Weekend Roundup - June 7/8

This past weekend, the League1 Ontario Cataraqui Clippers held their home opener down at the St. Lawrence College field on Saturday with a 5pm kickoff. The Clippers' OYSL team continued their fight in the U17 division. Kingston FC played a pair of games out of town split between Milton and North York. And finally, the Kingston United women play up in Ottawa this evening.

KUSC Women making their mark in Ottawa-Carleton

Last year, Bob Machin moved his top-level Kingston women's team from the Ontario Women's Soccer League (OWSL) to the Ottawa-Carleton Soccer League (OCSL) into the premier division, where they finished in third place behind the Falcons Fury and Gloucester, twelve points off the pace of the two leading teams.

After an off-season requiring replacements of almost half of the team's players, the team is ready to compete for the OCSL Women's Premier title in 2014.

KUSC Women's Premier team to play Kean University

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KUSC Women's Premier team to play Kean University

The KUSC Women's Premier team playing in the Ottawa Carleton Soccer League will be facing New Jersey's Kean University Cougars on Friday, August 9 at 6pm at the John Machin International Fields.

FISU Kazan: Jackie Tessier in Poland, part 2

Jackie Tessier continues her travels overseas preparing for the FISU games in Kazan with a few more days spent in Poland and another game under the belts of the women's soccer team, this time against one of the top women's teams.

Read on for the second entry of Jackie's diary,  a special Canada Day edition, as the Confederations Cup wraps up in South America!

FISU Kazan: Jackie Tessier in Poland

The FISU Universiade games begin in Kazan, Russia at the start of next week. Ex-Queen's varsity striker and current KUSC OCSL Women's player Jackie Tessier is playing with the women's soccer team and has agreed to send in updates every few days, discussing her travels and experiences representing Canada on the international stage.

The Queen's Journal profiled her in this week's issue as a lead-up to her trip overseas.

Read on for her first blog entry.

KUSC Women's Premier to play in the OCSL

It would not be unfair to say that Bob Machin has been around the game of soccer his entire life. His father was one of the founders of the Kingston United Soccer Club (a men's club) in the late 1940s and his brother John was instrumental in the founding of the Pittsburgh Township Soccer Club. As such, it is extremely fitting that Bob finds himself belonging to the Kingston United Soccer Club (KUSC), a club formed in 2004 with the merger of the Kingston Youth Soccer Club and the Pittsburgh Township Soccer Club.

In 2009, Bob Machin, along with Aldo Popazzi and Dimitri Senis, formed the Kingston FC women's team as part of the Kingston Women's Soccer Club (KWSC) to be entered in the Ontario Women's Soccer League (OWSL). That year, they won the East Regional division.

Jackie Tessier trying out for FISU's Team Canada (Updated)

The 2013 FISU Summer Universiade takes place this July 6th through 17th in the city of Kazan, in the Republic of Tararstan, part of the Russian Federation. One of Kingston's top female soccer players is hoping to be part of the women's team that Canada is sending and headed off today for the final round of tryouts.

Jackie Tessier, fresh off her fourth season with the Queen's Golden Gaels, and a third national medal in a row, left today for Burnaby, BC for a chance to make the final roster of twenty players that will be heading to the games this summer. She is following in the footsteps of Brienna Shaw and Riley Filion who played with the women's team in Harbin, China in 2011.

Weekend Roundup - Sept 8/9

The second weekend of September saw the OUA seasons continue, the OCAA season kick off, and a return home for local CSL team Kingston FC. The majority of the games took place out of town, in the Greater Toronto Area in fact, while Kingston FC had the weekend at home all to themselves.

In the OUA, RMC was playing the University of Toronto on Saturday and Ryerson Sunday, while Queen's played the same teams, but in the opposite order. St. Lawrence kicked off their outdoor season with a visit to the Centennial Colts in Scarborough on Sunday afternoon, and Kingston FC faced off against the Serbian White Eagles from Toronto on Saturday evening.

Weekend Roundup - Sept 1/2

With the opening weekend of the university seasons now underway, it was fitting that the Queen's University Gaels would face off against their cross-town rivals RMC Paladins to start things off.

Over the last few years, the RMC teams have been weaker than Queen's, primarily due to recruiting and admission requirements at RMC, but this weekend's games really showed that gap. The games were both played Sunday afternoon out at the new turf field at West Campus, which is now the home of Queen's soccer. The teams will play their entire home schedules there, but still practice twice a week on the Richardson grass fields.

St. Lawrence College 2012 OCAA schedule

The St. Lawrence College Vikings released their 2012 soccer schedules recently for both the men's and women's teams. Both teams are looking to improve on last year's results, with the men finishing in 7th with an 0-4-3 record, and the women in 5th with a 2-4-1 record, and just outside of the playoff picture.

Both teams kick off Saturday, September 8th at Centennial College in Scarborough before returning home for a 3-game homestand beginning Friday, September 14th. Each schedule is eight games long with four home and four away games, playing each team in their 9-team divisions a single time.

CIS: Old Four Tournament results

The Queen's University teams had a bit of a rough go of things up in Toronto this past weekend at the annual Old Four tournament.

On Saturday, Queen's was facing the Western Mustangs women's and men's teams, and were shut out in both matches. The women dropped their game 1-0 on a goal in the 78th minute. In the other matchup, the men were beaten by a surprising 5-0 result. As a result of the matches, both Queen's teams were relegated to the consolation finals on the Sunday.

KWSC Playoff Finals

The Kingston Women's Soccer Club season came to an end last night with their three playoff finals being played out at the Woodbine Sporting Complex in the west end of Kingston.

In Tier 2, 2nd place Wentworth faced 1st place Cataraqui Clippers on Woodbine 4. Tier 3 featured 1st place PT United against 2nd place White Lightning on Woodbine 2, and Tier 4 featured 2nd place Turf Queens against 7th place Wilman's Painting on Woodbine 5.

Queen's 2012 CIS schedule

The Queen's University OUA schedule was released a few weeks ago, and features an opening weekend matchup at home with local rivals RMC on September 2nd.

In preparation for the season, the women's visited Quebec City to play against Laval Rouge et Or. Brenna Drummond, a new recruit from Seattle, Washington scored the only goal for the Gaels in the 55th minute, and Laval tied the game late in stoppage time for the 1-1 draw.^[1]

The men took a tour of New York State visiting the Le Moyne Dolphins in Syracuse, Hobart Statesmen in Geneva, and Cornell Big Red in Ithaca. Eric Koskins scored in the first game last Sunday to equalize, giving Queen's a tightly contested 1-1 draw.^[2] The next day, Queen's played Hobart, falling 1-0 on a defensive mistake.^[3] The men finished their tour on Thursday night against Cornell, falling 6-0 in the end.^[4]

RMC 2012 CIS Schedule

The RMC OUA schedule was released a few weeks ago, and features an opening weekend matchup at local rivals Queen's University on September 2nd.

This Sunday afternoon, the RMC women face Algonquin College at RMC, and then will play the St Lawrence College women this coming Wednesday at 5pm, also at RMC.

High School - OFSAA Day 2 and Playoffs

Day two at the OFSAA AAA soccer tournament in Hamilton continued a disappointing showing for both the Regiopolis-Notre Dame girls and a good comeback attempt that fell just short by the Sydenham boys.

All of the games were delayed by about 90 minutes due to the thunderstorms the previous day, and thus the first round of the playoffs was also delayed, this time to Saturday morning.

After the final games from Thursday were completed, including Regiopolis-Notre Dame's 1-0 loss to Northern, the Sydenham boys were first up at 11am against Crestwood.

High School - OFSAA Day 1

With day one in the books at the boys and girls soccer OFSAA tournament in Hamilton, both Kingston teams find themselves with fairly big hills to climb.

Sydenham Secondary School, at their first ever provincial tournament, found themselves matched up against the defending boys champions, Corpus Christi from Burlington in the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference (GHAC). Unfortunately, Sydenham lost by a 3-0 scoreline in the tournament opener at 9am.

The Regiopolis-Notre Dame girls kicked off at 10:30am, also against Corpus Christi, but did not fare much better, dropping the game with a 4-2 scoreline with Jessica Almeida scoring her first two goals of the season, the second early in the second half to tie things up at 2-2. Unfortunately, Corpus Christi scored twice in the last seven minutes of the game to take the victory.

High School - OFSAA 2012 AAA Soccer schedule

The 2012 OFSAA Girls and Boys AAA soccer tournament begins this Thursday in Hamilton at the Mohawk Sports Complex in Hamilton, Ontario.

From the Kingston area, Sydenham Secondary School represents the senior boys, while Regiopolis-Notre Dame represents the senior girls. Both teams find themselves in a 20-team tournament to challenge for the Ontario title.

Regiopolis-Notre Dame is in Pool C against Ancaster H&VS from SOSSA, Corpus Christi CSS from GHAC, SWOSSA's #2 team, Northern CI&VS and Senator O'Connor College from TDCAA.

Sydenham finds themselves in a tough pool with last year's champions, Corpus Christi (GHAC), Mary Ward CSS (TDCAA), Father Bressani HS (YRAA #2), and Crestwood SS (COSSA).

High School - EOSSAA Championship results

The EOSSAA boys and girls soccer championships took place this week, the girls on Tuesday, May 29 in Pembrooke, and the boys on Wednesday, May 30 in Kingston, at Tindall Field.

Four Kingston area teams competed, junior and senior, boys and girls based on the KASSAA playoffs that finished last week. Holy Cross represented the junior girls, Regiopolis-Notre Dame the senior girls and junior boys, and Sydenham the senior boys. Both days were sunny and warm days for the Kingston junior teams to compete for the 'AAA' EOSSAA titles, while the senior teams competed for the titles and berths at OFSAA.

High School - KASSAA Playoff results

The Kingston Area Secondary Schools Athletic Association seasons came to a close yesterday afternoon with the finals in Boys and Girls soccer, at both Junior and Senior levels.

By the end of Thursday's finals, four teams had booked their spots in the EOSSAA tournaments to be held next week. The Boys AAA tournament is being hosted by KCVI here in Kingston on May 30th, while the Girls AAA tournament is in Pembroke this year on May 29th.

High School - Playoff quarter-final rounds

The Kingston area High School soccer season came to an end last week and the playoffs began in earnest this past Monday evening.

The top eight teams in each division (Junior and Senior for both Boys and Girls) make it to the quarter final round of the playoffs. The top placed teams move onto the EOSSAA tournament with a chance at playing in OFSAA in the second week of June.