Other national soccer results for NL

At the Challenge Cup national senior men’s championship, also contested in Surrey, B.C., the Holy Cross Kirby Group men were seventh, but finished strongly Monday with a 6-1 seeding-round win over the Fredericton, N.B., Picaroons.

Jacob Grant, with three goals, Jake Warren, Alex Dolomount and Mitchell Barry scored Monday for Holy Cross, which went 1-3 in the preliminary round. St. John’s teams representing Newfoundland at the U-15 nationals in Vaughan, Ont., also had positive results on the final day. The girls’ team (1-1-0 in the preliminary round) finished fifth by virtue of a 1-0 win over Saskatchewan, with Ashley O’neill coming off the bench to score the goal and Amanda Pearcey recording the shutout. It was the second straight 1-0 win in the seeding round for the St. John’s team, which had blanked Kitchener, Ont., on Saturday as Camryn Bonia provided the tally and Pearcey came up with the whitewash in goal. Newfoundland’s boys U15 side was ninth, but posted three wins in the 9-through-12 seeding round, including a 2-0 win over New Brunswick Monday. In that one, Dylan Hartson and Owen Sheppard registered markers to support the shutout netminding of Kevin Fenwick.

In Fredericton, N.B., at the national U17 boys championships, Newfoundland, represented by Feildians, wound up sixth, losing 2-0 to Halifax in a seeding game Monday after going 1-2-1 in the preliminary round. In the Canadian girls’ U17 tourney, also held in Fredericton, St. John’s lost to the host team on penalty kicks on Monday to finish eighth. The Newfoundland side was 1-3-0 in the preliminary round.