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CIS Top Ten Tuesday (#1): National champs top first CIS soccer rankings of 2010
OTTAWA (CIS) – The reigning national champion Trinity
Western Spartans (women) and Laval Rouge et Or (men) top the first
Canadian Interuniversity Sport soccer rankings of 2010.
The Spartans, who joined CIS in 2001, captured their second
straight and third overall Gladys Bean memorial trophy last fall
thanks to a 1-0 victory (4-2 on penalty kicks) over the Montreal
Carabins in the national final, in Toronto. TWU opens at No. 1 for
the second year in a row.
Rounding out the first women’s coaches poll of the new
campaign are the two-time Quebec champion Carabins in second place,
followed by No. 3 UBC, No. 4 Queen’s, No. 5 Toronto, No. 6
York, No. 7 St. Francis Xavier, No. 8 UPEI, No. 9 Victoria and No.
10 Dalhousie.
On the men’s side, Laval starts at No. 1 for the first time
in team history, nine months after claiming its first-ever Sam
Davidson memorial trophy with a come-from-behind 3-2 win over QSSF
rival McGill, in Langley, B.C.
The Rouge et Or men’s soccer program was re-launched in 2000
after folding two decades before.
Rounding out the inaugural Top 10 are the No. 2 Redmen, No. 3
Trinity Western, No. 4 Toronto, No. 5 Victoria, No. 6 Cape Breton,
No. 7 UPEI, No. 8 McMaster, No. 9 UBC and No. 10 York.
The 2010 regular season kicks off on Labour Day weekend with 25
women’s and men’s games in Ontario. Conference play in
Quebec, Canada West and the AUS gets underway the following
weekend.
The Trinity Western women open their CIS title defence with visits
to Lethbridge and Calgary on Sept. 11 and 12, respectively.
Reigning men’s champion Laval hosts UQTR on Sept. 10 and UQAM
on Sept. 12, in Quebec City.
The 2010 campaign will culminate November 11-14 with the
women’s national championship at the University of Prince
Edward Island in Charlottetown and the men’s tournament at
the University of Toronto.
WOMEN’S SOCCER
(regular season record) / (previous rankings)
1. Trinity Western (0-0-0) / (-)
2. Montreal (0-0-0) / (-)
3. UBC (0-0-0) / (-)
4. Queen’s (0-0-0) / (-)
5. Toronto (0-0-0) / (-)
6. York (0-0-0) / (-)
7. StFX (0-0-0) / (-)
8. UPEI (0-0-0) / (-)
9. Victoria (0-0-0) / (-)
10. Dalhousie (0-0-0) / (-)
MEN’S SOCCER
(regular season record) / (previous rankings)
1. Laval (0-0-0) / (-)
2. McGill (0-0-0) / (-)
3. Trinity Western (0-0-0) / (-)
4. Toronto (0-0-0) / (-)
5. Victoria (0-0-0) / (-)
6. Cape Breton (0-0-0) / (-)
7. UPEI (0-0-0) / (-)
8. McMaster (0-0-0) / (-)
9. UBC (0-0-0) / (-)
10. York (0-0-0) / (-)
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