LANGLEY, British Columbia– The Fraser Valley Cascades's Taylor Richardson scored two goals late in the game to give the Cascades a 3-1 win over the Trinity Western Spartans Friday night at Chase Office Field on TWU's Langley, B.C. campus. The loss drops the Spartans to 5-6-2, while the win moves the Cascades to 4-4-2.
 
Trinity Western's Charles Tchouya Nana  (Calgary, Alta.) got the lone goal for the Spartans, while UFV's Trevor Zanatta had the other marker for the Cascades.
 
Trinity Western's Alexander Cordeiro (Burnaby, B.C.) made three saves in the loss, while UFV's Jackson Lau made five saves to earn his first win of the season.
 
UFV's Zanatta opened the scoring in extra time of the first half to put the Cascades up 1-0 at the break. TWU's Tchouya Nana tied the match up for the Spartans with a penalty kick goal in the 75^th minute.
 
Fraser Valley's Richardson gave the Cascades the lead in the 83^rd minute and less than a minute later got the insurance goal for UFV to put the Cascades up 3-1 with less than seven minutes to play in the contest.
 
QUOTABLE
TWU Head Coach Michael Shearon
"I thought we played well tonight. We did a lot of things that we wanted to do tonight, but lost three moments of the game and that bit us. We didn't take care of our moments when we needed to and we let them hang around for a bit. And when you do that a team like Fraser Valley that grinds and works and can play you're going to be in trouble in the end and that's what happened tonight."
 
NOTABLE
• The Spartans are now 17-12-5 lifetime against the Cascades.
• The loss makes it three straight losses for TWU and drops them below .500 on the season.
• The Cascades Charandeep Rangi assisted on all three of the Fraser Valley goals.
• TWU outshot UFV 15-13 in total shots with both teams having six shots on target. The Spartans had a 3-1 edge in corner kicks.
• The match had seven yellow cards and two red cards.
 
UP NEXT
The two teams will now head to Abbotsford for a 1 p.m. rematch on Sunday afternoon. The game can be seen live on Canada West TV.
 
About Spartan Athletics
As official members of U SPORTS, the Spartans currently compete in 13 sports in the Canada West conference, including women's and men's soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey, cross country and track & field, as well as women's rugby sevens. TWU also competes as an independent team in men's rugby. Since TWU entered U SPORTS in 1999, the Spartans have won 13 U SPORTS team championships and 32 Canada West team championships.
 
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