There really is no other way to put it. The Laredo heat fought hard to get to this point and left their mark in the PDL history book by reaching the championship game three times, but defending the title would've been the perfect capper to a otherwise great season.
It wasn't for lack of trying, but they ran into a Thunder Bay team that had a remarkable run to the Championship, twice overcoming obstacles. The first came in their opening round versus Cleveland where they not only survived being two men down for the second half but scored the two winning goals and shut out the Internationals.
On Saturday the team was down a man for 14 regular time minutes, four compensation minutes and two 15 minute halves. While they didn't score and certainly didn't dominate, they did hold off a potent Heat offense and won Canada's first soccer championship.
The atmosphere was great as TAMIU was filled with about 3,430 Heat fans and 21 Chill fans.
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