CEC teams chasing tournament crowns
Cobequid Educational Centre varsity soccer teams will be seeking tournament titles this weekend.
e CEC girls team is in Dieppe, N.B. for tournament action in Dieppe, while the boys head to Windsor for an event at King’s-edgehill.
e girls enter the tournament after a 2-0 victory over the Hants East Tigers on Tuesday in Northumberland region play.
CEC opened the season by win- ning the DAL-AC high school tournament with a 3-0-1 record. In league action, the Cougars also defeated Northumberland 1-0 and lost 2-0 to Dr. JH Gillis Royals. eir next league action is Tuesday, Sept. 25 when they host the North Nova Gryphons for a 4:30 p.m. start.
e CEC boys team is undefeated in Northumberland region play with a 3-0 record. e Cougars defeated Hants East on Tuesday 3-1 on goals by Gabriel Tremblay and Drew Mumford.
This weekend’s tournament Drew Mumford of the CEC Cougars, left, goes against Kinnon Wallace of the Dr. J.H. Gillis Royals during recent high school soccer action in Truro. The Cougars downed the Royals 4-0. at King’s-edgehill will be a good measuring stick for the boys.
CEC opens against last year’s provincial bronze-medallists, Sir John A Macdonald, before a game against King’s-edgehill, who nished fourth in 2017. On the other side of the bracket, three-time champion Halifax West, Parkview and Horton will compete.
Next Northumberland region action for the CEC boys is Sept. 25 when they travel to New Glasgow to face North Nova to nish the rst half of the home-and-home double round-robin schedule.