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.