LANGLEY, British Columbia – Trinity Western second-year midfielder Jordan Low (Port Moody, B.C.) scored in extra time to give the Spartans a come-from-behind 2-1 victory over the Fraser Valley Cascades Sunday afternoon at Rotary Park in Abbotsford, B.C. The victory improves the Spartans to 6-2-5 and a weekend sweep of the Cascades, while the loss drops UFV to 2-10-0.

The extra-time goal concluded a second-half rally for the Spartans, scoring twice in the final 27 minutes to earn their sixth win of the season.
Fourth-year keeper Jordan Marwood (Langley, B.C.) made five saves in the Spartans' win, while Fraser Valley's Kody Torrance made seven saves in the loss.

AS IT HAPPENED
The two teams remained scoreless after the first half, but just over six minutes into the second half the Cascades got on the board. UFV's Mateo Brazinaha beat the Spartans Marwood to the ball on a pass back to the TWU keeper. A sliding Brazinaha clipped the ball, Marwood got a piece of the ball, but not enough as Brazinaha was able to get to the rebound and put the ball into the open Spartan net in the 52^nd minute.
 
TWU third-year forward Charles Nana (Calgary, Alta.) got his fourth of the season on a fine individual effort. Low got Nana the ball on the left side of the UFV penalty area where Nana weaved his way through the Cascades defenders. Then stopped and did a side step to clip the ball past the UFV keeper from inside the six to tie the match at 1-1 in the 64^th minute.
 
The Spartans' final goal in extra time started off of a corner kick by TWU second-year forward Keishean Francois (White Rock, B.C.). Francois sent the ball to the far side of the penalty area where TWU third-year defender Adam Hajdecki (Surrey, B.C.) reversed kicked the ball to the center of the box. Spartans second-year defender Mario Banovic (Burnaby, B.C.) went high in traffic and headed the ball toward the Cascades net. As the ball was heading towards UFV's Torrance TWU's Low headed the ball again over Torrance and into the top of the Fraser Valley net to give TWU the 2-1 victory.
 
QUOTABLE
TWU Head Coach Mike Shearon
"Proud of the group today, we pulled off a win in the dying moments of the game. So super happy for the guys and all the effort that they put in this weekend."
 
"Probably should have had a goal in the first half, but we didn't take our chances well."  
 
"It was a bit of a bad play on us that gave them their goal, but the boys hung in there and were resilient and got one back. And then got the one in extra to give us the sweep on the weekend."
 
"Now we will rest up and see what we have to do on the last weekend."
 
NOTABLE

• The Spartans outshot the Cascades 17-7 and had a 9-6 edge in shots on goal.
• TWU finished with a 4-1 edge in corner kicks
• The Spartans finished with two yellow cards, while the Cascades' had one. Both teams had nine fouls.
• The Spartans are 19-13-5 lifetime against the Cascades
• In their last meeting on Friday night in Langley, B.C. the Spartans defeated the Cascades 5-2.

UP NEXT
The Spartans will have a week off before finishing the season at home on October 20-21. TWU will match-up with the UBC Thunderbirds on Friday night, and then end the regular season on Saturday night against the Victoria Vikes. Match time at Chase Office Field in Langley, B.C. is set for 7:15 p.m. (PT) and 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 14 U SPORTS team championships and 34 Canada West team championships.
 
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