunder came out for the third period a different team, creating chances and capitalizing on opportunities. Hoiser continued her dominance providing Brampton the safety they required to storm Newell's crease with countless scoring opportunities. Gillian Apps, a member of Canada's National Women's team scored Brampton's second goal on a walk out from behind the net drilling the puck over the X-Treme goaltender's shoulder.

National Team standout, Hefford converted a Bobbi-Jo Slusar pass past Newell to send the local fans at the K-Rock Centre into a frenzy. Less than two minutes later, with momentum on their side and only five minutes left in the third period, Hefford demonstrated why she is one of the best players in the world. She managed to deke through almost the entire Calgary team striding in on a breakaway only to be stopped by Newell. Luckily, Ruta was following up on the play and pushed the puck past the sprawled Newell into the open net, giving Brampton the lead for the first time in the game.

Hosier, Canadette-Thunder goalie, then began shutting the Oval down for the remainder of the period, despite some glorious opportunities for the X-Treme, including several opportunities late in the game.  Hosier continued to stand her ground, playing with confidence and stopping all but three of Calgary's 46 shots on net.

The player of the game for the Calgary Oval X-Treme was Gina Kingsbury and the player of the game for the Brampton Canadette-Thunder was local Kingston product, defenseman Brooke Beazer.

With the win, Brampton secures the third place seed going into tomorrow's semi -final as they will take on the second seed, their CWHL rivals, the Montreal Stars at 2:00 p.m. at the K-Rock Centre. The other semi-final features the first place seed, the Minnesota Whitecaps versus fourth place seed Calgary. That game will also be played at Kingston's K-Rock Centre at 7:00pm. The winners of both semi-final games will compete for the Clarkson Cup on Saturday, March 21st at 1pm at the K-Rock Centre. 

Courtesy of WWHL, written by Julia Wall-Clarke.