The hometown Feildians Greensleeves will play in the bronze-medal game of the Toyota Jubilee Trophy national women’s soccer championship Sunday morning at King George V Park in St. John’s.
Feildians will face the British Columbia representatives from Coquitlam in a 9 a.m. game at King George V Park in St. John’s.
The eight teams in the tourney were divided into four-team pools. The first-place finishers in each pool square off for gold, leaving the second-place teams — Feildians and Coquitlam — to play in the bronze-medal contest.
Edmonton Northwest United takes on Beauport, Que, in the gold-medal final at noon today at KGV.
On Saturday afternoon, Feildians (1-1-1) lost their final game of the preliminary round, getting blanked 2-0 by Edmonton at Rainbow Gully Field in Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s.
But the four points earned by the St. John’s team left them one point ahead of the third-place and defending champions from Scarborough, Ont.
Scarborough was undefeated in the tourney, but all their results were ties, including a 1-1 score in their game against Feildians in the tourney opener Wednesday. And on Sunday, the Ontario side was played to a 2-2 draw by Newfoundland’s other entry at the Canadian championship, Holy Cross Avalon Ford.
Therefore, Feildians will have the opportunity to do what Holy Cross did two years ago in Surrey, B.C., and win a national bronze.
It’s the only medal won by a Newfoundland women’s team at the Canadian championships.
Provincial Jubilee Trophy champion Holy Cross (0-2-1) will play Northwest Winnipeg at 10 a.m. in the seventh-eighth placement game at Rainbow Gully Field. Scarborough and Dartmouth United are paired off in the fifth-sixth placement contest 10 a.m. at Middle Smallwood Field in Mount Pearl.
The national women’s event is being held in conjunction with the Challenge Trophy men’s championship.
Preliminary-round play in the latter winds up today, including a game between Holy Cross Kirby Group, Newfoundland’s lone entry in the men’s tourney, and the Fredericton, N.B., Picarroons Reds at the Topsail Complex in C.B.S. at 9:30 a.m.
The Holy Cross men (0-2-1) were eliminated from medal contention on Friday.
While there are still preliminary-round games to be played, it’s already know that the Central City Breakers of Surrey, B.C., and Ottawa St. Anthony will play for gold in the men’s final Monday at KGV. Neither team can be overtaken for first place in its pool, no matter today’s results.
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