Trinity Western third-year midfielder Jacob Low (Port Moody, B.C.) scored a 65th-minute marker to help the Spartans men鈥檚 soccer team to a 1-1 draw with UBC Okanagan in TWU鈥檚 season-opener Monday.
The game had been postponed from Saturday due to smoke from the forest fires in B.C.
Trailing by a goal, Low connected on a left-to-right cross from Josh Hardy (Burnaby, B.C.), volleying his offering home from six yards out.
Despite the Spartans holding a 6-1 edge in shots on the goal, the 黑马磁力, B.C.-side solved UBCO keeper Nicholas Reitsma just once. TWU also had a 14-5 advantage in total shots.
The Heat鈥檚 Corbin Beauchemin opened the scoring in the 55th minute.
The first half provided very little in terms of scoring chances as the Heat didn鈥檛 record a shot on target while the Spartans had just two.
It wasn鈥檛 until the 56th minute that the Heat got their first shot on goal but they made it count. Off a corner, the ball dropped to second-year midfielder Corbin Beauchemin 10 yards out and he made no mistake firing it into the bottom left corner. Fifth-year defender Shaun Pilcher picked up the assist after connecting first on Nikhil Redyy鈥檚 ccorner.
TWU鈥檚 Joel Waterman (Aldergrove, B.C.), Vito Poletto (Calgary) and Scott Poffenroth (Calgary) were shown yellow cards, while the Heat鈥檚 Tyler Dhillon and Jayden Jordan also saw yellow.
TWU Head Coach Mike Shearon said the Spartans men鈥檚 soccer team needs to 鈥渃ontinue to refine our attacking movements and take our chances.鈥�
鈥淚鈥檓 glad we could come back after being down 1-0, but we probably should have gotten a little bit more out of the game considering the way we played,鈥� Shearon said.
鈥淚t鈥檚 an okay start and to put a positive spin on it, we earned one more point (in Kelowna) than we did last year.鈥�
The Spartans were also scheduled to play Thompson Rivers this past weekend, but that game was also postponed and will be played later in the season.
The Spartans return to 黑马磁力, for their home-opener Friday against Victoria at Chase Office Field. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. (PT). The game will be streamed live at .
