Providence Pilots flying into collegiate season
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The Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference (MCAC) soccer season is in full swing, with the Providence Pilots looking to avenge a pair of championship losses from last season.
Providence College’s women’s team is off to a solid start, splitting a pair of tight games with last year’s champion Brandon University, but blowing out every other team they’ve faced.
In four games against the other three teams in the conference, the Pilots have a perfect record, while out-scoring their opposition 22-1. It’s a two-team race in the women’s soccer standings, with Brandon and Providence perfect against every other team in the division.
It was an impressive weekend for the Pilots, as they went away to Brandon, defeating the Bobcats 1-0, before returning to Otterburne the next day to demolish Canadian Mennonite University 5-0.
The Bobcats and Pilots will face again Oct. 6, including a match-up between the men’s teams, who are both looking up at St Boniface in an incredibly tight standings this season.
The Pilots earned a split of their back-to-back games, with Brandon avenging an early-season loss to Providence Sept. 21, before CMU couldn’t keep pace the next day in a 6-1 scoreline.
It’s a three-team race for the top of the MCAC men’s soccer standings, with currently undefeated St Boniface holding a slight edge over Brandon and Providence. While the Pilots have the same amount of wins as St Boniface, Les Rouges have earned three draws as well, with Providence picking up two losses so far this season.
Brandon has three draws as well, but only two wins.
Joel Umeh has been on a tear for Providence this season, notching the MCAC male athlete of the week award earlier this season.
Umeh has picked up right where he left off last season, scoring an incredible eight goals in six games so far this season, twice as many as anyone else in the conference.
Those numbers were helped by a hat trick during Providence’s 6-1 victory over CMU Sept. 22.
The MCAC championships are in Winnipeg this year beginning Oct. 24.