Men's Soccer Lose Battle for Number One

Windsor, ON (Sept 17, 2022) The St. Clair men's soccer team played their second match of the OCAA season in front of a huge crowd at the Sportspark on Saturday night against the top ranked Humber Hawks. The Saints ending up falling to Humber (Etobicoke) by a score of 5-2 in an intense, chippy back and forth match in a battle between two of the top teams in the OCAA and CCAA the felt much closer than the final score.

The Hawks are now 2-0 and are ranked 1^st  in Ontario and 1^st in Canada while the Saints dropped to 1-1. St. Clair is ranked 2^nd in Ontario and 5^th in Canada.

Humber opened the scoring on a nice strike from distance in the 20^th minute. The Hawks then went up 2-0 on an own goal in the 26^th minute as a St. Clair defender tried to deflect a shot away.

The Saints bounced back in the 34^th minute on a great strike by Matteo Grahovac (Windsor; Riverside) assisted by Moussa Nizam (Windsor; Kennedy Collegiate) to make it 2-1.

The Hawks restored their two goal lead in the 59^th minute to make it 3-1. Once again, the Saints responded in the 66^th minute to make it 3-2 on a penalty kick by Grahovac after a St. Clair player was hauled down in the box.  St. Clair had a couple chances to tie the game but Humber scored two goals late to ice the game in the 79^th and 86^th minutes to make it a 5-2 final.

Humber had 13 shot attempts in the match while the Saints had 9.

The Saints are next in action on Wednesday, September 21 when they travel to Sarnia to take on the Lambton Lions. St. Clair will be back home at the SportsPark on Saturday, September 24th against Conestoga at 4 pm.