At this year’s Manitoba Summer Games, the Eastman boys won all three of their matches against Parkland, Winnipeg Gold, and Central. None of their opponents managed to score a single goal against Eastman in tournament play.
Eastman went head to head against Westman in the final. With 15 minutes left in the game, Westman opened the scoring. Eastman tied it up with less than a minute of play remaining, forcing two seven and a half-minute overtime periods. After overtime, the game was tied 2–2.
Sport Manitoba predicted there were almost 1,000 fans watching as the teams chose players to participate in a shootout. Three Niverville boys took shots, all scoring, along with a shootout goal from a fourth player. Eastman won gold with a final shootout score of 4–3.
Eastman will hold the gold title until the next Manitoba Summer Games in 2020.
The Eastman girls also won gold in soccer, though no players represented Niverville on that team.
