SASKATOON – The four goals scored were split evenly between the Saskatchewan Huskies and Manitoba Bisons women's soccer teams in a game played in Saskatoon on Sunday afternoon.

Maya Gabruch scored her sixth of the season and Haley Mercier her first for the Huskies who move to 4-2-2 in the 2019 season with the draw.

Nicole Davis and Jessica Tsai answered for the Bisons. It was Davis' third goal of the season and Tsai's fifth. Manitoba now sits at 4-3-1 on the season.

The result does little to clear an extremely murky top of the Prairie Division standings, where the MacEwan Griffins, Huskies, Alberta Pandas and Bisons are separated by just two points.

Manitoba got the scoring going early. Just eight minutes into the game Davis beat a defender on a twisting run and curled the ball to the far side past Jadyn Steinhauer in the Huskies' net.

Gabruch responded for the Huskies in the 25th minute, as her strike from outside the box screamed its way into the top corner past Karina Bagi.

Saskatchewan took a 2-1 lead into the halftime break thanks to a goal from Mercier in the 41st minute of play.

Hannah Zdunich-Costa sent a ball into the box from a free-kick, Taneil Gay got on the end of it and flicked the ball into the path of Mercier and the product of Saskatoon made no mistake in burying the ball into the back of the net.

A back-and-forth second half of play saw just one goal scored, but it was an important one for Manitoba, allowing them to secure a vital point away from home.

Off a free-kick sent into the box by Gabrielle Clark, Jessica Tsai was the first to react, sending the ball into the back of the net for her team-leading fifth goal of the season.

Both of these teams will be on the road next weekend.

Manitoba will travel to Edmonton to face the Griffins and Pandas, while the Huskies visit southern Alberta for games against the Mount Royal Cougars and Lethbridge Pronghorns.

All of that action can be watched online at Canada West TV presented by Co-op.