Ottawa Fury FC was eliminated from the Amway Canadian Championship Wednesday night in Alberta, falling 3-1 to FC Edmonton.

Only Vini Dantas, with a consolation goal in the 90th minute, was able to find the back of the net behind Eddies goalkeeper John Smits in front of about 2,000 fans at Clarke Stadium.

The loss kills Ottawa's hopes of meeting MLS side Montreal Impact in the semi-finals of the Canadian Championships, a meeting that would have been great visibility for the expansion Fury FC.

The loss, which saw Ottawa trailing 1-0 at the half and very much still in the game, was particularly disappointing for the Fury considering how strong the club looked in a 4-0 dismantling of the Carolina RailHawks at home on Saturday.

"We were a better team in the first half, we just didn't score," said Fury FC head coach Marc Dos Santos at the intermission, adding he was "confident" they would come back in the game.

It wasn't to be.

Edmonton has been around longer and plays a stingy defensive game. While they have yet to win in NASL league play this season, they also have yet to allow more than one goal.

After Ottawa and Edmonton played to a scoreless draw in the first leg of the quarterfinal in Ottawa a week ago, it was Edmonton 17-year-olds Hanson Boakai, with a goal, and Marko Aleksic, with a strong defensive game, who helped put the Eddies over the top Wednesday.

Boakai and Daryl Fordyce, with a pair, scored for Edmonton, who now move on to play a two-game home-and-home series with the Impact.

Toronto FC and the Vancouver Whitecaps meet in the other semifinal, with the winner of the tournament representing Canada at the CONCACAF Champions League tournament.

Having drawn 0-0 in the first leg last week, the series was there for the taking for both teams, and early on, Ottawa did all the running.

They had a number of free kicks around the FC Edmonton penalty area that they were unable to convert.

Midfielder Sinisa Ubiparipovic came close, bending a free kick from the corner of the penalty area over the FC Edmonton wall and off the top of the crossbar.

Ubiparipovic and midfielder Tony Donatelli were creating plenty of problems for FC Edmonton, dictating the pace of play for the majority of the first half.

Donatelli had number of efforts on goal, but could not generate enough power in his shots to trouble Edmonton goalkeeper Smits.

At the other end, FC Edmonton had difficult generating much early on until striker Frank Jonke was able to get to the end of a long ball along the wing and knocked it back to Boakai.

The diminutive midfielder, who physically probably wouldn’t look out of place in an under-14 game, was able to get around Fury defender Drew Beckie and send in a low cross towards Fordyce, who turned it in.

The goal snapped a drought of nearly 300 minutes for FCE Edmonton, having failed to score in their previous three games.

Boakai increase the lead three minutes into the second half, taking advantage of a horrendous mistake by the Ottawa defence.

Boakai jumped on an errant pass at the top of the Fury penalty area and went in alone on goal. His first effort to chip goaltender Devala Gorrick was palmed away, but Boakai chased down the rebound and fired it into the open net. He would later get the ball along the wing and found Fordyce at the top of the box, who bent the ball into the corner of the net to put Edmonton up 3-0.

Dantas was able to pull one back for Ottawa in the dying moments, getting behind the Edmonton defence and poking a shot past Smits.

Ottawa will travel to Atlanta where Fury FC will take on the Silverbacks before returning home for a May 10 match against the Tampa Bay Rowdies May 10 at Carleton University.

- Files from Derek Vandiest

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