It was a beautiful fall evening at Griffiths Stadium where the University of Saskatchewan Huskies Men’s Soccer team hosting the MacEwan Griffins where the Huskies are looking to end their season on a high note with one more regular season game after tonight’s contest. Although they came up on the losing side once again, they still had a performance worthy of being proud of.

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The game started out very slow for both sides, with MacEwan’s Philip Marsi heading a shot just high of the net a few minutes in followed by back-and-forth action with no team generating sustained pressure or dangerous chances. The first good chance of the game came at the 16-minute mark for The Dogs with Diego Reveco making a quick move in tight and just missing wide left of the net. MacEwan would then grab their first great chance of the game just a few minutes later with Chance Carter ringing one off the crossbar.

Once both teams traded their first chances of the night, the game began to open up with Saskatchewan continually applying the pressure offensively and started to take over the game. Ahmed Mohammed came close to opening the scoring for Saskatchewan, just firing one high of the net followed by two corner kicks that forced goalie David Sithole to make a couple of great grabs. The Huskies didn’t have any of their 5 first half shots reach the net with MacEwan registering the only shot on net in the first.

Early in the second half Saskatchewan picked up where they left off, and had thought they had scored the tie-breaking goal thanks to Ahmed Mohammed, but the play was ruled offside and the game remained deadlocked at one. The Huskies didn’t let that change the momentum, coming close to scoring again with another scoring chance soaring just wide of the net, and Griffins goalie David Sithole making another good grab off a Diego Reveco corner kick.

MacEwan would get a yellow card just after the 70-minute mark of the second half which would result in a free kick from Diego Reveco, that would once again just miss the net wide left. Moments later, Reveco would fire one on net that would just float past a wide open net and Ethan Cabral, but he was just a step behind the ball as it flew out of bounds.

Just past the 78-minute mark, MacEwan would have their best chance of the game with Antony Caceres fighting his way past a couple defenders, and beat goalie Jaron Slopinski with a chip shot, but didn’t beat Luke Mackie as he flew in to kick the ball out of bounds just before it trickled into the open cage. Slopinski would make his third save of the night off a hard drive from Ali Yildiz to keep the game scoreless, but shortly after a foul on the Huskies, Antony Caceres blew a shot past Jaron Slopinski giving MacEwan a late 1-0 lead.

The Huskies would battle until the final seconds of the game, and came close to tying the game in the final five seconds of the game with the Huskies firing a shot directly off the post as the final whistle blew ending the game in a 1-0 victory for the MacEwan Griffins.

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SHOTS: MacEwan 8-9 Saskatchewan

SHOTS ON GOAL: MacEwan 4-0 Saskatchewan

SAVES: MacEwan 0-3 Saskatchewan

CORNERS: MacEwan 4-8 Saskatchewan

FOULS: MacEwan 13-11 Saskatchewan

Diego Reveco (5 Shots)

Ahmed Mohammed (2 Shots)

Matthew Hnatiw (1 Shot)

Kevin Garic (1 Shot)

Jaron Slopinski (4 Shots on Goal, 1 Goal Against, 3 Saves)