{"id":197773,"date":"2026-09-06T01:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197773\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T01:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:16:12","slug":"artunduaga-george-power-golden-bears-to-thrilling-win-over-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197773\/","title":{"rendered":"Artunduaga, George power Golden Bears to thrilling win over Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MRoyal.png\" alt=\"Mount Royal University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> Mount Royal University<\/p>\n<p>9\/6\/2026 | 2:15 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Sep. 06 (Sun) \/ 2:15 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MRoyal.png\" alt=\"Mount Royal University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Mount Royal University&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/bearsandpandas.ca\/sports\/mens-soccer\/opponent-history\/mount-royal-university\/55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    EDMONTON \u2014 The Alberta Golden Bears opened their season in dominant fashion, blanking the Calgary Dinos 3-0 on Saturday afternoon at Foote Field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Veteran forward <a href=\"https:\/\/bearsandpandas.ca\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/justin-george\/16094\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16094\" target=\"_blank\">Justin George<\/a> scored twice in the second half to go along with an absolute stunner from Gio Artenduaga in his first career U SPORTS contest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite Calgary holding a slight 9-8 edge in total shots, Alberta proved far more lethal with their opportunities, converting five shots on target into three goals to move to 1-0-0 on the year. Along with the goals from George and Artunduaga, defender <a href=\"https:\/\/bearsandpandas.ca\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/dylan-marple\/16099\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16099\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Marple<\/a> and forward <a href=\"https:\/\/bearsandpandas.ca\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/prince-amanda\/16088\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16088\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Amanda<\/a> each recorded an assist. In goal, <a href=\"https:\/\/bearsandpandas.ca\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/trystan-read\/16102\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16102\" target=\"_blank\">Trystan Read<\/a> turned aside all three shots he faced to earn the shutout, the fifth of his Golden Bears career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Calgary, Nabeel Naboulsi and Joey Plenzik led the team with two shots apiece, while Nick Carr and William Omoreniye each put a shot on target. Goalkeeper Hany Shafie stopped two shots in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary controlled much of the early tempo, generating several quality chances, including a stoppage of a William Omoreniye effort by Alberta&#8217;s backline in the 43rd minute.\u00a0However, Alberta broke the deadlock in the final seconds of the first half when Artunduaga\u00a0sent a rocket over the head of Shafie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Bears carried that momentum directly into the second half, as George headed in a corner kick from <a href=\"https:\/\/bearsandpandas.ca\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/prince-amanda\/16088\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16088\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Amanda<\/a>.\u00a0George struck again unassisted in the 71st minute, burying his second goal of the match to extend the advantage to 3-0. \u00a0A physical contest that featured eight total yellow cards saw Calgary push late for a response, but Read made key saves against Carr and Plenzik in the closing minutes to preserve the clean sheet.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Bears will host the Mount Royal Cougars tomorrow afternoon to cap off home-opening weekend.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: Mount Royal University 9\/6\/2026 | 2:15 PM &#13; Sep. 06 (Sun) \/ 2:15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-197773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-calgary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}