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Seeking the team’s first medal since 2000, the St. Clair Saints failed to make it to the podium at the OCAA men’s soccer championship.
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The same problem that hampered the Saints in the team’s semifinal loss on Friday emerged once again in a 4-2 bronze medal game loss to Seneca Sting on Saturday.
The Saints fell behind early and were never able to recover when Seneca scored in the first three minutes of the game and opened up a 3-0 lead in the 18th minute of the first half.
St. Clair came within two goals at the half with a penalty goal from Mateo Grahovac and Evan Mendonca converted the game from a goal in the 50th th minute.
The Saints had a pair of scoring chances in the next 15 minutes before Seneca regained his two-goal lead at 68. th minute on the way to the medal. Humber beat George Brown 4-0 in the gold medal match to claim the school’s third consecutive title.
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Cross country saints
The St. Clair Saints won team medals in the men’s and women’s divisions at the OCAA Cross Country Championships in Caledon on Saturday with Tyler Jones also landing on the podium individually.
St. Clair and Fanshawe dominated the men’s 8K race and the two teams combined to place nine runners in the top 10.
Jones led the Saints with a silver medal in 26 minutes and 33 seconds. Teammates Jake Fitzpatrick followed in fourth at 26:51, Rick Nepomuceno was fifth at 27:10 and Matt Lafleur was 10 th at 29:50, but the Saints had to settle for team silver behind Fanshawe’s four scorers running first, third, sixth and seventh.
Jones, Fitzpatrick and Nepomuceno were first-team selections in all conferences, while Lafleur was a second-team selection.
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Freshman Melody Knight was named a first team selection after a seventh place in the women’s 6km race in 27:02. Mya Palumbo was eighth in 27:03 and Lily Pattinson was 14 th at 27:24 to win second team honors. Hailey Jones rounded out all four of St. Clair’s scoring runners with 17 th – Final place at 27:34 when the Saints claimed the team’s silver.
With the performance, St. Clair will send both the men’s and women’s teams to the nationals, which are scheduled for November 13 in Calgary.
Lancers Drop Final
Needing a win for a shot at an OUA football playoff spot, the University of Windsor Lancers fell 66-0 to the No. 2-ranked Western Mustangs on Saturday at Alumni Field.
On the second play of the game, Lancer quarterback Sam Girard was forced to leave the game after being caught and fumbled, allowing the Mustangs to open the scoring just 44 seconds into the game. .
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With the victory, Western (5-1) secured first place in the Western Division, while the Lancers (2-4) failed to make the playoffs despite defeating two of the top five ranked teams this season.
Flyers win another
The Leamington Flyers rallied from a two-goal deficit after the first period to score a 5-3 road win over the Strathroy Rockets on Saturday in the Western Conference player in the Greater Ontario Youth Hockey League.
Connor MacPherson scored three goals for Leamington, who have now won seven games in a row, with all three goals set up by his twin brother Ryan MacPherson. Blake McNally and Gavin Grundner added unique goals for the first-place Flyers (10-2-0-0), while goalkeeper Boe Piroski made 34 saves against the eighth-place Rockets (2-8-1-2). .
Flags drop admirals
The Mooretown Flags scored three unanswered goals in the third period to beat the visiting Amherstburg Admrials 5-2 on Saturday in the Bill Stobbs Division game of the Provincial Youth Hockey League.
Owen Papulkas and Andrew Clark scored for the Admirals (3-5-0-1) in fifth place against the Flags (6-1-0-0) in third place.
Reference-windsorstar.com