Samuel Salter scored a late consolation goal for the seventh-place Wanderers (1-3-2) in the 87th minute.
Later Saturday, defending champions Forge FC scored two first-half goals and held on to edge Pacific FC 2-1 to jump into second in the CPL standings.
Paolo Sabak scored for Forge (4-3-0) from the penalty spot in the 22nd minute before Kyle Bekker doubled the lead eight minutes later. It was Bekker s third goal of the season.
Forge have won two games in a row.
Josh Heard replied for Victoria-based Pacific (3-2-2) in the 77th.
The eight CPL teams are playing at Winnipeg s IG Field for the first part of the season.
July 17, 2021 - 9:59 PM
WINNIPEG - Ali Musse scored in the 52nd minute and Cavalry FC went on to defeat HFX Wanderers FC 2-1 in the Canadian Premier League Saturday.
With the win, Cavalry (3-2-2) snapped its four-game winless skid.
Anthony Novak scored in first-half stoppage time to give the Calgary-based team a 1-0 lead.
Samuel Salter scored a late consolation goal for the seventh-place Wanderers (1-3-2) in the 87th minute.
Later Saturday, defending champions Forge FC scored two first-half goals and held on to edge Pacific FC 2-1 to jump into second in the CPL standings.
Paolo Sabak scored for Forge (4-3-0) from the penalty spot in the 22nd minute before Kyle Bekker doubled the lead eight minutes later. It was Bekker s third goal of the season.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Forge FC’s long-distance Scotiabank CONCACAF League campaign ended Tuesday in an ill-tempered 1-0 loss to Honduras’s CD Marathon that saw both captain Kyle Bekker and coach Bobby Smyrniotis shown red cards in the final minutes.
The game, played on a windy night at an empty Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, marked the Canadian Premier League champions’ second attempt to qualify for the confederation’s elite club competition. They lost their first shot in a penalty shootout loss to Haiti’s Arcahaie FC last week in the CONCACAF League quarterfinal.
Forge has one final chance to qualify when it takes on Toronto FC in the final of the Canadian Championship, slated for the first quarter of 2021.