With only 12 minutes remaining in Sunday's Jubilee league final, Holy Cross FC netted the lone goal of the match and secured the right to defend its title at the national women's amateur soccer championship.
The final match, held at the King George V Park, pitted Holy Cross against the Fieldians women's soccer team. Holy Cross' Jessie Noseworthy is positive about the club's chances of winning the Jubilee Trophy at nationals once again. "I think we're going to go in with some confidence," Noseworthy said Sunday. "Coming from Newfoundland, I think we still always have that underdog feeling going in.
I think we get teams underestimating us a lot going in. So I think we're going to go for the win again this year." Noseworthy said Sunday's match came down to the final moments but the club remained confident on the pitch and stuck to its game.
Teammate Keisha Younge added there were a lot of suspenseful moments in the match that ultimately went on for 93 minutes. "There's a lot of anxiety going into this season.