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The Montreal Roses won the Supporters’ Shield this year for finishing first in the six-team Northern Super League’s regular season.<\/p>\n
The NSL front-runners demonstrated Sunday they have their eyes focused on a much bigger prize.<\/p>\n
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
Elyse Bennett opened scoring in the 12th minute, and teammate Marie-Yasmine Alidou doubled the lead 19 minutes later. <\/p>\n
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NSL & CPL playoff predictions: Who will win it all?<\/p>\n
The NSL and CPL playoffs are here, and the race to become champions is heating up!<\/p>\n
OneSoccer analyst Jordan Wilson joins us to break down the biggest playoff matchups, championship favourites, potential upsets and which teams have what it takes to go all the way.<\/p>\n
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
Goalkeeper Gabrielle Lambert had six shots directed her way but only one on target in registering the clean sheet.<\/p>\n
Vancouver netminder Morgan McAslan faced five on target shots and 18 in total.<\/p>\n
The Roses, which controlled possession for 56 per cent of the match, took four of the game’s eight corners. The Rise received the only three yellow cards of the match.<\/p>\n
The Roses and Rise will play Game 2 of the series next Sunday at Stade Boreale in Montreal.<\/p>\n
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’s opener. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-955186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955186","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=955186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}