{"id":955012,"date":"2026-11-02T02:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955012\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T02:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:24:10","slug":"montreal-roses-knock-off-vancouver-rise-in-nsl-semifinal-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955012\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Roses knock off Vancouver Rise in NSL semifinal opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">VANCOUVER \u2014 The Montreal Roses won the Supporters\u2019 Shield this year for finishing first in the six-team Northern Super League\u2019s regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The NSL front-runners demonstrated Sunday they have their eyes focused on a much bigger prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Roses opened their two-leg semifinal series \u2014 and pursuit of the Diana B. Matheson Cup \u2014 with a convincing 3-0 win over the Vancouver Rise at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby, B.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Elyse Bennett opened scoring in the 12th minute, and teammate Marie-Yasmine Alidou doubled the lead 19 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ten minutes after coming in off the bench in the second half, Lisa Pechersky scored in the 73rd minute to make it 3-0 for the Roses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Goalkeeper Gabrielle Lambert had six shots directed her way but only one on target in registering the clean sheet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vancouver netminder Morgan McAslan faced five on target shots and 18 in total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Roses, which controlled possession for 56 per cent of the match, took four of the game\u2019s eight corners. The Rise received the only three yellow cards of the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Roses and Rise will play Game 2 of the series next Sunday at Stade Boreale in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The winner of this series will face the winner of the AFC Toronto-Ottawa Rapid semifinal, which Toronto leads after a 4-2 win in Saturday\u2019s opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 The Montreal Roses won the Supporters\u2019 Shield this year for finishing first in the six-team Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,82],"class_list":["post-955012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955012","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=955012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}