North York Astros gained a 2-1 away win at Kingston, SC Waterloo defeated Niagara United 2-0 and Brampton City Utd upset Burlington SC 3-1, three games in the CSL Sunday.
The Astros were off to a quick start at the Queen’s West Field at Kingston, scoring almost immediately following the kickoff when midfielder Jose Goncalves De Sousa intercepted a pass by Kingston defender Ryan McCurdy to drive the ball into the net past Kingston goalkeeper Jaroslev Tesar. The score is recorded as one minute and it was 1-0 at the break.
Kingston tied the game 1-1 at 69 minutes when striker Guillaume Surot beat North York goalkeeper Kevin Lumbsden Pinto for his tenth goal of the season, but the winner came from the visitors at 82 minutes, a picture goal from Goncalves De Sousa who struck a cross from the left wing into the far side of the net and the goal held up for a 2-1 final score in favour of the Astros. It was the midfielder’s sixth goal of the season.
The victory marked the first game on the bench since 2011 for Astros’ head coach Jorge Collazo, a position held in the interim by player-coach Igor Pisajunk, and the away win lifted the Toronto area team (3-3-3WLT- 12 points) into a tie with SC Waterloo for sixth position in the standings, while Kingston FC now have a 4-5-2 record for 14 points in fourth position.
Waterloo’s Drazen Vukovic opened the scoring at the third minute mark at the Warrior Field in Waterloo against the visiting Niagara United, taking a cross from Kiril Dimitrov on the chest to volley into the bottom right corner of the net.
It was 1-0 at half-time and scoreless into the second half until the 90 minute when Aleksander Stojiljkovic and Adis Haecic combined to set-up Ramon Bailey who made it 2-0 for the home side, the final score.
Waterloo have moved up quickly to now have a 3-5-3WLT record for a tie for sixth place.
Midfielder Adrian Tismenar scored at the 42 minute for Brampton City Utd at the Nelson Stadium in Burlington for a 1-0 score at the break and Francisco Javier Juarez made it 2-0 for the visitors at 51 minutes.
Juber Quinteros increased the the lead to 3-0 for Brampton at 65 minutes, and Burlington reduced the lead to 3-1 with a goal by Elvis Mesic at 78 minutes, it was 3-1 at the final whistle.
Burlington SC remain in second position in the standings with a 5-3-1 record for 16 points, while Brampton City Utd now have a 3-5-2 record for 11 points in eight position.
There were three games in the CSL Second Division Sunday:
SECOND DIVISION
Kingston FC B 3, Milton FC 0
Brampton City Utd B 2, Burlington SC B 1
SC Waterloo B 3, Niagara United B 1