Despite a shaky regular season opening performance, the soccer X-Men managed a 2-0 victory over the Acadia Axemen Friday evening at the StFX soccer pitch.

“I did feel that the guys played poorly out there today and we now know that we have some work to do, but we were fortunate to come away with the 2-0 win,” commented first year head coach Graham Kennedy.

Kennedy already has a 3-0 exhibition record and now improves his winning streak after earning the first regular season victory today.

Both StFX goals were supplied by third year striker Michael Marousek (Prague, Czech Republic) in the second half. His first goal came at the 60 minute mark, followed by a later goal in the 83rd minute. Marousek also earned Player of the Game honors for the X-Men.

Acadia keeper Andrew MacRae was the Player of the Game for the Axemen, facing six X-Men shots. Andrew MacDonald, a first year keeper from Antigonish, NS, earned the shut out victory in nets for StFX.

The X-Men have the rest of the weekend off and will resume AUS competition with games at UPEI and Mount Allison on September 19th and 20th.