For the second day-in-a-row, the visiting Grande Prairie Regional College Wolves managed to tie the host Keyano College Huskies in an Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference men’s soccer match held at Shell Place’s SMS Equipment Stadium.
Due to red cards handed out in Saturday night’s game, Huskies were without the services of Haidari Ssekanjjako, goalie Jonathan Bruggeling and leading marksman Neto Miguel (eight shots to date).
Huskies opened scoring Sunday with Shariffe Kamaldin connecting at 15:40.
Huskies went ahead 2-0 at 20:05 with a perfectly pitched lob by Eduardo Filho from 37 yards out.
Filho, a two-time ACAC North All Conference selection, celebrated by running to the sidelines to high five a few young Huskies fans.
Wolves had two late first half attempts, a header at 37:12 and 11-yard rocket at 39:08, both ricocheting off the right goal post.
Wolves scored at 52:02 with Richard Illenseer getting credit.
Saturday Sept. 29, 2018 women 2 p.m. men 4 p.m.
Sunday Sept. 30, 2018 women 12 p.m. men 2 p.m.
Photo: Keyano Huskies Jeannie Hawksworth (No. 9) leads the team in shots with six.
NAIT Ooks scored only 15 seconds into the game with Christian Lima beating Keyano Huskies’ goalie Jonathan Bruggeling. Four second half goals would secure the win for the visiting Ooks against the host Keyano Huskies at Shell Place's SMS Equipment Stadium.
David Doe led the Ooks with two goals with additional singles from Taran Kumar, Matt Zima and Ladji Toure.
Huskies Player of the Game was Ricardo Bernal. Ooks Player of the Game was Zima.
Three- time defending Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) men's soccer champion Keyano Huskies opened the 2018-2019 ACAC regular season at Shell Place's SMS Equipment Stadium with a 2-2 tie against the visiting NAIT Ooks from Edmonton.
Ricardo Bernal and Amel Bajric scored for the Huskies in the first half at 6:47 and 41:41 respectively to take a 2-1 lead into the locker room with Ooks’ Chris Gakona scoring at 14:23.
The lone goal in the second half came off of the foot of Ooks’ Matthew McLean at 58:48.
Huskies had 33 shots on net while Ooks replied with 39.
Huskies Player of the Game was Eduardo Filho while David Doe had the nod for the Ooks.