Bobcats fall to Pilots, settle for No. 2 seed
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This article was published 22/10/2023 (896 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The good news for the Brandon University Bobcats is trophies aren’t won in the Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference regular season.
They clinched a women’s soccer playoff spot weeks ago but settled for second place with a 2-1 loss to the Providence Pilots in Otterburne on Sunday.
Shanti Church had the lone goal for the Bobcats, sandwiched between Pilots markers by Paige Heide and Laurianne Chaison in an action-packed final 15 minutes of the first half.
“They just played well, that’s all,” Bobcats head coach Orlin Chalmers said of the Pilots.
“They got opportunities and put them in the back of the net and we just didn’t put key opportunities away. That’s the only thing that really happened in the game.”
The two teams finished tied for first at 10-2-0, with the Pilots taking the head-to-head tiebreaker 2-1. Brandon only needed a draw but came up one goal short.
It might be a blessing in disguise for BU, which beat its semifinal opponent, Canadian Mennonite University 1-0 on Saturday while registering 20 shots on goal to the Blazers’ four.
Kenadie Janzen finished a nifty passing play with Church for the game-winner in the second half.
On Sunday, the Blazers lost 2-0 to the three-time defending champion St. Boniface Les Rouges, who should have been a top-two seed if not for forfeiting their first six games due to an eligibility issue after the fact.
Chalmers said this Saturday’s opponent wasn’t going to change how his team prepared anyway.
“It’s the same approach throughout,” he said. “Obviously, with a little bit better focus game by game but it’s the same approach. We’re going to win and we’re going to perform well and that’s all.”
BU MEN LOSE 5-2
The Bobcat men were in a similar spot, but a 2-1 loss to CMU on Saturday meant only a win at Providence would be enough for first place.
Joel Umeh scored a hat trick for the hosts in a 5-2 thrashing.
Julien Dizengremel and Victor Andrade found the net for Brandon to cut into three-goal deficits but never got closer.
“They jumped off to a really good start and we didn’t have a good start,” Bobcats head coach Glen McNabb said.
BU plays CMU in Saturday’s semifinals, while Providence takes on the defending champion St. Boniface Les Rouges.
The Blazers are the one squad the Bobcats haven’t beaten this year, as they lost 1-0 and tied 2-2 in their other meetings.
“Either way, you’ve got to win two games next week whether it’s CMU or it’s St. B,” McNabb said. “Not a whole lot of difference I don’t think in those two teams, they play a similar style. Basically, we just got to be hungry enough to play the full 90 minutes.”
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