North Bay, Ontario – Nipissing Lakers Men's Soccer split their weekend at home, collecting a win and loss in two OUA regular season matchups.
Saturday, October 3
rd saw the Queen's Gaels make the trip north to Nipissing for a 2:15PM kickoff.
It was Queen's that opened the scoring at 31:43 to take a 1-0 lead that would subsequently hold until the end of the half.
In the second half, Nipissing broke through and tied the game at one goal apiece as
Gianni Bordieri made no mistake with a rocket of a shot.
In the 71
st minute, it was
Kojo Mensah that made no mistake and scored to put the Lakers up 2-1.
Nipissing and Queen's battled hard to the end of the match, with a total of 8 cards being handed out during the final 30 minutes of play. The Lakers managed to hold on and collect a 2-1 win.
Nipissing outshot Queen's 6-5 in the win. Nipissing keeper
Dante Emmanuel made 3 saves.
Then, on Sunday, October 4
th, the University of Toronto Varisty Blues were the opponents as the Lakers looked to end the weekend with another victory.
Toronto opened the scoring at 6:44 and controlled play for much of the half. Toronto struck again at 42:16 and 45:00 to take a 3-0 lead into the half.
Nipissing made five substitutions at halftime to try and breathe some life into the match.
The Lakers got on the board at 78:39 when
Brenden Eyckerman scored to cut the Toronto lead to two goals.
Nipissing would try their best to generate momentum off of the goal, but Toronto took the match 3-1.
Toronto outshot Nipissing 7-3 in the match. Nipissing keeper Dante Emannuel collected 3 saves in the loss. Toronto out-fouled Nipissing 7-5.
The win and loss moves Men's Soccer to a 3-5-1 record, good for 10 points and 7
th place in the OUA East.
Men's Soccer is back in action on Friday, October 9
th on the road at the Carleton Ravens at 7:00PM. Watch the match live on OUA.tv.
