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Posted: Sep 18, 2022

What a Difference 24 Hours Can Makes

Box Score
Scoring Summary
1st - 9:00 - Samuel Dosumu-Hathro (LAKE)
2nd - 59:00 - Bjorn Goolie (Portage)
2nd - 76:00 - Yassin Hassen (LAKE)
2nd - 85:00 - Giordano Ciccacci (LAKE)
Game Leaders
LAKE
G: 3 Players (#7, #10, #24) - 1
A: 2 Players (#7, #10) - 1
Sh: Giordano Ciccacci - 5
Sv: Nicholas Filipovic - 4
Portage
G: Bjorn Goolie - 1
A: N/A
Sh: 5 Players (#03, #07, #10, #12, #19) - 1
Sv: Makenrik Moosomin - 6
Team Stats
Full stats

LAC LA BICHE – What a difference 24 hours can make. Fresh off an 8-2 pasting at the hands of The Kings' University (TKU) on Saturday in Edmonton, the Portage College Voyageurs' rebounded nicely on home turf, battling the Lakeland Rustlers to a 1-1 draw through 76 minutes of play. A beautiful Rustler passing play and a penalty kick later, however, and the Voyageurs were on the wrong end of a 3-1 score at the Bold Center Soccer Field. 

Lakeland Player of the Game Sam Dosumu led the way with a goal and an assist (with Gio Ciccacci and Yassin Hassen providing the other markers) while Bjorn Goolie notched Portage's lone goal on a penalty kick in the 59th minute. FistonKiese was named Player of the Game for the Voyageurs.

Head Coach Kika Mukuninwa took lots of positives from the entertaining and sometimes chippy affair, particularly given the number of injuries his squad is dealing with early in the season. 

"Definitely today, the guys persevered…Guys were playing with injuries, and guys re-aggravated injuries but everybody stepped up an played a full 90 minutes so it was good," he said, adding that even Saturday's TKU game wasn't as lopsided as the score would suggest, given that the game was scoreless into the 50thminute until the floodgates opened.  

So far this season, the Voyageurs have given up goals in bunches, a tendency their head coach wants them to curb before the 12-game season gets away on them.

"With the guys it's a mentality: how do you overcome conceding goals? That's been a challenge," said Mukuninwa. "That was our challenge last year and it's been a challenge a bit this year so far."

As they prepare for contests next weekend versus Keyano College and NAIT, keeping the ball out of the net will be just what the doctor ordered…well, alright, what the doctor really needs to order is some healing elixir for his banged-up players, smiled Mukuninwa.

"The most important thing will be health," he said. "Guys are playing with knocks. We've got a good physio so that really helps but definitely the biggest thing will be making sure that we go from this week to next week in a better state physically and give ourselves a chance to win because the effort's there."