The Arizona Sting punched its ticket Saturday night for the NLL Champion's Cup Final, using a six-goal run in the fourth quarter to sneak past the Calgary Roughnecks, 19-15, at the Saddledome.

Arizona moves on to play the Toronto Rock in the championship game, Saturday, 14 May at Air Canada Centre.

The contest was certainly not a textbook demonstration of defense, not with 34 goals scored and just 65 saves total between Calgary goaltender Curtis Palidwor and Arizona backstop Mike Miron.

Palidwor went so far as to pin the loss on himself, telling the Calgary Sun afterwards, "I played terrible. I think I let this entire team down."

"We had a three-goal lead in the second half and I just couldn't stop anything."

That's not to say that Miron was a whole lot better, at least not in the first half. "Tiny" surrendered four first-quarter goals to the Roughnecks, then staggered through a horrible second quarter in which he nearly allowed as many goals (five) as he made saves (six).

Ted Dowling put the first chink in Miron's armor, scoring just 39 seconds into the game. Dan Dawson and Craig Conn countered moments later for Arizona's only lead of the first half, but Jeff Moleski soon brought the game back to all square.

That's where it stayed for six minutes, until Tracey Kelusky struck for the first of his four goals on the night. Dawson tied the game at 3-3 two minutes later, but Kaleb Toth reestablished the Roughnecks' lead in the final minute of the first quarter.

Goals by Jason Wulder and Kelusky made the score 6-3 four minutes into the second period, but Arizona roared back a few moments later, flipping goals by Jason Clark, Conn and Noah Talbot into a six-all tie.

Calgary countered with three straight goals of its own, as Toth, Brad MacDonald, and Wulder scored 50 seconds apart in the closing minutes of the first half.

Dawson cut the gap to 9-7 with a goal just 20 seconds before intermission.

The Roughnecks stretched their lead to 11-7 on two Lewis Ratcliff goals midway through the third quarter, but Arizona wiped away much of that advantage on goals by Peter Lough, Lindsay Plunkett and Conn.

Rich Catton, though, put the lead back to two with 1:02 left in the third, and the Riggers continued pouring it on in the fourth, with Tracey Kelusky making it 13-10 just 44 seconds into the final period.

Then a funny thing happened -- Bob Hamley's Scorpions stopped playing like roadkill on Calgary's drive to repeat as league champion, and started playing like a team that wanted the Champion's Cup all for itself.

Clark scored a seemingly innocent little goal at 3:08, and even after Pat Maddalena popped one three minutes later, the Riggers still weren't showing a whole lot of concern.

After all, Arizona had pulled within a goal a couple times but hadn't been able to tie the game since the first quarter.

Jonas Derks took care of that little problem at 8:34 and Conn put the Sting ahead a half-minute later.

Dawson and Mark Cochrane closed out the run, stretching the Sting's lead to 16-13 and leaving Calgary feeling, well, a little Roughed up on its home turf.

"I think we caught [Calgary] a little off guard" with the six-goal run, Hamley told the Glendale Star. "They might have been packing their bags for Toronto. I think they're all in a state of shock."

Kelusky and Ratcliff rallied Calgary to within 16-15, but, ironically enough, it was now the Roughnecks who couldn't find the equalizer.

What's more, it didn't take the Sting long to restore a comfortable lead. Fourteen seconds after Ratcliff's goal, Maddalena made it a 17-15 game, and ten seconds after that, Peter Veltman was piling on a goal of his own.

Bruce Codd -- who had all of three regular-season scores -- potted a meaningless empty-net goal with two seconds left.

Conn and Dawson scored four goals each to lead the Sting, and Kelusky did likewise for the Roughnecks. Ratcliff, though, had the game high in points, recording three goals and four assists.