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The University of Saskatchewan Huskies are back to the Canada West final after a long, long, long wait.

The Huskies, who last won a playoff football game in 2009, snapped an eight-game post-season losing streak Saturday by beating the UBC Thunderbirds 31-28 in overtime.

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That victory — capped by Sean Stenger’s 38-yard overtime field goal, after the Huskies’ Jesse Kuntz sent the game into OT by scoring on a 14-yard reception with 21 seconds left in the fourth quarter — sends Saskatchewan into the Canada West final this coming Saturday against the unbeaten Calgary Dinos. Calgary downed the Manitoba Bisons 37-13 in their semifinal.

“We scrapped, we clawed, we fought. We never gave up. We never quit,” Huskies head coach Scott Flory told Adam Morrison of 600 CJWW.

The Huskies, who failed to make the playoffs last season, took a 5-3 record into the game with UBC, which had an identical record.

UBC’s Travel Pinto gave his team a 28-21 lead when he caught a four-yard touchdown pass with 1:46 left in the fourth quarter. When Saskatchewan quarterback Kyle Siemens threw an interception 25 seconds later, the game looked like it might be over.