Goal: Belal, 28’

Yellow: Kompson, 36’

Goal: McHale, 49’

 

Goal: Doar, 31’

Goal: Read, 32’

Yellow: Lieberman, 48’

 

In what was the most exciting game of the young season, the Vikings take half the points in a draw away from home against Canisius, in a 2-2 overtime finish. Often in sport, the sport fails to describe the actual balance of play between competing sides; today, though, an even scoreline is an apt depiction of the game’s action. The rivals were evenly matched, going blow-for-blow for a hundred minutes. With Jesse Adamu out for today’s game, the coaching staff rotated through seniors Joey Watroba and Karim Belal up top. The latter found more success, netting the first goal of the game in the twenty-eighth minute on a well-timed run to find a sixty-yard longball from center-back Walter Zacher. The left-footed striker found the back of the net on a scorching volley from twenty-five yards out. That goal seemed to ignite the Canisius offense, which scored two goals within the next four minutes. They might have scored a third, if it hadn’t been for sophomore fullback Alex Kompson’s yellow-card-inducing tackle on an open run on goal for the Canisius winger. Michael McHale evened the score in the forty-ninth, weaving around in the eighteen-yard box to bury a shot in the back of the net. There, at two goals apiece, the score would stay, through two overtime periods of back-and-forth action. Remaining undefeated in league play, the Vikings take on their hated rivals, the Marauders of St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute, next Wednesday.