In the tradition of the classic cup tie, one team raised its game and the other, the one expected to win, reverted to complacency, a dangerous state of mind when you have trouble in bolting the back-door.
And so it proved. York9, one goal at home in their last five CanPL games contrived to pierce the porous Impact rearguard twice, something they have achieved on only two occasions in 11 league games this season.
In the inaugural meeting between sides from their respective leagues, the first success should and would have gone to the CanPL side, but for Nathan Ingham’s rush of blood to the head in the last minute of regulation time.