MSOC: National Champs beat X 2-1

The Basics 
Score: Cape Breton CAPERS 2, St.Francis Xavier X-Men 1
Records: CBU 2-0-1, St.Fx 2-1-0
Location: St.Fx, Antigonish, NS

Sydney, NS – Captain Stuart Heath (Belfast, IE)  and Daniel Pritchard each scored second-half goals as the CAPERS defeated the X-Men on Friday night. Dan Hayfield scored a late goal for the X-Men to cut the lead to one goal. Ben Jackson (Bury, UK) made 5 saves for the victory. 

Turning Point: The X-Men received a straight red card in the 80th minute for handling the ball on a clear scoring chance. The X-Men were down to 10 men and the CAPERS scored on the ensuing penalty to take a 2-0 lead. 

 Individual Leaders 
- CBU's Heath & Pritchard and X's Hayfield all had 1 goal
- CAPERS Cory Bent (Preston, UK) had the lone assist in the game.

• Cape Breton's Jackson made 5 saves on 6 shots
• X's Hayfield led all players with 3 shots on goal

News & Notes

- Bent was named the Subway Player of the Game 
- The CAPERS remain undefeated at 2-0-1, X falls to 2-1-0 
- The CAPERS are the defending 2017 AUS Champions & 2017 U Sports National Champions
- Jack Simpson (Redding, UK), Marcus Campanile (Edinburgh, UK) and Bent all received yellow cards for CBU

Up Next 

CBU will travel to UPEI to play the Panthers on Saturday, September 16th for a 315pm start.