Playoff Hopes Timber For Men, Come Together For Women

Oct 21, 2018 | 4:00 PM

It was a Senior Weekend to remember for Kylie Erb and Madison Emmond.

The two are the only fifth-years on the women’s soccer roster at UNBC and were properly celebrated on Sunday, with a playoff-clinching 1-0 win against the UBCO Heat.

The Timberwolves headed into the weekend knowing they needed to win both their games and needing their opponents, TRU and UBCO, to lose to the MacEwen University Griffins in their other games this weekend.

After a 2-0 win on Friday and a UBCO loss in Edmonton, it all came down to Sunday’s matchup.

The Timberwolves and Heat sat at 0-0 after the first half, but the dangerous combination of strikers Paige Payne and Sofia Jones combined for their 12th goal up front, as Jones buried a pass from Payne to make it 1-0.

That offence was all the team needed as Brooke Molby picked up her third win of the season in a seven-save performance.

The win, combined with the fact that MacEwen University and TRU tied on Sunday, meant the Timberwolves clinched the sixth and final playoff spot in the Pacific Division of the CanWest.

For the men, they were not so fortunate. After a 2-2 draw on Saturday night, the team had to watch anxiously as the heavily-favoured UBC Thunderbirds visited the gritty TRU Wolfpack, who were attempting to knock UNBC out of the fourth and final playoff spot on the men’s side.

Unfortunately for UNBC, the 13-win Thunderbirds dropped their first game of the season, 1-0 to the Wolfpack. The win gave TRU their third straight victory, a week of wins that has now escalated them into the fourth seed and knocked out UNBC.

The Men’s team looks back at a successful season, where they posted their best home record (4-1-3) and their longest win streak (4) in the team’s history, but have to call it their, after TRU’s final playoff push proved to be too much.

The Women’s team (6th in Pacific) will now go to Vancouver to play a single play-in game against the University of Manitoba Bisons (3rd in Prairies) on Friday, October 26th at UBC. The winner will face UBC in a single-game quarterfinal Sunday, October 28th.

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