HIGH SCORING VORKUTA AND UKRAINE UNITED KEEP TOP POSITIONS SATURDAY
FC Vorkuta and FC Ukraine United continue to lead the way with high scoring victories in the CSL First Division Saturday. Vorkuta defeated CSC Mississauga 6-2, while FC Ukraine United dominated Real Mississauga 8-1. In other games, Hamilton City and Scarborough SC played to a 4-4 draw and Brantford Galaxy struck a last minute equalizer to tie SC Waterloo 1-1.
FC Vorkuta opened the scoring just two minutes into the game with CSC Mississauga at Esther Shiner Stadium when defender Olexander Tarasenko headed just inside the far post. Vorkuta’s Serhii Ursulenko scored into an empty net to make it 2-0 at 17 minutes, his 8th of the season and the goal came following a slip-up in the Mississauga defense.
Sergii Ivliev struck a spectacular goal from 40 yards four minutes later when the Mississauga goalkeeper was caught too far off his line, 3-0 for the home side.
CSC Mississauga cut the lead to 3-1 at 31 minutes, but midfielder Bohdan Riabets made the score 4-1 for Vorkuta with a powerful header from a corner kick by Iaroslav Solonynko. It was 4-1 at the break.
Vorkuta forward Sergii Ivliev scored his second of the game and 8th of the season at 55 minutes following a solo run by Vadym Gostiev who drove a low pass to the near post for Sergii to tap into the near side for a 5-1 score.
CSC Mississauga scored their second of the game at 65 minutes, a 5-2 score and Vorkuta’s Kristijan Kezic opened his goal scoring account at 75 minutes to make the score 6-2 for the home side, the score at the final whistle.
Vorkuta has a 9-1-2 WLT record to lead the standings with 29 points while CRC Mississauga remain at the foot of the standings with a 0-9-2 record.
Ukraine United forward Taras Hromiak scored a first half hat-trick in his side’s 7-1 victory over Real Mississauga at Centennial Stadium in Toronto’s west-end, the goals coming at 15, 27 and 28 minutes, while Ihor Malysh at 18 minutes, Vitali Bohdanov at 51minutes, Yevhen Falkovskyi at 70 minutes, Roman Datsiuk at 70 minutes and Pavlo Lukianets at 81 minutes scored the remainder. It was 4-0 at the break. Midfielder Jpan Syla scored at 59 minutes for Real Mississauga.
Ukraine United has a 8-2-2 record for 26 points in second position in the table and Real Mississauga have a 2-6-2 record for 8 points in 7th position.
Forward Kavin Bryan scored three goals for visiting Scarborough against Hamilton City at the Heritage Field, but the home side recovered from the 3-1 half time deficit to tie the game 4-4. The hat-trick lifted Bryan’s goal tally to 8 for the season. Hammud Ali Atif struck Scarborough’s fourth goal, while Kristian Puljic and Marko Ferlez each scored twice for Hamilton City.
Scarborough remains in third position in the standings with a 6-3-4 record 22 points and Hamilton City retain fourth position with a 5-4-1 record for 16 points.
Waterloo dominated the game early and opened the scoring at 11 minutes when midfielder Jordan Aivaliotis found the net past Brandford Galaxy goalkeeper Georgis Jovicic at the Heritage Field. Waterloo led 1-0 at the interval but as the second half progressed the Galaxy pressed for an equalizer that came at the 90 minute mark, a goal by Uros Vidovic who beat Waterloo goalkeeper Marko Jelic.
Brantford Galaxy now have a 1-6-2 WLT record for 5 points and 8th position in the standings, while Waterloo have a 3-4-2 record for 11 points in 6th position.