LAC LA BICHE - The 2024 Men’s and Women’s Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) Futsal North Regional Tournament got underway Friday evening at Lac La Biche's Bold Centre. The weekend-long tournament was hosted by the Portage College Voyageurs.
Futsal is five-aside indoor soccer played on a pitch slightly larger than a basketball court.
WATCH: Portage Women Play
The men's home team opened play on Friday facing the visiting Kings University Eagles. That match ended in a 4-4 tie. The Voyageurs women’s team played later on Friday, losing 7-0 to the women's squad from Kings University.
The ACAC North Regionals also drew teams from Fort McMurray's Keyano College, Lakeland College, NAIT, and Grande Prairie's Northwestern Polytechnic. A similar regional event took place a weekend earlier for southern Alberta ACAC teams including Olds, Prairie College, Ambrose University, SAIT, Lethbridge College, and Medicine Hat College. That event was hosted at Prairie College in Three Hills.
Portage is futsal central
Another round of north and south regional games will be held in February, with Portage once again playing host to the northern teams over the Feb. 2 weekend. The top three teams from the north and south divisions will advance to the ACAC futsal championships that will also be held in Lac La Biche on the March 8 weekend.
Full results of the Jan. 19 regionals in Lac La Biche will be published when they are available.
