On Saturday, for the first time in more than two decades, Capilano University Blues players got to wear a medal around their necks at the CCAA Women's Soccer Championships.
The Blues were all smiles after winning a bronze medal in the finals at Squamish's CapU campus on Nov. 9, with a 1-0 win over PACWEST's Vancouver Island University.
Like on Friday, against the Seneca College Sting, an early goal by Mya Fraser proved to be the game-winner.
"It was the final game of a sterling five-year Blues career for Fraser," reads a news release from CapU.
Goalie Amaya Salvino had her third "clean sheet win" in a row.
According to the release, this bronze is the first medal for Blues women’s soccer since 2001, when the team won gold in Medicine Hat.
Capilano ends the nationals with a 3-1 record, more wins than they had in a regular season which consisted of two wins, six draws and four losses.
"All the Blues goals in the tournament were scored by defenders, each a header off a set piece delivered by Michaela Salvino. Erika Di Lorenzo scored in Thursday's win over[ Mount Saint Vincent Athletics Mystics], and Fraser scored in each of the last two games," the release states.
The players of the game were Isabella Bolognese for Capilano and Mya Creed, for VIU.
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Also on Saturday, in the all-Quebec final match-up, Nomades de Montmorency clinched the gold medal with a score of 3-0 over Aigles d'Ahuntsic, which will take home the silver.
See the scores of the whole championship on the 2024 CCAA Women's Soccer Championship website.
