Live: Men's Gold Medal Game

The banner will go to Quebec, but which school? McGill or Laval? Find out at 7:30pm.

Live: Men's Bronze Medal Game

Follow at least the first half of the men's bronze medal match between the Trinity Western Spartans and the U of T Varsity Blues, live at 5pm.

Once the women's gold medal game starts, our coverage will switch to them. But this is all dependent on scheduling, so your best bet is just to follow along after the jump.

Live: Women's Gold Medal Game

The Trinity Western Spartans look to repeat as CIS champions at 6:00pm, but they'll have to break through the Montreal Carabins 11-man backline to do it. Follow their progress after the jump.

Live: Women's Bronze Medal Game: Queen's Gaels v. UBC Thunderbirds

Join us at 3:00pm for the Queen's Golden Gaels and the UBC Thunderbirds in the CIS Women's Bronze Medal Game.

Blog is after the jump.

Live: Women's Semi-Final #2:UBC Thunderbirds v. Montreal Carabins

Stop by at around 4:15pm for the second women's semi-final.

Blog is coming soon.

Live: Women's Semi-Final #1: Queen's Gaels v. Trinity Western Spartans

Join Dylan Matthias live right now for CIS semi-final live blogging.

The blog is after the jump.

CIS Men's Semi-Final #2--Trinity Western Spartans v. McGill Redmen

Follow us live as the tournament hosts look to reach the finals at 10:30pm.

Blog will be posted soon.

Live: Men's Semi-Final #1--Laval Rouge et Or v. U of T Varsity Blues

Follow the first semi-final live from 8:00pm.

Blog is after the jump.

Live: CIS Women's Quarterfinals--Université of Montreal Carabins v. University of Toronto Varsity Blues

Want some good Montreal v. Toronto action? Stop in here at around 7:30pm. Previous games have gone a bit overtime, so this might delay a bit. We'll launch anyway at 7:30 and update in the blog from there.

We'll also have the men's quarterfinal match-up of CBU and Trinity Western at 10:30pm. If the U of T game goes late, we will be switching over to the AUS representative Cape Breton Capers.

Blog is after the jump.

Live: CIS Women's Quarterfinals--York Lions v. UBC Thunderbirds

Waiting for the second game to start? Want to see the "Thunderbirds" in action? Tune in here around 4:15 for live coverage with Dylan Matthias. The game may start slightly later as an earlier game went to extra-time. We'll launch around 4:25 and update as necessary.

Blog is after the jump.

Live: CIS Women's Quarterfinal--Trinity Western Spartans v. UPEI Panthers (Thursday, 2:30PM)

The men's game is not being streamed live anymore, so we're switching to the women instead. Trintiy Western and UPEI.

The blog is after the jump.

Dal Soccer Live to Live-Blog CIS Nationals

Dal Soccer Live will be live-blogging both CIS national tournaments this weekend, starting Thursday.

Although we can't bring you every game for scheduling reasons, we will be able ot bring you both mens quarterfinals featuring AUS teams, and the women's quartters between York and UBC as well as the Carabins and U of T.

We'll also have both semi-finals and the bronze and gold medal games for both genders over the weekend.

Check back here for more previews, schedules, and the live-blogs.

Although we had technical difficulties with the AUS tournament, these were caused by Dalhousie-specific problems and should not affect our CIS coverage.

Cape Breton Defeat UPEI, Claim AUS Title

The Cape Breton Capers are back on top.

The tournament favourites pulled through on Monday, scoring early in extra-time to beat the surprising UPEI Panthers 2-1.

"These guys want to put a banner up in the school," said Capers head coach Robbie Chiasson. "The more success you have, the more people become aware of your program and better players want to come to your school."

Cape Breton defeat UdeM, head to AUS finals and CIS nationals

The Cape Breton Capers survived a late comeback to advance out of the semi-finals yesterday, beating UdeM 4-3.

"Soccer Is A Cruel Game" Dalhousie Out of AUS Men's Playoffs

The Dalhousie Tigers are not going to nationals. They lost today in front of about 500 fans at Wickwire Field in a game that was at times thrilling and at times frustrating.

UPEI will instead advance to the finals against Cape Breton and book their tickets to Langley. They outscored the Tigers 4-3.

The game was at times controversial, and provided talking points from start to finish.

Live matches will not happen for DalSoccerLive

In an unfortunate turn, DalSoccerLive is being forced to cancel our live-blogging of the AUS Men's Playoffs.

Giants out at AUS Women's Playoffs

Both the Dalhousie Tigers and the Cape Breton Capers will not be returning to CIS nationals this year.

Both teams lost their semi-final matches yesterday.

UdeM, UPEI win quarter-finals, X and UNB bow out

Negative soccer never really pays. Sure the Greeks have one a Euro title because of it. And we'll grant that it is a strategy of sorts, and it can be effective. But really, all it gives is a more dramatic and exciting win to the other team when they finally break through.

Live: St. FX v. UPEI--AUS Men's Quarterfinal

Here's today's second game. Hopefully our technical problems will be resolved for this. Dylan will be her after the first game, or from about 2:45pm.

Blog is after the jump.

Live: Université de Moncton v. University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds--AUS Men's Quarter-final (Nov. 7, 12pm)

After an extra day off due to storm conditions Friday, see if UdeM can defeat New Brunswick rivals UNB. Follow us live on DalSoccerLive from 11:30am with Dylan Matthias.


Looking for the second game (St. FX v. UPEI)? It'll be posted around 2:00pm.

Blog is after the jump.

Update: Final will be played Monday: AUS

According to the AUS website, the AUS Men's Playoff final will be played on Monday, Nov. 9th.

There are still contradicting reports: the Dal Athletics site still says the time is undecided, so this may not be cleared up yet.

Hopefully this tidbit holds up, since it makes it far easier to showcase the tournament. More people will come, more people will watch online, and that means more interest in Dal Soccer.

More thoughts on this tomorrow morning.

Cape Breton and St. FX Advance at AUS Women's Playoffs, Host MUN and UdeM Out

It wasn't a great day for the AUS Women's Playoffs hosts, the Memorial Sea-Hawks. They lost 2-0 to a Cape Breton side that knows how to win in these situations. St. FX beat UdeM 1-0 and will face Dalhousie tomorrow, recreating one of the closest matches the Tigers have had this season, when they won 2-1 over St. FX thanks to two goals from Katie Richard.

Top seed UPEI will meet Cape Breton in what could be something of an epic duel, featuring two teams with a lot of high-calibre players.

Cancelled! Friday games postponed as snow sets in over Halifax

A nasty, slushy snowstorm last night has forced AUS men's organizers to reschedule Friday afternoon's games.

"There's a few things in life you can't control: one's the weather," said Tigers coach Pat Nearing, who is helping to organize this tournament.

After a considerable delay while maintenance staff used snow shovels and a snowplow to clear Wickwire, the games were canceled.

Maintenance head Chris Keogh conferred with the head official for the tournament, who suggested that a frozen pitch could be a problem if kick-off was pushed back.

"[The games] were originally scheduled for 12 and 3 in order to use the warmest part of the day. If they push the game to night time, you start to get a little freeze-up. It's very dangerous for the players to be playing a competitive game in those conditions."

Instead, the two quarter-finals will kick-off on Saturday, at the same times, 12pm and 3pm. the semi-finals will be played Sunday at 12pm and 3pm.

Live: Update: Friday's games cancelled--watch for details

Friday's games have been delayed by a snow storm which hit Halifax overnight. Today's event is embedded after the jump, and is currently serving as a forum for information and discussion.

AUS Women's Preview

Sadly, DalSoccerLive can only be in one place at once. The presence of the men's tournament at Dal (and the lack of a cloning machine) means we can't live-blog what promises to be an entertaining women's tournament.

The good news is that two AUS teams will be heading to CIS nationals, so if Dalhousie can get out of the semi-final, we'll catch up with them next weekend.

Our predictions are coming up after the jump....

AUS Men's Playoff Preview

We've been awaiting this for awhile. So have the players, it's safe to say. The following are a few late night musings from Dylan on who might have a slightly better chance this weekend.

So, who's going to win it? After the jump.... (We like this new tool, you know.)

Dal Soccer Live Gets Swine Flu

Wondering where we've been for the past two weeks?

Our reporter at Dal Soccer Live contracted a nasty flu bug (very probably swine flu). Unfortunately, we had to forgo the last two weeks of the season or risk missing the playoffs and infecting the entire Dal Tigers team with flu.

The good news is that the AUS playoffs will be blogged extensively here and at www.dalgazette.com. Dylan will be in Halifax at the men's playoffs, and we'll do what we can to get updates from St. John's and the women's playoffs.

A schedule of MBM reports will be coming in the next 24 hours as Dylan and the Dalhousie Gazette work out how best to present this tournament (and how best to deal with the atrocious weather expected for Friday). Check back tomorrow evening for a playoff preview on both tournaments.

The nice, healthy, swine flu-free fun continues on Nov. 12th as the CIS nationals kick off in Toronto and Langley. We'll live-blog those ones here, too.

Apologies for any inconvenience while we've been away. Naturally, Tigers goalkeeper Ben Ur chose the one home weekend we missed to score his first goal of the season. Hopefully he can put another one in on Saturday.

See you there.