WHITECAPS RESIDENCY TOPS SPARTANS

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Scheduled Game: Vancouver Whitecaps Residency

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Men's Soccer (Friendly)
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
TWU Spartans (0) vs. the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency (1)

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WHITECAPS RESIDENCY TOPS SPARTANS

LANGLEY, British Columbia - The Vancouver Whitecaps Residency team came away with an entertaining 1-0 win over the Trinity Western University Spartans Tuesday night at TWU's Langley, B.C. campus.

The Whitecaps and Spartans played a back and forth match with each team having quality chances. Vancouver ended with the edge in shots on goal at 6-3, with TWU keeper Andrew Fink (Burnaby, B.C.) making two point blank stops to keep the margin at one goal.

The Whitecaps forward Dever Orgill scored the lone goal of the match in the 19th minute. The play started on a free kick from the Whitecaps end, which Marcus Johnstone went high to flick on to the a charging Orgill. Orgill broke past the Spartan defenders to go in alone on Fink. Fink came charging out to cut done the angle, but Orgill was able to get the ball past the Canada West first team All-Star to give the Whitecaps the 1-0 lead.

In the 62nd minute, after sustained pressure, Whitecaps midfielder Alex Semenets looked to make it a two goal margin but his shot from just inside the box rang off of the left post.

The Spartans nearly tied the match in the 73rd minute when Jake Jorgenson (Bellingham, Wash.) had a free kick from just in front of the Spartans bench. The first year defender sent a perfect cross into the centre of the Vancouver penalty area where Canada West goal scoring leader Nathan Pogue (Seaside, Ore.) was waiting. Pogue went high over the Whitecaps defenders and headed the ball just wide of the left post.

This was the final match of the fall for the Canada West champion Spartans. The will resume spring play in late January and early February. At the end of March the Spartans are scheduled to play the Vancouver Whitecaps FC in their annual friendly match.

This fall Trinity Western made its third straight trip to the CIS National Championships where they earned fifth place after defeating Saint Mary's University 1-0. The Spartans finished the championship as the only team to not have had a goal scored on them in regulation. TWU moved to the consolation side of the draw after a heartbreaking shoot-out loss to Western. Last season the Spartans earned a CIS Silver medal and a CIS Bronze in 2005.

TWU ran away with the Canada West conference this season, posting a record breaking 11-2-1 campaign to win the conference by 13 points. Their 11 wins and 34 points stand as the most ever by a Canada West Men's Soccer team and led them to their fifth straight playoff appearance and third straight Canada West Championship.

The Spartans scored more goals (33) than any other Canada West team and allowed fewer (13) than their competition as well. In the final Top-Ten of the year TWU was ranked No. 3 in the country, the Spartans at one point held the nation's top spot, and never dropped below fourth in the nation.

Trinity Western University, located in Langley, B.C., is a not-for-profit Christian liberal arts university enrolling over 4,000 students this year. With a broad based, liberal arts and sciences curriculum, the University offers undergraduate degrees in 38 major areas of study ranging from business, education and computer science to biology and nursing, and 13 other graduate degrees including counselling psychology, theology and administrative leadership. For more information, visit TWU's Official Athletics site at www.gospartans.ca.

Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency is a full-time program dedicated to developing North America's top youth players in Vancouver. Whitecaps FC Residency allows elite youth players from U-17 to U-19 to achieve professional opportunities with the Whitecaps men's team and world-class European clubs using the European club model of identification, development and placement.

Thomas Niendorf, Managing Director and Head Coach of Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency, is well documented for his achievement of placing England international Owen Hargreaves with FC Bayern Munich and Canada's national team members Kevin McKenna with FC Energie Cottbus and Tamandani Nsaliwa with FC Nürnberg; all teams play in Germany's Bundesliga.

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