SPORTS

I can’t for the life of me figure out how or why we play our soccer season during the most miserable months of the year.

Success was never on the plate this year, but delivered to them on the backs of talented fifth year international players.

By the mid-1800s it was regularly played across what is now Quebec and Ontario, enough for its first formal leagues to form and lacrosse become a Canada-wide sensation.

Kameron Johnson had a heck of a game for the Royals, going point for point with the PACWEST MVP, Usama Zaid.

With a year of growth under their belt, they hoped to best the Royals.

Being drawn in the same group as the three time defending champions is bad for any team’s health in a double elimination competition.

The set was a long drawn out battle between two powerhouse teams.

Unsurprisingly, awaiting them in the finals were the host and PACWEST rivals, the VIU Mariners. It was an exciting game.

In 1986, the Whitecaps made their glorious return as the Vancouver 86ers, participating in the new Canadian Soccer League and dominating.

“The very fact of assembling is an exceptionally powerful stimulant” – by Michael Serazio for Communication and Sport