Box Score Windsor, ON - Friday (Oct. 9) in Windsor the Gryphons Men's Soccer team won 5-2 over the Windsor Lancers. With the win, the Gryphons improve to 6-4-2 on the season while Windsor falls to 9-2-1 (wins-losses-draws).
Coming into Friday's match, the Gryphons were in tough against one of the hottest teams in the country. The Windsor Lancers Men's Soccer team was riding a 7-game win streak. During that win streak, the Lancers had recorded shutouts in 6 of the 7 games and allowed just one goal over that seven game stretch. In the 10th minute, the Gryphons were able to do something not many OUA opponents have done this season and opened the scoring with a goal from second year midfielder
Josh Seguin (Niagara Falls, ON) to give the Gryphons a 1-0 lead. In the 19th minute, the Gryphons would strike again, this time on a goal from rookie defender
Tomasz Skublak (Hamilton, ON) as the Gryphs took a 2-0 lead into the locker room at the half. In the 66th minute, the Gryphons lead would grow to 3-0 when first year striker
Jace Kotsopoulos would score his 9th goal of the season - putting him 2nd in the CIS in scoring, next only to Windsor's Leighton Speechley-Price who has 10. Windsor got on the board moments later to make it a 3-1 game, but two more goals by the Gryphons in the 73rd and 75th minute marks would seal the three points for the Gryphons. Skublak scored his second of the night to make it 4-1, then
Jalen Noronha (Wellesley, ON) capped the scoring to make it 5-1. Windsor would add one more late, but the damage had already been done. Coming into the game, the Windsor Lancers had conceded 5 goals all season (in 11 games)...the Gryphons scored 5 on the night and will look to carry that momentum into their next game which comes on Wednesday, October 14 versus Western at 6pm at the Gryphon Soccer Complex.