{"id":645973,"date":"2026-05-03T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645973\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:57:11","slug":"afc-toronto-battles-to-scoreless-draw-with-halifax-tides-in-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645973\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Toronto battles to scoreless draw with Halifax Tides in home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The Halifax Tides remained in second place through the first two weeks of the Northern Super League season after battling host AFC Toronto to a 0-0 draw Sunday at BMO Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Tides and Toronto both have four points (1-0-1) with a win and a draw, but the Tides have a plus-two goal differential, one better than Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Roses lead the table with six points (2-0-0).<\/p>\n<p>Both goaltenders were relatively busy. Toronto&#8217;s Sierra Cota-Yarde faced 12 shots, including six on target, while Halifax &#8216;keeper Rylee Foster faced 13 shots with five on target.<\/p>\n<p>AFC Toronto opened the season on April 24 with a 1-0 win at defending champion Vancouver in a rematch of last year&#8217;s Diana B. Matheson Cup final. Halifax downed visiting Ottawa 3-1 the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Week 3 action kicks off Wednesday with Ottawa (1-1-0) hosting Vancouver (0-2-0). <\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Full match replay:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777849031_260_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Northern Super League: Halifax @ Toronto<\/p>\n<p>Watch Halifax Tides FC and AFC Toronto go head-to-head in Northern Super League action from BMO Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-645973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645973","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=645973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}