HAMILTON \u2014 Antoine Batisse scored in added time as Forge FC advanced to the Canadian Championship semifinals with a 2-1 win over Saint-Laurent on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Hamilton-based Forge, currently the top team in the Canadian Premier League, were pushed by Saint-Laurent before eventually winning the two-leg quarterfinal with an aggregate score of 3-2.<\/p>\n
Brian Wright put Forge up 1-0 with a goal in the second minute.<\/p>\n
But Saint-Laurent, which plays in the semi-professional Ligue1 Qu\u00e9bec, drew level on a goal in the 75th minute from Rickson Aristilde.<\/p>\n
Forge will next face the winner of the quarterfinal between CPL sides Atletico Ottawa and Supra du Qu\u00e9bec. The teams square off Aug. 11 in Ottawa. Supra won the opener 3-1.<\/p>\n
In Sunday’s other quarterfinal, Brandan Craig and Daniel Rios scored second-half goals as CF Montreal defeated the visiting Vancouver FC 2-1 at Stade Saputo to win their two-leg series 4-2 on aggregate. Morey Doner scored for Vancouver.<\/p>\n
Craig gave Montreal a 1-0 lead in the 56th minute, and Rios made it 2-0 12 minutes later. Doner scored in the 79th minute but that’s as close as the CPL Vancouver FC side could get.<\/p>\n
The MLS Montreal side advances to the semifinals and will face the winner of Monday’s quarterfinal match between the MLS Vancouver Whitecaps and CPL Calgary-based Cavalry.<\/p>\n
The Whitecaps lead the Calgary-based squad 4-1 after the first leg as they seek a fifth straight Voyageurs Cup.\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON \u2014 Antoine Batisse scored in added time as Forge FC advanced to the Canadian Championship semifinals with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-798268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798268","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=798268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}