{"id":63293,"date":"2021-10-04T15:10:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=63293"},"modified":"2021-10-04T15:52:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:52:22","slug":"rams-play-first-home-openers-in-nearly-two-years-following-oua-cancellation-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/rams-play-first-home-openers-in-nearly-two-years-following-oua-cancellation-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams play first home games in nearly two years following OUA cancellation in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ryerson Rams soccer teams played their home openers at Toronto\u2019s Downsview Park on Oct. 2. They were the first home games since March 2020, when the first COVID-19 lockdown cancelled all remaining Ontario University Athletics (OUA) and U SPORTS games and tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>The entire 2020-21 season was also cancelled by USPORTS due to the worsening of the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ontherecordnews.ca\/ryerson-outlines-covid-19-plan-for-varsity-athletes-in-wake-of-game-cancellations\/\">Teams were allowed to practice<\/a> and train together before the lockdowns increased further in-person restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The Rams women\u2019s team, that lost their season opener 1-0 to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues at UofT, won the rematch 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>UofT scored at 34<sup>th<\/sup> minute before Ryerson\u2019s goals came from Christiana Daniel scored at 43<sup>rd<\/sup> minute and Skylar Sheehan-Alley at the 51<sup>st<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Rams men\u2019s team fell to the Varsity Blues 1-0 later that night after winning their season opener at UofT, 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Ryerson controlled possession for most of the match before UofT\u2019s Colin O\u2019Dwyer scored at the 72<sup>nd<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Following the match, Rams men's head coach Filip Prostran commented on what it meant to play in front of a home crowd again.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's a really great feeling today when we rolled in, just to be back playing soccer in the OUA again,\" said Prostran. \"Obviously, a long break off so everyone was excited to get back, [and] go back to your old team that you're so accustomed to.\"<\/p>\n<p>Further, Prostran discussed what it was like to get the team game ready after more than a year off due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think there's not one approach for the whole team, I think every player has played a different amount of soccer and is physically prepared a little differently,\" he said. \"To be honest, it's a slow and easy, custom approach - it's taking extra days off if a guy is hurting or feeling something. You know, it's not like before, where they got months as a team to prepare and get into preseason.\"<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Praveen Ahilan, who took some time off from USPORTS, talks about returning to play for the Rams and the crowd at the home opener.<\/p>\n<p>\"[I] took a couple years off of Ryerson, I forgot how it felt,\" said Ahilan. \"It was a nice feeling seeing people that supported us for a couple years, it's nice seeing familiar faces again, and it was really refreshing after so many years off of OUA soccer.\"<\/p>\n<p>The Rams\u2019 next matches will be at Nipissing University against the Lakers on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to the CJRU news update here:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ryerson Rams soccer teams played their home openers at Toronto\u2019s Downsview Park on Oct. 2. They were the first home games since March 2020, when the first COVID-19 lockdown cancelled all remaining Ontario University Athletics (OUA) and U SPORTS games and tournaments. The entire 2020-21 season was also cancelled by USPORTS due to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":63300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[204],"tags":[4569,9821,9820,9822,9823],"radio":[1380],"origine":[267,269,273],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63293"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=63293"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=63293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}