08/19/2017
Campeones! A week after retaining the Men's 11s cup, the Friday Bees made it a double by taking home the league title with a hard fought 3-1 victory over the only team to defeat us all season, Purple Rain.
After running out 9-1 winners in the cup final, it was perhaps no surprise to see such a nonchalant start to the game. We did manage to open the scoring when Andrew latched onto a nice ball over the top from Sylvain and made no mistake, slotting into the bottom right corner with his left foot.
Our opponents didn't give up and equalized soon after. We had a game on our hands. A mixed first half ended on a positive note when Tyler regained possession in the attacking third, ran at the defence with intent and smashed into the corner. 2-1 at the half.
The Bees came into the second half more focused and utilized the width of the big Carleton pitch to our advantage, finding Stell in acres of space on countless occasions. The dagger came when man of the match Andrew subbed back on and with his first touch found the back of the net after being played in by Tyler. 3-1 is how it ended.
Massive thanks to Nick Labelle for playing in goal and helping us to victory. Your selflessness is unparalleled and appreciated.
Shout out to our strike force of Andrew and Tyler who, in the absence of our famous ARC triad (Ali, Rab and Chima) stepped up and led us to victory up front.
Shout out to our solid defence for holding things down all season. Chico, Terry, Anders, Dave, Nick, Auga.
This makes three men's 11s league titles in five years, two league and cup doubles in a row and is the 32nd trophy in Bees history. 13 games, 45 goals for, 9 against and 8 clean sheets split equally between Fede and Nick. Great season lads!