The Alberta Pandas are all that stand in the way of the Trinity Western Spartans women’s soccer team and a return trip to the Canada West Final 6 championships.
The Spartans wrapped up their regular season with a 1-0 win over the Victoria Vikes and a scoreless draw versus the UBC Thunderbirds.
The result gave UBC the West Division title by two points over TWU.
“I’m disappointed we didn’t find another gear and find a little bit more offence tonight and give us a chance to win,” said Spartans coach Graham Roxburgh.
“In the second half, I don’t really remember them really threatening our goal, but we didn’t really generate anything that gave them trouble.
“But I was pleased with the kids. They battled hard and kept pressing. I thought our work rate in the second half got better.”
Trinity Western — which lost the season opener to UBC back in September — finished on a 13-game unbeaten streak (10-0-3) and this was the fifth straight year they finished with just one regular season loss.
The Spartans also finished as the highest-scoring team (37 goals) and the stingiest (six goals).
Trinity Western now hosts Alberta in a west region quarter-final game on Friday at Rogers Field (6 p.m.).
The Spartans won the lone meeting between the two clubs 3-0 last month.
And while the women’s team gets home-field advantage for their playoff game, the Spartan men’s side hits the road in Calgary to face the Dinos in a Canada West quarter-final.
Trinity Western finished with a 5-5-2 record after dropping their final two regular season games over the weekend, losing a pair of road games, 4-0 to UBC and 5-1 to Victoria, to finish fourth in the Pacific Division.
Leighton Johnson had the lone Spartan score.
Calgary won the Prairie Division at 8-2-2.
