>York Region Shooters tied Serbian White Eagles 1-1 to extend their unbeaten streak to 13 games, Toronto Croatia defeated North York Astros 1-0 to snap an eight-game unbeaten run, and SC Waterloo dominated Niagara United 6-2, three games in the CSL First Division Saturday.
Forward Sahjah Reid opened the scoring for Serbian White Eagles at Lamport Stadium in Toronto, finding the net past York Region goalkeeper Adrian Ibanez at the 60 minute mark and the Shooters’ unbeaten run was very much on the line until Adrian Pena beat Serbian Eagles’ goalkeeper Stefan Avramovic at 86 minutes to tie the game, and the 1-1 score held until the final whistle.
York Region Shooters are moving close to being declared the First Division winner with a 10-0-3 WLT record for 33 points, while Serbian White Eagles are at 4-4-4 for 16 points.
Toronto Croatia’s Pero Menalo drove the ball from 20 yards past Astros’ goalkeeper Jason Lopes to find the net for the 1-0 victory over North York Astros, the goal coming at 84 minutes following a hard fought scoreless contest at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga.
The visiting Astros lost midfielder Jose Goncalves De Sousa near the end of the game when he was shown the red card at the 90th minute mark.
Toronto Croatia improve to a 8-3-2 record for 26 points and are second in the table, seven points behind York Region Shooters, each have played 13 games with five games remaining.
The Astros lose their first game in nine matches and have a 5-4-4 record for 19 points in third position in the standings.
Current CSL champions SC Waterloo gained much needed points with the win over Niagara United at Kalar Sports Park in Niagara Falls and it was midfielder Kiril Dimitrov who opened the scoring for Waterloo at just two minutes into the game. Drazen Vukovic made it 2-0 at 26 minutes, his 10 goal of the season, midfielder Adis Hasecic increased the lead to 3-0 at 34 minutes and scored a second goal 12 minutes later for a 4-0 Waterloo lead.
Defender Matt Waddington scored from the penalty spot for Niagara at 48 minutes to reduce the lead to 4-1, Aleksander Stojilikovic made it 5-1 for the visitors, Mohammed Mohammed scored for Niagara at 83 minutes, his 6 goal of the season for a 5-2 score, and midfielder Nikola Miokovic struck for Waterloo to increase the lead to 6-2, the score at the final whistle.
Waterloo improve to 4-7-4 for 16 points, while Niagara United are at 2-9-2 for eight points.
Niagara United were reduced to nine men in the second half when red cards were shown to midfielder Keith Makubuya and forward Andy Tiedt.
There were two games in the CSL Second Division Saturday, Niagara United B defeated SC Waterloo B 3-0 and it was Milton FC B 2, Toronto Croatia B 1.
