Calgary Wild FC edge Halifax Tides in Northern Super League

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 06, 2025 9:28 AM EDT | Last Updated: June 6

Calgary's Wild FC held disconnected the Halifax Tides 3-2 connected Thursday successful the Northern Super League.

Wild (3-2-2) scored 3 first-half goals earlier the winless Tides (0-5-1) countered with 2 precocious successful the second.

Calgary extended its undefeated tally to 4 consecutive games with 2 wins and 2 draws successful that span.

Wild FC defeated the Tides 4-1 successful Halifax connected April 26 for Calgary's archetypal NSL victory, and a week aft the six-team NSL launched with the Vancouver Rise blanking Calgary 1-0.

"It was a akin communicative to the past clip we played Halifax. We enactment the crippled to furniture aboriginal and past we fto them get a spot of momentum astatine the commencement of the 2nd half, but this 1 possibly adjacent much so," said Wild manager Lydia Bedford.

"I springiness afloat recognition to them. This league is precise competitive. They showed that contiguous putting 2 distant successful the 2nd half."

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The Wild's Taegan Stewart scored her archetypal vocation NSL extremity erstwhile the 17-year-old Calgarian drilled a right-foot changeable from the centre container location successful first-half other time.

"It's been coming for a while. I had a mates of chances implicit the past mates of matches, but 3rd clip is simply a charm," Stewart said. "It was truly breathtaking and present I'm wanting more."

She celebrated her archetypal extremity by hopping connected the backmost of guardant Christie Gray's backmost for a tally down McMahon Stadium's pitch.

Taegan's duplicate sister and Wild teammate Keelyn attended their precocious schoolhouse graduation ceremonial successful the day earlier heading to the transportation successful the evening.

"It was a long, engaged time — a beauteous breathtaking time having graduated precocious schoolhouse — but we made it work," said Keelyn.

"It was adjacent much breathtaking that we yet got to stock the tract together, truthful was a cleanable mode to extremity things disconnected for us."

Added Bedford: "T had her archetypal commencement successful the archetypal Halifax crippled and for Kee, she has been pushing and pushing, knocking connected my doorway for erstwhile those minutes are going to come. I'm conscionable truthful arrogant of them both. To beryllium 17 and to beryllium stepping connected the transportation arsenic good arsenic they are conscionable shows each the enactment they person enactment in."

Jenaya Robertson of Delta, B.C., made it 2-0 for the hosts with a left-footed onslaught successful the 41st minute.

Australian defender Ally Green got Calgary's first-half scoring burst underway successful the 23rd minute.

Wild goalkeeper Stephanie Bukovec's bid for a 3rd cleanable expanse successful 4 games was foiled erstwhile Haligonian Saorla Miller and Japanese striker Megumi Nakamura scored successful the 72nd and 76th minutes respectively for the Tides.

Bukovec and Halifax keeper Erin McLeod, who has appeared successful 119 games for the Canadian women's team, each made 1 save.

Bukovec was the busier of the 2 women with 68 touches to McLeod's 36.

Wild FC's adjacent crippled is against AFC Toronto successful Calgary connected June 14. The Tides big Ottawa Rapid FC connected June 10.

Toronto versus Ottawa and Vancouver facing Montreal Roses FC is Saturday's NSL lucifer lineup.