To wrap up the season, the Bisons soccer team won their last game against the Regina Cougars on Saturday, Oct. 24. The herd secured their victory with a dominant 3-0 win. The Bisons recorded 14 shots in the first half and 12 shots in the second half, while the Cougars had one shot in the first half, and none in the second half.
Around the two-minute mark, the first shot of the game was taken by Bisons athlete Isabella Lone, which was blocked. Within another minute, the herd had their second shot on goal by Taylor Sousa, blocked by Cougars’ goalie Cassidy Fedoruk.
This play was followed by a foul on the Cougars. For the next 20 minutes of the game, the Bisons were unable to convert their shots into goals.
At 27:40, a corner kick was awarded to the Bisons. The corner, taken by Lone, led to a goal for the herd by Lulu Bordeaux assisted by Elana Kressock. This was Bordeaux’s first goal of the season.
To end the first half of the match, the Bisons took three more shots and committed one more foul.
The second half kicked off with Bisons athlete Bianca Cavalcanti shooting precisely at goal, but it was ultimately saved by Fedoruk.
After two corner kicks by the Cougars, a foul on them and a shot on target by Bisons’ Sarina Mann that was blocked, the Bisons secured another goal at 52:29 by Taleesa Minnaar, her first goal of the season. Two minutes later, Minnaar assisted Cavalcanti for her ninth goal of the season for the Bisons, making the score 3-0. In the following minutes, Cavalcanti hit the crossbar.
The game finished in favour of the Bisons with a 3-0 victory.
When asked about the game, Bisons soccer interim head coach Fabio Capone commented, “Nothing could’ve been better. Everything from start to finish, from our game plan, how we wanted to approach a game, the areas of the spaces we wanted to exploit, the areas we wanted to take away. It was amazing.”
Throughout the game, the Bisons prioritized keeping possession of the ball with sharp and precise passing, taking advantage of the chances created, which turned out to be an effective strategy against the opposing team.
“We felt as though what we needed to do was basically get as many players in their offensive third as possible […] You might have seen the final act, but it really started at the base, getting the girls in the back three or four, just moving the ball around to establish what was asked of us at the front,” explained Capone. “That’s how we got all the goals.”
