Capers double Huskies in men's soccer action

(HALIFAX, N.S.)—The visiting CBU Capers doubled up the SMU Huskies 4-2 on Friday evening from Huskies Stadium in Atlantic University Sport men's soccer action.

Cape Breton—ranked no. 1 by U SPORTS—showed why they are the defending 2018 silver medalists, scoring in the 4^th minute from Charlie Waters.

Saint Mary's leveled the score on a penalty-kick in the 15^th minute from Cian Tousignant-Osiadhail (Timberlea, NS).

Waters (Blackpool, UK) would add his second in the 34^th minute on a penalty-kick and CBU led 2-1 at half.

SMU scored in the 58^th minute off a rebound shot from Tyler Dorey (Cole Harbour, NS) as Calum Thompson (Dartmouth, NS) added an assist.

Saint Mary's almost took the lead in the 68^th minute when James Spence's (Hammonds Plains, NS) left-footed curled shot found the fingertips of CBU keeper Ben Jackson (Bury, UK).

CBU took the lead with late goals from Cory Bent (Preston, UK) in the 73^rd minute and Waters scoring his third of the match in the 79^th minute, giving CBU a 4-2 victory.

Cape Breton outshot SMU 14-6, with each goalie forced to make four saves apiece.

Saint Mary's had one more corner kick than CBU, 6-5 and two more fouls, 13-11.

Jackson picked up the win for CBU, who improve to 4-0-1 in conference action while Jensen Brown (Enfield, NS) had the loss for SMU, who fall to 4-1-0 in AUS play.

Up next for both teams are 3:15 p.m. Sunday afternoon games, as CBU travels to 1-2-1 Acadia while SMU hosts 1-1-2 Dalhousie.

Dominic Nolasco for SMU

Photo Mona Ghiz