Two local soccer squads are among the four seeded teams in BC Soccer’s Men’s Provincial A Cup draw.
ICST Pegasus of the Vancouver Metro Soccer League (VMSL) and North Delta SC Lions of the Fraser Valley Soccer League (FVSL) were among the seeded teams in the 16-team single knockout provincial championship competition, which will begin the weekend of April 18-19.
Premier Division champions West Van FC of the VMSL and Cowichan FC of the Vancouver Island Soccer League (VISL) were the other two seeded tams.
Pegasus, the second-place team in the VMSL Premier Division with a 12-3-7 record, will host Saanich Fusion FC of the Vancouver Island Soccer League (VISL).
North Delta will also play a VISL opponent in the round-of-16, playing at home against Nanaimo United FC. The SC Lions topped the FVSL Premier Division at 14-3-4.
Surrey United of the Metro Women’s Soccer League (MWSL) will be seeking an 11th consecutive Women’s Provincial A Cup championship. United, in first place in the MWSL’s Premier Division with a 13-2-2 mark, is among the seeded team and has a bye through to the quarterfinal round.
They will begin play the weekend of April 25-26 against either Castaways FC of the VISL or Coastal FC of the MWSL.
The North Delta SC Rangers of the FVSL have been seeded number-one in the Deryl Hughes Cup for Masters (over-35) men’s teams.
The Rangers easily topped the FVSL’s Masters standings with a 15-5-1 record, 12 points clear of second-place Surrey FC Temple United (12-2-7).
The Rangers will play Howe Sound FC of the North Shore Coaches League (NSCL) in the round-of-16. Howe Sound placed second in the seven-team NSCL with a 7-1-4 record.
Temple United, one of four FVSL teams in the Deryl Hughes Cup, has drawn Romanian FC of the VMSL as their first-round opponent. Romanian is the fourth-place team out of the VMSL with a 7-4-5 record.