Ridgebacks women’s soccer team advances to provincial Final Four

For the second time in the program’s five-year history, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology’s (UOIT) women’s soccer team will compete in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Final Four tournament.

The Ridgebacks earned a spot in the OUA semi-finals with a dominant 2-0 victory over the Laurentian Voyageurs at Oshawa’s Civic Fields on October 29. UOIT will meet the Windsor Lancers in a semi-final match on Friday, November 4 in London, Ontario. The tournament host Western Mustangs will play the Queen’s Gaels in the other semi-final. The medal games take place on Sunday, November 6.

The Ridgebacks posted the best record in the OUA during the regular season, going 13-2-1 en route to capturing the East Division title.

The Ridgebacks other trip to the provincial championship came back in 2014 where the team won a bronze medal, their first in program history.

The OUA Final Four will determine the Ontario representatives for the U Sports (formerly Canadian Interuniversity Sport) eight-team national championship from November 10 to 13 at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.