Women's soccer split weekend

The day after what Head Coach Andy Cameron termed “a great result”, the Varsity Reds women’s soccer team could not keep the momentum going.

The Reds beat the Memorial Sea-Hawks 3-0 to open the weekend. Heather Amberry scored twice and Leandra Upton rounded out the result.

Rookie keeper Erika Erman was on her game Saturday, but Sunday was a different story for the Reds.

The dream of a weekend sweep was dashed by the Cape Breton University Capers as they beat UNB 5-1.

The Reds started the game perfectly as Elise Arseneau took advantage of miscommunication by Capers keeper Emily Gillet and defender Katherine Mills to give UNB a lead in only the second minute.

It was all Capers from then on. Heather Marsh scored in the eleventh minute for the Capers and Nicholle Morrison gave the visitor’s the lead just before halftime as she intercepted a clearance from Reds keeper Ermen.

Any chance for the Reds to make it a game in the second half was shattered early when Kaelyn Burke scored five minutes into the half. Alyssa Kavanaugh scored with a powerful header from a corner in the fifty-first minute and Burke added her second to make the final 5-1.

“We just got down early,” said Cameron on the team’s loss to CBU, “and lost the physical battles and in this league the team that gets confidence in the early stages of the game start tends to win and for whatever reason we went from bad to worse.”

Scoring two minutes into a match should be a huge positive for the team, but it wasn’t the case for the Reds against CBU.

“Normally it really gives you a positive start,” said Cameron, “I thought the start was good but we got down early and lost confidence and just started whacking the ball up the field instead of playing and it went from bad to worse.”

Coach Cameron is still optimistic about his team’s chances.

“We’re only at about mid-season,” said Cameron, “I think we have six games after Thanksgiving so there’s still lots of points, but we can’t afford performances like today.”

The Varsity Reds currently sit in seventh, one point behind the Acadia Axewomen for the sixth and final playoff spot. The team resumes its schedule after the Thanksgiving break with road games against Cape Breton on Oct.16, and Mount Allison Oct. 17.