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Posted: Sat February 14, 1998 at 9:49 a.m EST United States 7, Canada 4 -------------------------Cammi Granato had two goals and an assist and Laurie Baker scored twice as the United States erased a three-goal deficit with six unanswered goals in the third period and beat Canada, 7-4, in a preview of the gold-medal game. Jen Schmidgall, Tricia Dunn, and Lisa Brown-Miller also scored and A.J. Mleczko collected a pair of assists for the United States in a game that had no bearing on the medal chase. The Americans won all five of their preliminary round games and outscored their foes by a 33-7 margin. They will square off against Canada in the gold-medal contest on Tuesday. Lori Dupuis had two goals and an assist and Therese Brisson notched a goal and an assist for Canada, which finished at 4-1. All of Canada's goals came on the power play. Canada and the U.S. traded goals in the first period as Dupuis' power-play marker opened the scoring at 3:01 and Granato answered with her third of the tournament with 40 seconds left, also on the power play. After a scoreless second, Canada scored three goals in the first six minutes of the third. Dupuis picked up her second goal of the game 1:24 into the period and Jayna Hefford added her first a little more than four minutes later. Just 25 seconds later, Brisson gave Canada a 4-1 lead, putting her fifth goal of the tournament past Sara Decosta, who replaced Sarah Tueting 10:37 into the second. The Americans began their comeback at 7:05 on Baker's third goal of the tournament. Granato pulled the U.S. within a goal with her fourth at 10:57 and Schmidgall's power-play goal at 12:25 tied the game at 4-4. Dunn gave the American's their first lead with her first goal 23 seconds later. Brown-Miller notched her first at 17:06 and Baker closed out the scoring with an empty-netter with two seconds left. Decosta finished with 22 saves for the Americans, who had three goals in nine power-play chances. Lesley Reddon stopped 23 of 29 shots for Canada.
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