It’s a week of firsts for Ontario Tech College and its males’s soccer group.
On Saturday the Ridgebacks defeated the York Lions 2-1 at Lions Stadium in north Toronto to win their first ever provincial championships.
This Thursday, again dwelling at Vaso’s Subject, Ontario Tech will host its first ever nationwide championships when the most effective males’s college soccer groups within the nation come to Oshawa.
And if the whole lot falls into place, the college might be celebrating its first ever nationwide title Sunday after the gold medal sport.
The group didn’t strike concern into the hearts of their opponents in the course of the common season with an peculiar 4-4-2 document however the gamers acquired scorching on the proper second, downing Nipissing 4-1, Toronto 5-2 and McMaster on penalties to arrange the Ontario remaining, the place the Ridgebacks acquired a pair of first half targets from Erion Metaj and a few key saves from Kevon Grant to seize their first provincial crown.
“Absolutely unreal feeling this team, this group, this coaching staff. Second to none,” mentioned scoring star Metaj. “Honestly one of the best teams I’ve ever been a part of. Hard work gets you there. We deserve it.”
“It’s just that Ontario Tech DNA in us,” he added. “People can take us down, beat us down, but that’s OT – we come back up.”
The Ridgebacks, fourth-ranked nationally, tackle fifth-ranked McGill College Redbirds Thursday at 7 p.m. within the quarter-final, with the winner taking up the winners of the top-ranked UBC Thunderbirds (14-1-3) and the New Brunswick Varsity Reds (#8) sport the next day, additionally at 7 p.m.
The opposite matches have #3 St. Francis Xavier X-Males vs York (#6) and #2 Montreal Carabins vs (#7) Mount Royal Cougars on Thursday, with the winners taking part in at 4 p.m. Friday.
The championship sport is scheduled for Sunday at 2 p.m., with the bronze medal match at 11 a.m. All video games might be performed at Vaso’s Subject on the north-end of the Ontario Tech campus at Conlin Street and Simcoe Avenue.
Ontario Tech, which launched its varsity soccer program in 2009, has hosted a number of provincial championships, however this would be the college’s first nationwide championships.
“Being awarded the 2024 men’s soccer championship has our campus and community buzzing,” enthused Ontario Tech Athletics and Recreation Director Scott Barker final yr when the college was awarded the U Sports activities event, including that the college and town is “looking forward to welcoming the nation’s best players” to Ontario Tech to assist have a good time Oshawa’s 100-year anniversary.
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