EDMONTON - The first bronze medal for the Humber Hawks in the Canadian college soccer championship came when the Ontario female champs topped the Concordia Thunder 3-2 in a shootout.

Brittany Szerbaker and Samantha Batten scored for the Hawks, who enjoyed a clear margin in the first half.

Jordan Staples and Victoria Gull replied for Concordia to force a scoreless 30-minute overtime that led to the shootout. After their dull performance in the opening 45 minutes, the Thunder was clearly in charge for most of the second half.

This second loss in succession was especially disappointing for the Thunder, who entered as reigning national champions and went undefeated through all of 2009 and the full 2010 season before competing in these playoffs.

Concordia bowed to FX Garneau on Friday while competing for a berth in the final.

WOMEN’S CCAA TOURNAMENT ALL-STARS & MVP

Scoring leader Lea Chastenay-Joseph of the champion Garneau Elans was honoured yesterday (Saturday) as most valuable player in women’s competition at the Canadian women’s national soccer championship.

She was joined on the tournament all-star team by gold-medal colleagues Kathleen Berube-Garneau, Frederique Paradis and goalkeeper Joelle Morasse.

The NAIT Ooks, who bowed 3-0 in the final, had Leanne Kadatz, Kelly Tataryn and Claire McWilliam chosen, while Shanay Sangha of the Kwantlen Eagles and Kelly Anderson of the Concordia Thunder were selected along with Sonia Rocha and Samantha Batten of the Humber Hawks.

The Holland Hurricanes, representing the Maritimes in the four-day event, won the Canadian College Athletic Association fair play award.

GAME 2: HUMBER 2 - KWANTLEN 1

Keyla Moreno and Sam Batten both scored to lead the Humber Hawks to a 2-1 win over Kwantlen, securing a berth in the CCAA bronze medal game.

Meghan Nilsson scored Kwantlen's lone marker.

Sonia Rocha and Brittaney McNeill were named players of the game for Humber and Kwantlen, respectively.

GAME 1: NAIT 3 - HUMBER 3
(NAIT wins 4-2 in penalty kicks)

In what was arguably the most entertaining match of the day, the NAIT Ooks surpassed the Humber Hawks 4-3 despite twice giving up 2 goal leads. The Ooks led 2-0 and 3-1 before the Hawks were able to claw their way back into the match with two second half goals. NAIT’s Claire McWilliams and Humber’s Angela Solarz each had a pair of goals while the Ooks’ Lisa Martin and the Hawks’ Keyla Moreno added solo tallies to send the contest to extra time.

The Hawks were the more aggressive team in the extra frame but NAIT’s goaltender Tara Evans denied all chances and then went on to stop two penalty kicks leading her team to a 4-2 penalty kick victory.

Tournament Website: www.ccaasoccer2010.ca

Source: NAIT with files from OCAA communications