{"id":204512,"date":"2025-10-11T06:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204512\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:01:10","slug":"dinos-down-cougars-to-claim-prairie-division-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204512\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinos down Cougars to claim Prairie Division crown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tStory Links&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n   &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MRoyal.png\" alt=\"Mount Royal\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Mount Royal<\/p>\n<p>10\/19\/2025 | 1:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Oct. 19 (Sun) \/ 1:00 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MRoyal.png\" alt=\"Mount Royal\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Mount Royal&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/opponent-history\/mount-royal\/129\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    CALGARY \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/sofia-digiacomo\/16481\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16481\" target=\"_blank\">Sofia DiGiacomo&#8217;s<\/a> goal in the 54th minute gave the University of Calgary Dinos a 1-0 win over Mount Royal Friday night on a memorial &#8216;Seniors&#8217; Night&#8217; from McMahon Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Dinos\u00a0incredible season continues as they not only remain undefeated and improve to 11-0-2 on the year, but they claim the Canada West Prairie Division title for the second consecutive season, ensuring a home Canada West quarterfinal contest on Friday, Oct. 24.<\/p>\n<p>MRU &#8211; which entered the day as the only team still capible of catching the Dinos in the race for the division title &#8211; falls to 9-3-1 on the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We talked pre-season about making this (McMahon Stadium) a fortress, it&#8217;s our new home,&#8221; Calgary head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/coaches\/diogo-raposo\/2583\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2583\" target=\"_blank\">Diogo Raposo<\/a> said. &#8220;Obviously, the opportunity to host at home and to have great feelings here in the first round of the playoffs is important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two city rivals &#8211; which ironically hadn&#8217;t played each other in a league game since 2021 despite the two campuses being separated by a mere eight kilometres &#8211; battled to a scoreless first half. The Dinos held the majority of possession and out-shot the Cougars 9-1 in the opening frame.<\/p>\n<p>But the difference maker\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t come until the second half. <a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/kaleigh-major\/16489\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16489\" target=\"_blank\">Kaleigh Major&#8217;s<\/a> corner kick eventually found the head of <a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/brooke-batty\/16476\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16476\" target=\"_blank\">Brooke Batty<\/a>, who sent the ball across the face of goal to a wide-open DiGiacomo and the senior made no mistake for her third goal of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a relief, honestly,&#8221; said DiGiacomo about how she felt after scoring the goal. &#8220;We still had 30 minutes left to go, but I think it was a game where we were dominant. We were in their zone kind of a lot of the game. Their goalie made some crazy saves, so it was just a bit of relief and kind of a weight off the shoulders now that we&#8217;re in a good spot and we just have to finish the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Dinos continued to apply pressure but the game would finish with just the one goal, thanks in large part to a strong performance in net from Mount Royal&#8217;s Ella Filek, who was credited with six saves in this one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/anna-demarbre\/16480\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16480\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Demarbre<\/a> &#8211; who not only celebrated her final regular season home game, but also her birthday on Friday &#8211; made one save for her fifth shutout win of the season, improving her record to 7-0-1 on the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Dinos and Cougars close out the season facing off one more time with a Sunday, Oct. 19 finale scheduled to kickoff at 1 p.m. from the MRU campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We still have another game. We still have to play Mount Royal again,&#8221; Raposo said. &#8220;Obviously, they&#8217;re a great opponent and pushed us today. We have to play at their home,\u00a0which will be a little bit different. It&#8217;s grass, the pitch is smaller. But I think it&#8217;s just riding that momentum. We still need to get better. I think we have to be humble enough to understand we&#8217;re not a finished product. So we&#8217;ll continue to pick out some pieces that we can get better at.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-UC-<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Mount Royal 10\/19\/2025 |&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-204512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}