FC Edmonton general manager Tom Leip confirmed after Sunday’s match that the plane tickets were already purchased — and that Arguez would be heading back to Montreal to rejoin the Impact.

The win lifted UBC to 4-0-0 on the Canada West schedule, while the Vikes, the reigning national champs, fell for the first time this season.

Murphy, who scored 16 times in 14 conference games last season and became the first-ever Gryphon to be named male CIS player of the year, scored on opening day as Guelph defeated the Waterloo Warriors by a 3-0 count

Higuain got 10 of the 22 first-place votes cast by the membership of the North American Soccer Reporters. Montero got nine. So, it was a razor-thin margin for Higuain, the brother of Real Madrid star, Gonzalo.

A couple of names familiar to fans of Toronto FC and FC Edmonton made waves in CIS preseason action over the weekend.

Jenna Richardson gave Canada a first-half lead, but thanks to the rampant attacking play of Norway’s Carolina Hansen — and the finishing of sisters Ada and Adrine Hegerberg — the Scandinavians came back with two second-half goals to beat Canada by a 2-1 count.

When the Argentines saw defender Agustina Barroso sent off in the sixth minute for a professional foul in the penalty area against Canadian forward Christine Exeter, the writing was on the wall.

But, the Whitecaps inability to push back invited the Sounders to keep coming forward in droves — and, eventually, the pressure paid off.

In Japan as Canada finalizes its preparations for the U-20 Women’s World Cup. Olivieri spoke to media in a conference call, but didn’t really want to single out any of his players and didn’t want to discuss Canada’s formation or style of play. It’s all part of the cloak-and-dagger operations that go on ahead of the major tournaments.

After all, this is a league that still continues to confuse fans with secret allocation money, and waits for the union to announce salaries (even though it’s a salary-cap league, so salaries are key to fan interest). So, instead of best conference record, the tiebreaker system was designed to be more complicated than it needed.