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CALGARY, Alberta -- Following their longest road trip of the season, the Calgary Flames start a three-game homestand Wednesday when they host the Toronto Maple Leafs.Although they lost 2-1 in overtime to the New York Islanders on Monday, the Flames (10-13-2) finished their six-game road trip a respectable 3-2-1.Those three wins are as many as the Flames have recorded at the Scotiabank Saddledome -- they have a league-worst 3-7 record on home ice -- which is something that Calgary captain Mark Giordano said has to improve.Weve got to get some big wins at home, said Giordano, whose team also hosts the Minnesota Wild on Friday and the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday. We havent been good enough at home.The Flames get several chances to improve their home record over the coming weeks as they play six of their next eight and seven of their next 11 games in Calgary.We have to be positive coming back home here, said goaltender Brian Elliott, who made 25 saves to help the Flames salvage a point against the Islanders.Sean Monahan also has some positives to build upon as he snapped out of a five-game goalless drought in New York by scoring his sixth goal of the season in the third period.Its nice to put one in there, but at the end of the day were here for the two points and we got one out of it, Monahan said. Were got to find a way to get the job done. Unfortunately we didnt, but weve got to bounce back here at home.Calgary coach Glen Gulutzan was happy to see Monahan finally find the back of the net and hes hoping the 22-year-old center can build off of it.I think thatll be a little bit of a weight off his shoulders, Gulutzan said. 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A try two minutes from time by Warren Whiteley has earned South Africa an unconvincing 30-23 victory over Argentina in an error-strewn Rugby Championship match in Nelspruit.The touchdown capped a late fightback by the Springboks who trailed by 10 points with 10 minutes left.Number eight Whiteley went over to spare their blushes but there will be a slew of questions about the chances of the South Africans in the annual southern hemisphere championship after World Cup winners New Zealand crushed Australia earlier on Saturday.The Boks scored three tries to two for Argentina, who will consider themselves desperately unlucky not to win in South Africa for a second successive year.We need to learn how to close out a match, said Pumas captain Agustin Creevy on his 50th appearance.We are really disappointed we were not able to defend our lead but weve improved a lot over the last year.It was the home side who started brightest with a seventh-minute try as a break by five-eighth Elton Jantjies set up winger Ruan Combrinck in the right corner.After trading penalties, South Africa had a chance to extend their seven-point lead when Manuel Montero was yellow-carded for lifting an opponent in the tackle and Argentina went down to 14 men.However, Nicolas Sanchez kicked a penalty for the Pumas before centre Matias Orlando dived ovver at the end of a sweeping move.ddddddddddddSouth Africa should have scored a second try when centre Lionel Mapoe crossed the line on the stroke of halftime but he let the ball slip from his grasp.Jantjies penalty 15 minutes into the second half levelled matters at 13-13 but Sanchez, passing 400 test points in the process, restored Argentinas lead with a quarter of an hour to play with a penalty of his own.A mistake then allowed Montero to break down the wing to set up a try for Santiago Cordero as Argentina went 23-13 up.But the Boks grabbed their second try within a minute as a strong scrum and a darting break by scrumhalf Faf de Klerk and a switch pass allowed Johan Goosen to dive over before a conversion by Jantjies brought them back within three points.With the crowd suddenly lifted, pressure play from South Africa in the last 10 minutes forced a penalty from easy range and Jantjies slotted it over to equalise.Whiteley then clinched victory to set up an intriguing encounter when the two teams meet again next Saturday.We showed a lot of pride and the crowd definitely pulled us through. They gave us power but it was a game in which we struggled to hold on to the ball, said De Klerk. ' ' '