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Kings and Queens finish regular season with wins

Both will play in 2018 ACAC Championships on October 26
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RDC Queens keeper Erin Gill earned her sixth shutout of the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference season in a scoreless draw against the Lethbridge College Kodiaks on Saturday. (Photo by BYRON HACKETT/Advocate Staff)

The RDC Queens saved a breakout offensive performance for the final Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference game of the year.

RDC (8-2-2) rallied for nine goals on the road in Medicine Hat and picked up a 9-1 victory to close out the regular season.

Medicine Hat College scored in just the third minute but from that point forward it was all Queens.

Haley Nassichuk-Dean was a star for RDC in the win with five goals. The Queens second-year forward posted a natural hat trick in just the first 30 minutes of the contest. She added two more goals five minutes apart in the second half and finished the game with eight shots on goal.

Taylor Pankiw also added a pair of goals for the Queens and Kayla Yeo scored once in the win.

The Queens also played to a scoreless draw with the Lethbridge College Kodiaks on Saturday.

It was another clean sheet for second-year Queens netminder Erin Gill, who has six on the year.

The Kings also concluded the ACAC regular season on a high note, with a 2-0 shutout over the Rattlers.

Colin Purnell and Matheus Alves scored four minutes apart late in the second half to power RDC to the win.

RDC clinched a playoff spot on Oct. 14 but was unable to carry that momentum into Lethbridge Saturday.

The Kings (6-3-2) dropped the 3-1 game to the Lethbridge College Kodiaks.

Matthew Elphick found the mark for the Kings in the 11th minutes but from there, it was all Kodiaks.

The home side scored in the 18th minute and the 62nd before Wilson Ntignee capped the scoring in the 89th minute.

Kings midfielder Gabriel Martin Fons received a red card in the 87th minute and in the 90th, Keegan Tingley also earned a red.

RDC will play Concordia University of Edmonton on Oct. 26 to open the 2018 ACAC Men’s Soccer Championships in Calgary. The Queens will also kickoff the 2018 ACAC Women’s Soccer Championships on Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. in Calgary.



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Byron Hackett

About the Author: Byron Hackett

Byron has been the sports reporter at the advocate since December of 2016. He likes to spend his time in cold hockey arenas accompanied by luke warm, watered down coffee.
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