{"id":874369,"date":"2026-08-28T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874369\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:14:24","slug":"dinos-claim-crowchild-classic-bragging-rights-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874369\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinos claim Crowchild Classic bragging rights in season opener"},"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\/2026\/08\/UA_Bears_200.png\" alt=\"Alberta\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Alberta<\/p>\n<p>9\/5\/2026 | 2:15 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Sep. 05 (Sat) \/ 2:15 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\/2026\/08\/UA_Bears_200.png\" alt=\"Alberta\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Alberta&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/opponent-history\/alberta\/211\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    CALGARY \u2013 The University of Calgary Dinos men&#8217;s soccer team opened its season with a 2-0 win over the Mount Royal University Cougars in from of 1,787 fans on Thursday at McMahon Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Dinos improved to 1-0-0 to open the year, while defending Canada West champion Mount Royal fell to 0-1-0. The first half started quietly before <a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/jacob-hunter\/16458\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16458\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Hunter<\/a> broke the deadlock in the 33rd minute with a highlight-reel\u00a0bicycle kick goal. Calgary carried a 1-0 lead into halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary doubled its lead in the 63rd minute when <a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/luis-rangel-kataev\/16506\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16506\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Rangel-Kataev<\/a>, just moments after entering as a substitute, converted a feed from Hunter for his own first goal of the year. <a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/william-omoreniye\/16465\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16465\" target=\"_blank\">William Omoreniye<\/a> had a chance to make it 3-0 from the penalty spot in the 69th minute but sent his attempt wide.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/hany-shafie\/16470\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16470\" target=\"_blank\">Hany Shafie<\/a> made five saves to preserve the clean sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on his first goal as a Dino, Rangel-Kataev said the nerves gave way to excitement the moment he stepped on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as I stepped on the pitch, all the nerves went away, and I was just so excited to finish with that goal. That was very emotional for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The win opened head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/coaches\/ramon-mifflin\/2579\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2579\" target=\"_blank\">Ramon Mifflin<\/a>&#8216;s third season with the Dinos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an amazing battle,&#8221; said Mifflin.<\/p>\n<p>With a roster built around so much young talent, Mifflin said his message to the group is simple.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fight, have fun, have joy, have personality, have presence, and good things will happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Dinos will return to action Saturday, Sept. 5, at 2:15 p.m. when they travel to face the Alberta Golden Bears in Edmonton. The game can be seen live on Canada West TV powered by BioSteel.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Royal will travel to face the MacEwan Griffins on Saturday, Sept. 5, at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>-UC-<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Alberta 9\/5\/2026 | 2:15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-874369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874369","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=874369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}