2006 CIS Thread

[argh1]

Mounties win...Mounties win!

Okay they beat Moncton 1-0 on a goal by Ian McLeod in the 71st minute.

Aigles Bleus are home to Dal Tigers today and Mounties visit the V-Reds.

[EZmac]

Some surprises this weekend so far, which just point to how close it will be in Canada West this year.

UofS - 1 - 1 - UofA

UBC - 0 - 0 - UVic

UofC - 1 - 0 UCFV

UofC - 1 - 0 - TWU

TWU - 2 - 0 Uof L

UofL - 1 - 1 - UCFV (This was UCFV first ever goal and point in CIS)

UofA - 1 - 0 - UofS

[loyola]

Here's the weekend results for Quebec:

Friday

Laval 1-1 UQTR

Montreal 3-0 UQAM

Mcgill 2-1 Sherbrooke

Sunday

Laval 0-0 UQAM

UQTR 1-1 Mcgill

Sherbrooke 0-0 Concordia

Today's results are showing that this league is a tough one, all the teams are pretty equal.

[gwsmith63]

quote:Originally posted by Sigma

Carleton defeated Trent 4-0 yesterday.

In the second game of a home and home weekend, Carleton defeated Trent 1-0 today in Ottawa.

Trent battled hard and would appear to be a tougher (both physically and mentally) squad this season.

Saying that, Carleton had numerous chances to score a more decisive victory but three points will do to go along with the three from Saturday.

gwsmith

[argh1]

Mounties win again 1-0 at UNB and Moncton ties Dal 2-2

Current AUS/SUA Standings

[EZmac]

Victoria, UBC hold on to No. 1 rankings

OTTAWA (CIS) - The reigning national champion University of Victoria Vikes (women) and University of British Columbia Thunderbirds (men) remain atop the Canadian Interuniversity Sport soccer national polls for the third consecutive week.

The Vikes women kept on rolling this past week, improving their regular season record to a perfect 3-0-0 with a 4-2 win over Regina and a 2-0 shutout of Manitoba. The defending CIS champions will be tested this weekend as they hit the road for the first time in 2006. Victoria is set to face a pair of first-class opponents in Trinity Western (3-0-1) and Canada West newcomer UCFV (2-2-0) on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

The McGill Martlets (2-0-0) move past the Ottawa Gee-Gees (3-0-2) in second place in the new poll.

The Martlets were perfect in their opening weekend with a 2-0 shutout of Sherbrooke and a 4-0 whitewash against UQTR. The Gee-Gees were off last week.

Three new teams make their way into the CIS women's soccer Top 10 this week, including Laval (2-0-0), Brock (4-1-1) and Dalhousie (3-1-0).

On the men's side, the Thunderbirds (2-0-1) remain atop the national rankings despite settling for a scoreless tie against Victoria in their lone outing of the weekend. The stingy UBC defence has yet to allow a goal in after three regular season outings.

The reigning CIS champions make their way to Alberta on Saturday and Sunday where they will face Lethbridge (0-2-2) and the dangerous Calgary Dinos. The previously unranked Dinos, who have scored a Canada-West-high six goals while allowing only one thus far in 2006, move all the way to No. 6 in the new poll following a pair of 1-0 victories including one over Trinity Western, ranked sixth in the nation going into the contest.

No. 2 Toronto (5-0-0), No. 3 Western Ontario (5-0-1) and No. 4 Montreal (1-0-0) stay put behind UBC, while McGill (1-0-1) and Carleton (3-1-1) join Calgary as Top 10 newcomers.

WOMEN'S SOCCER

(regular season record) / (previous week) / (points in voting)

1. Victoria (3-0-0) / (1) / (50 pts)

2. McGill (2-0-0) / (3) / (43 pts)

3. Ottawa (3-0-2) / (2) / (38 pts)

4. Alberta (4-0-0) / (4) / (37 pts)

5. Queen's (4-0-1) / (7) / (28 pts)

6. UBC (2-1-0) / (6) / (25 pts)

7. Calgary (2-1-1) / (5) / (19 pts)

8. Laval (2-0-0) / (NR) / (10 pts)

9. McMaster (3-0-3) / (10) / (9 pts)

T10. Brock (4-1-1) / (NR) / (5 pts)

T10. Dalhousie (3-1-0) / (NR) / (5 pts)

Other teams receiving votes: Memorial (4), Cape Breton (3), StFX (2)

MEN'S SOCCER

(regular season record) / (previous week)

1. UBC (2-0-1) / (1)

2. Toronto (5-0-0) / (2)

3. Western Ontario (5-0-1) / (3)

4. Montreal (1-0-0) / (4)

5. Alberta (2-0-2) / (9)

6. Calgary (3-1-0) / (NR)

7. Brock (3-1-2) / (8)

8. UPEI (2-1-0) / (5)

9. McGill (1-0-1) / (NR)

10. Carleton (3-1-1) / (NR)

-CIS-

[gwsmith63]

The top 4 in the OUA East played off on Saturday, September 23rd.

Carleton were at U of T and came away with a 0-0 draw.

Laurentian played Queen's in Kingston and took all three points in a 3-2 win.

Top of the OUA EAST looks like this:

Team GP W L T PTS

Toronto 6 5 0 1 16

Laurentian 7 4 2 1 13

Carleton 6 3 1 2 11

Queen's 6 3 2 1 10

Should be a cracking run-in to the playoffs!

gwsmith

[argh1]

Mounties are on a roll.

2-1 over X with the Capers in Sackville today. Can they go 4 in a row.

Moncton 0-3 to the V-Reds. Aigles Bleus have one tie in 5 games. Their next game will be next Saturday when the Panthers of UPEI visit.

[Soccerpro]

The Capers are the class of the AUS this year surprisingly, I think the Mounties will be hard pressed to take points off of them.

[DJT]

quote:Originally posted by gwsmith63

Carleton were at U of T and came away with a 0-0 draw.

Well, at Toronto, anyway. No one is playing at U of T per se this year as the new Varsity is still being built. U of T are using Birchmount Stadium for soccer and football and perhaps other sports.

Oh well, there goes the only remaining perfect record in the country. Still undefeated, anyway. [8D]

[gwsmith63]

quote:Originally posted by DJT

Well, at Toronto, anyway. No one is playing at U of T per se this year as the new Varsity is still being built. U of T are using Birchmount Stadium for soccer and football and perhaps other sports.

Oh well, there goes the only remaining perfect record in the country. Still undefeated, anyway. [8D]

Ummm, OK thanks.

It is still U of T right? Or is it just Toronto now? Don't see where I referenced anything about the stadium but, again, thanks for the construction update.

gwsmith63

[DJT]

No problem with what you posted. My comments were just FYI. It is of course true that today's game was "at U of T" in that U of T was the home team, but I just thought I'd mention that it was not on the U of T campus, though still in the city of Toronto.

Here's the Varsity construction on September 14:

[gwsmith63]

quote:Originally posted by DJT

No problem with what you posted. My comments were just FYI. It is of course true that today's game was "at U of T" in that U of T was the home team, but I just thought I'd mention that it was not on the U of T campus, though still in the city of Toronto.

Cheers!

Were you at the game today? If so, how was it? Carleton don't seem to be able to score goals against the tougher teams at the moment. 0-0 v Laurentian, 1-2 v Queen's and 0-0 v U of T. Might cost them in the playoffs.

gwsmith

PS: How the f*%$ do you get 4409 posts??????? [:0]

[argh1]

quote:Originally posted by Soccerpro

The Capers are the class of the AUS this year surprisingly, I think the Mounties will be hard pressed to take points off of them.

Great prediction. Mounties 0-2 Capers, Cape Breton is some what of a surprise on top of the standings.

Current AUS/SUA standings

EDIT:

As is said aprés-pos of nothing I thought I'd through in Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association standings. St. Thomas who is the only AUS school not fielding a team in AUS plays ACAA.

ACAA standings

[loyola]

A crowd of 800 saw the game between Laval and U de Montreal yesterday. The game ended 0-0 with Laval playing with 10 for the last 40 minutes.

What arethe crowds like in the rest of the country? I think 800 is alot for a CIS game.

[loyola]

Some of the teams have 0 in attendance which is impossible or some always have the same number (100 or 150). I'm not sure those numbers are right.

[loyola]

Yes, you're right I should be more patient .

So the 778 was a very good crowd.

[Soccerpro]

No one watches any AUS games. If theres a meaningful end of the year game between SMU or dal is could draw a few hundred. UPEI is probably the best attended team, but they dont even have more than a hundred or two hundred at the very most, Cape breton is probably the 2nd most attended team right now. Playoff games between SMU and DAL used to be able to draw 2-3K 5-10 years ago. Just like the NSSL there hasnt been the support there used to be.

[EZmac]

I'd say attendance this year for Bears games has been up. Probably due to the nice weather we've been having. Around 140. The Pandas usually outdraw the Bears games. I think because there are more local players, so more family, friends, and alumni.

In case you didn't know I'm talking about the University of Alberta.

[EZmac]

UVic women, UBC men lead fourth straight polls

OTTAWA (CIS) - The reigning national champion University of Victoria Vikes (women) and University of British Columbia Thunderbirds (men) remain atop the Canadian Interuniversity Sport soccer national polls for the fourth consecutive week.

The Vikes women (4-0-1) remained undefeated but dropped their first points of the season over the weekend. UVic blanked Trinity Western 3-0 on Friday night but had to settle for a 1-1 draw against CIS newcomers, the UCFV Cascades on Saturday. The Vikes travel to Saskatchewan and Alberta this week with stops in Saskatoon to play the 2-4-0 Huskies and Edmonton, where they'll battle the No. 4-ranked Pandas (5-1-0).

The Ottawa Gee-Gees (6-0-2) join the McGill Martlets (3-0-1) in a tie at No. 2 in the new poll, while Alberta and the No. 5 Queen's Golden Gaels (6-1-1) stay put and round out the top five.

McGill tied No. 7 Laval 1-1 before cruising to a 5-0 win over Concordia, while Ottawa was perfect during a three-game road trip, including a 2-1 win over Queen's.

Meanwhile, the UBC Thunderbirds (2-2-1) drop three positions in the rankings to No. 9 after settling for a single point in two outings.

The Top 10 leader on the men's side also had its first hiccup of the season this past weekend as No. 1 UBC (3-0-1) played the No. 5 Calgary Dinos to a 1-1 tie on Sunday, 24 hours after edging Lethbridge 2-1. The 'Birds host the undefeated, No. 6 Alberta Golden Bears (3-0-3) and Saskatchewan (2-3-1) this week.

The Toronto Varsity Blues (5-0-1), Western Ontario Mustangs (5-0-2) and Montreal Carabins (2-0-1) remain behind UBC in the national poll, while the Dinos (4-1-1) leapfrog past the Bears in fifth place following their result against the top-ranked 'Birds and a wild 4-3 win over Victoria.

Cape Breton and Dalhousie, who have identical 4-1-1 records in the AUS, both make their way into the Top 10 this week.

WOMEN'S SOCCER

(regular season record) / (previous week) / (points in voting)

1. Victoria (4-0-1) / (1) / 40 pts

T2. McGill (3-0-1) / (2) / 34 pts

T2. Ottawa (6-0-2) / (3) / 34 pts

4. Alberta (5-1-0) / (4) / 28 pts

5. Queen's (6-1-1) / (5) / 24 pts

6. Calgary (4-1-1) / (7) / 20 pts

7. Laval (2-0-2) / (8) / 14 pts

8. McMaster (4-0-4) / (9) / 10 pts

9. UBC (2-2-1) / (6) / 7 pts

10. Cape Breton (5-1-0) / (NR) / 5 pts

Other teams receiving votes: Dalhousie (4), Trinity Western (3)

MEN'S SOCCER

(regular season record) / (previous week)

1. UBC (3-0-1) / (1)

2. Toronto (5-0-1) / (2)

3. Western Ontario (5-0-2) / (3)

4. Montreal (2-0-1) / (4)

5. Calgary (4-1-1) / (6)

6. Alberta (3-0-3) / (5)

7. Brock (4-1-2) / (7)

8. McGill (2-0-2) / (9)

9. Cape Breton (4-1-1) / (NR)

10. Dalhousie (4-1-1) / (NR)

-CIS-

[EZmac]

Defending CIS champ UBC suffers first setback, loses 3-1 to No. 6 Bears

VANCOUVER - In a battle between a pair of undefeated Canada West rivals, the defending national champion and top-ranked UBC men's soccer team fell 3-1 to sixth-ranked Alberta Saturday afternoon at Wolfson Field.

The Thunderbirds dropped to a 3-1-2 on the regular season, while the Golden Bears remain unblemished and temporarily moved into the top spot in the conference standings with a 4-0-3 mark.

Despite jumping out to an early advantage, UBC struggled to create good quality scoring opportunities for most of the match. Normally an offensive power, the T-Birds failed to truly pressure the Alberta defence for any length of time, whereas the high-octane Bears were constantly in T-Bird territory and fired eight shots at UBC 'keeper Elliott Usher.

"We didn't generate enough scoring chances and they did," lamented UBC head coach Mike Mosher. "We knew going in that it would be a free-flowing contest and that both teams would want to push the play and get at each other. We didn't push the way we wanted to though and we 're going to have to come out harder tomorrow."

Nic Poole gave the home side a 1-0 edge three minutes in, tapping a Blair Robertson strike from more than 25 yards out passed Alberta 'keeper Dan Gusberti after the T-Birds caught their opponents off guard with a quick corner. But the Bears equalized before the half was out on a pretty passing play as Danny Nielsen placed a corner kick onto the head of Mark Korthuis, who soared above the scrum just inside the 18-yard box to touch it to an uncovered John Konye. Konye made no mistake from in close and cracked a header under the crossbar to even the count at 1-1.

The Bears continued to roll in the second half, scoring a pair of controversial goals in the 61st and 86th minutes, respectively. On the first marker, Konye scored his second of the day from well out, burying a strike bottom right that somehow found its way through the T-Birds defence and passed Usher's outstretched arms. Jr. Castrillon-Rendon was camped in front of the UBC net on the play and the T-Birds lobbied for an offside call, but the linesman did not raise his flag. Then, in the final minutes of play Castrillon-Rendon sealed the victory for the visitors on a penalty shot, converting his second attempt after Usher, who had made the initial save, was whistled for leaving his line prematurely.

Minutes before the Castrillon-Rendon goal, Steve Frazao had an excellent opportunity to tie it up but Gusberti came out of nowhere and sprawled across the mouth of the goal to push the ball out of harm's way.

"I thought that there were a few officiating decisions that had a real impact on the game," said Mosher. "But, regardless, we need to play better. Our attention is now on Sask and we can't dwell on what happened here today. It's important for us to come away with a couple of points on our own turf this weekend and we'll have another crack at it tomorrow."

UBC takes to the pitch to play Saskatchewan tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Wolfson Field.

-30-

Source:

Marc Weber

UBC Sports Info

[EZmac]

Gaels stun No. 2 Toronto

KINGSTON, Ont. - The Queen's Golden Gaels handed the No. 2-ranked University of Toronto Varsity Blues, CIS finalists in 2005, their first loss of the regular season on Saturday edging their OUA East rivals 2-1 at Richardson Stadium.

With the win, the Gaels (5-2-1) join the Blues (5-1-1) atop the OUA East standings with 16 points. Toronto has one game in hand.

The Gaels jumped on the Blues early with Chris Gencarelli drawing a penalty kick in the 8th minute. Gencarelli stepped up and converted the penalty kick to make it 1-0.

In the 24th minute Rick Paudyn made it 2-0 when he blasted a shot by Toronto goalkeeper Matthew Willis. Late in the opening half the Blues got back into the game.

Jose D'Amora beat Gaels keeper Tyler Lewis with a hard shot to the right corner in the 43rd minute to make it 2-1.

In the second half Toronto a strong wind at their back carried the play to the Gaels.

The Blues had numerous chances hitting the post and crossbar and forcing Lewis to make four stops.

-30-

Source:

Queen's Sports Info

[EZmac]

With the #1 and #2 ranked teams going down this weekend there is certain to be a new #1 most likely Montreal with Alberta being ranked #2 (or vice versa).

Stay tuned season is half over now.

[bmac]

I have not been out yet this year to watch the Golden Bears.

Excellent results from what has often been a "killer" week-end to the coast. The victory over UBC followed [according to the CIS web-site]by a 2-0 victory over UVic.

[bettermirror]

I was at both the men/women matches between UCFV/TWU on Saturday evening. The women drew 0-0 despite TWU being awarded a penalty and UCFV having a player sent off - unrelated to the penalty. It was a horrendous tackle and that woman could be out for a very lengthy period. TWU had a ball cleared spectacularly off the line as it was destined for the top corner with about 30 seconds left.

The TWU men manhandled young UCFV 3-0 in a stroll. TWU should be top 10. They were fantastic. Their #10 in the holding midfield role is roy keane incarnate. Stefan Leslie (being touted as a u20 winger by TWU - though has no chance at displacing Peters, and has not been on any rosters I can recall recently) was brilliant at right wing. Extremely quick, but relatively poor I thought at crossing and can't recall any strikes on goal. Excellent feet.

Should be noted UCFV was informed by their own Athletic Director the day of their first match that three starters were inelligble due to poor grades - Spencer Schmidt being one of those players. THink the average age for the UCFV men's squad is 19ish. They'll be a top BC team within 3 years. Yet again Abbotsford has won the u16 provincials (I think that is 3 out of 4 years).

TWU man of the match was also an Abbotsford kid and played with the majority of the UCFV players at youth level. (and may play with them as they try to build a premier men's team in the fraser valley)