Edmonton, AB - The Edmonton Rush made it three home wins in a row with an exciting 11-9 win over provincial-rival Calgary Roughnecks in National Lacrosse League action Apr. 5 at Rexall Place.

In the first of three key West Division matchups between the two teams, the Rush moved past Calgary into the fourth and final playoff spot as Edmonton improved to 4-7 with the win, while Calgary fell to 4-9.

The see-saw Battle of Alberta featured 10 lead changes and Edmonton’s Jimmy Quinlan led the Rush with four goals and one assist on the night to take the team lead with 18 goals, while goaltender Curtis Palidwor – the NLL player of the month for March – made 32 saves in the victory. Former Rush goalie Pat Campbell was tagged with the loss for Calgary despite making 37 saves.

“The biggest thing for us was we stayed the course with our game plan and it worked out in the end, so hats off to everyone with the effort,” said Quinlan. “This team has confidence, trust and belief in ourselves. The key for us is going to be hard work and we can’t take any shifts off and if everyone plays hard like this we’ll enjoy coming to the rink.”

Mike Hominuck and Lindsay Plunkett each scored twice and added two assists for four points for Edmonton, while Scott Ranger (3 goals) and Tracy Kelusky (1G, 3 assists) paced Calgary.

The Roughnecks hit the board first as Josh Sanderson found the five-hole on Palidwor at 2:27 of the first quarter before Edmonton’s Dan Stroup replied with his 14th of the season at 3:22 to tie the score 1-1. Calgary then hit pay dirt on the power-play at 5:00 as Scott Ranger’s tally put the Roughnecks up 2-1.

Edmonton’s Quinlan then sniped his 15th of the campaign, 2:16 into the second quarter, before Plunkett picked up his own rebound and his diving shot bested Campbell at 4:01. Calgary’s Tracy Kelusky then tied the game at 3-3 with his tally just 35-seconds later.

Quinlan, with his second of the night on a sidewinder at 5:23, put Edmonton back up 4-3, before Kelly Hall’s left-handed blast at 9:05 evened the game at 4-4.

The teams continued to trade goals as Calgary took the lead on Ranger’s second of the night, on the power-play at 12:47, before Edmonton’s Plunkett picked up a loose ball and found the net at 13:19 to keep the score level at 5-5 and end the scoring in the first half. Edmonton outshot Calgary 21-16 at the half.

Scoring slowed in the third quarter as the teams traded singles as Ranger -- Calgary’s leading scorer -- earned the hat-trick with his diving shot just 46 ticks into the third quarter to put Calgary up 6-5, then Quinlan tallied his hat-trick goal with 19 seconds remaining to level the score.

The action on the carpet heated up in the fourth quarter as Stroup’s second of the night at 1:46 in lifted the Rush to a 7-6 lead, however, Kaleb Toth’s one-timer 44-seconds later again tied the score, before the Rush tallied two more goals as Quinlan fired his fourth of the night at 6:58 and Mike Hominuck’s marker at 7:59 put Edmonton up 9-8.

The lead was short-lived as Calgary’s Sanderson tallied in traffic at 9:54 notching the score at 9-9, before Edmonton defender Buck Stobart’s slick moves at 12:55 earned his first goal of the season and moved the Rush up 10-9. Hominuck then fired his second of the night, at 13:12, giving Edmonton the first two-goal bulge of the night and closed out the scoring.

The Rush next go on the road for three consecutive games, visiting San Jose Apr. 11, Calgary Apr. 12 and Colorado Apr. 19, before hosting the Colorado Mammoth Apr. 19 at Rexall Place.