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Royals earn split with Cap

It was a tale of two games – well, actually, four halves – but when the smoke cleared it could be said that the Douglas College Royals were lucky to earn a split. If anything, the Capilano University Blues may have just been a tad unlucky.
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The Douglas College men's soccer team were a little bit lucky in scoring twice during injury time to eke out a 3-2 win over Capilano University last week. The next game Cap got revenge with a 1-0 decision.

It was a tale of two games – well, actually, four halves – but when the smoke cleared it could be said that the Douglas College Royals were lucky to earn a split.

If anything, the Capilano University Blues may have just been a tad unlucky.

A heroic rally in injury time saw the Royals erase a 2-1 deficit and exit the pitch Saturday with a 3-2 victory, thanks to two quick strikes from Burhan Waisy. A day later, Capilano exacted its revenge with a dominating 6-2 trumping of the visitors.

Douglas struck first Saturday on Tyler Richardson’s goal 22 minutes into the game but spent nearly all of the second half on their heels, as Capilano tied it two minutes into the frame then took the lead at the 60-minute mark.

It appeared that was how it would end, until Waisy’s heroics in injury time. He won it just a minute after tying it with a strike in the dying seconds.

From that surge, the defending league champions should have garnered some momentum for the next day’s rematch. Somebody forgot to tell Capilano that, however.

The Blues’ Keith Jackson scored four times as Cap built up a 5-0 first half lead en route to an easy decision.

David Sun and Richardson supplied the goals for Douglas.

The Royals still sit first overall in the PacWest men’s soccer league at 3-1-2 but just a point ahead of the Blues.

They visit Langara on Saturday and return home to play third-place Vancouver Island on Sunday, 3:30 p.m. at Town Centre Park.

 

SPLIT LEAVES ROYALS BLUE

A home-and-home series against the last place Capilano Blues left the defending provincial champion Douglas College Royals holding a narrow two-point lead in the PacWest women’s soccer league standings.

Capilano eked out the game’s only goal in the 83rd minute when Claire Ye beat the Royals’ Alexa Gazzola. While they had their fair share of possession, Douglas managed just three shots on Darian Roussy, who picked up the shutout.

It was same story but a different winner the next day, with Mikayla Hamilton netting her league-leading fourth goal in a 1-0 Royals victory.

Douglas visits second-place Langara on Saturday, and hosts Vancouver Island on Sunday, 1 p.m. at Town Centre Park.