Brampton City United FC
TWO GOALS BY ALEX BRALETIC IN BRAMPTON VICTORY SATURDAY
Two goals by forward Alex Braletic earned Brampton City Utd a 3-1 victory over Niagara United at Kalar Park in Niagara Falls, the only game played in the CSL First Division Saturday.
It was the first victory of the season for the GTA club following a 6-2 loss to Kingston FC in the opener on May 5, while Niagara United are still without a win following early season ties against London City on May 10 and SC Waterloo on May 12.
Niagara midfielder Rudy Pikzinski opened the scoring for the home side at 46 minutes following a scoreless first half. Pikzinski lifted the ball over the head of Brampton goalkeeper Euloge Awitor Kodzo and Braletic tied the game 1-1 with his first goal at the 62nd minute mark.
Brampton’s Marcos Nunes put the visiting side up 2-1 at the 74th minute when he found the net past Niagara goalkeeper Jonathan Buggeling following a breakaway down the right side and Braletic increased the lead to 3-1 at 91 minutes, the score at the final whistle.
There were three games in the CSL Second Division Saturday:
Niagara United B 2, Brampton City Utd 2
SC Waterloo B 3, St. Catharines Wolves B 2
Toronto Croatia B 2, Kingston FC B 1
Remaining games in the CSL this weekend:
FIRST DIVISION
Sun, May 26 Esther Shiner Stadium 4:30 PM Astros Vasas FC vs Kingston FC
Sun, May 26 St. Joan of Arc 6:30 PM York Region Shooters vs Serbian White Eagles
Sun, May 26 Warrior Field Waterloo 7 PM SC Waterloo vs Burlington SC
Sun, May 26 Centennial Stadium 8 PM Toronto Croatia vs London City
SECOND DIVISION
Sun, May 26 St. Joan of Arc 4 PM York Region Shooters B vs Serbian White Eagles B
KINGSTON FC DOMINATE BRAMPTON 6-2 IN SEASON OPENER
Kingston FC bounced back from an early 1-0 deficit, scoring five goals in succession to dominate Brampton City Utd 6-2 in the well-attended season opener at Queen’s West Field in
Midfielder Catalin Lichioiu gave the home side a 2-1 lead at 30 minutes when he drove s low shot that beat
Tony El-Asmar scored from six yards to increase
The game opened the season for the Canadian Soccer League following a postponement of the
“Absolutely magnificent performance from the team, they brought everything we were looking for. Team stuck to the pattern of play we practiced in training,” said Kingston FC head coach Colm Muldoon.
“I’m just thrilled with the outcome today, our guys were in great shape and were full value for the 6-2 victory and to win the reserve game as well was extra special,” said Lorne Abugov, chairman of Kingston FC.
Kingston FC travel to Centennial Stadium in Toronto’s west-end on Sunday, May 12 for their second game of what is their second season in the CSL, while Brampton City Utd visit Kalar Sports Park in Niagara Falls on Saturday night May 25, for the season home opener for Niagara United.
LONDON OPENER CALLED OFF…It’s Kingston FC vs. Brampton City Utd in Sunday double header
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The CSL season opener between London City and SC Waterloo was postponed Friday night due to conditions around the perimeter of the playing surface at the BMO Field in London ruled to be unsatisfactory
MONTREAL ACADEMY, TORONTO CROATIA IN CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL……SC Toronto Reserves and Brampton City Utd Reserves in Second Division final
Montreal Impact Academy defeated York Region Shooters 3-1 and Toronto Croatia downed their old rivals Serbian White Eagles 4-0 in the semifinals of the CSL Championship Sunday.
The Montreal Academy side enjoyed their 11th successive victory at the St Jean de Vianney sport centre in Quebec and they will meet the current CSL champions Toronto Croatia following their victory at Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke.
Toronto Croatia took a 1-0 lead over Serbian White Eagles when defender Josip Keran found the net at the 19th minute mark and it was 1-0 at the break.
Tihomir Maletic struck twice in the early stages of the second half as the home side began to control the game, the prolific forward beat Serbian Eagles goalkeeper Milos Djurkovic at 51 and 54 minutes for a 3-0 lead.
Toronto Croatia went further ahead at 86 minutes on a goal by midfielder Andelo Srzentic who found the net from a rebound off the post and the 4-0 score held to the final whistle.
The Quebec side took 1-0 lead at the St Jean de Vianney sport centre at the 26th minute mark, a penalty kick called by referee Christopher Grabasse following a heavy challenge in the box and Wandrille Lefevre drove the ball to right of York Region goalkeeper Emanuelle Ameltonis.
Forward Kadian Lecky tied the game 1-1 for York Region Shooters at the 35th minute mark and it was 1-1 at the interval.
Almost immediately after the re-start, Lefevre moved the ball to Anthony Jackson-Hamel on a breakaway to score the home side’s second goal, a 2-1 lead that held until 94 minutes when Yacine Alt Slimane sealed the victory with a third Montreal goal, it was 3-1 at the final whistle.
The two sides will meet at Centennial Stadium on Saturday, October 27, a 3 pm kickoff and the game will be preceded by the Second Division Championship Final for CSL reserve teams at 12.30 pm.
SC Toronto B and Brampton City Utd B will meet in the Second Division Championship following a 2-0 victory by Brampton over York Region Shooters B at the Avondale ground in Brampton Sunday night.
Following a scoreless first half with Brampton coming close to scoring on several occasions, the home side did take the lead at the 69th minute mark on a goal by forward Michael Tcherenkov who drove the ball into the bottom right corner from the edge of the box.
Midfielder Yusif Walied struck three minutes later to give Brampton a 2-0 lead and the score held to the end of the game to move Brampton to the final.
In the first semifinal played at Downsview Park on Saturday night, Evan Brandon John opened the scoring for SC Toronto, heading home a corner kick out of reach of Mississauga Eagles goalkeeper Mitchell Cavaco, a 1-0 lead at the break.
Mississauga midfielder Laudelino Joe De Sousa then struck twice, at 53 and 58 minutes to put his side 2-1 up and last year’s reserve champions were heading for the Second Division final again this season until Brandon John scored his second goal for the Toronto side, a 2-2 tie at 90 minutes and the score at regulation time.
The teams battled a scoreless15 minutes each way for a 2-2 tie at 120 minutes to take the game into penalty kicks, won 4-3 by SC Toronto reserves.
Weekend summary:
CSL Championship – Semifinals
Montreal Impact Academy 3, York Region Shooters 1
T
oronto Croatia 4, Serbian White Eagles 0
CSL Second Division Championship – Semifinals
Brampton City Utd B 2, York Region Shooters B 0
Played Saturday, October 20: SC Toronto B 2, Mississauga Eagles FC B 2 (after extra time) (SC Toronto won 4-3 on penalty kicks)
Upcoming Games:
CSL Championship – Final
Saturday, Oct 27 Centennial Stadium, Etobicoke 3 pm Montreal Impact Academy vs Toronto Croatia
CSL Second Division Championship – Final
Saturday, Oct. 27 Centennial Stadium, Etobicoke 12.30 pm SC Toronto B vs Brampton City Utd B
BRAMPTON DEFEATS MISSISSAUGA EAGLES 1-0 WEDNESDAY
Brampton City Utd nudged closer to a playoff berth with a 1-0 victory over Mississauga Eagles FC at the Terry Fox Stadium in
Forward Milos Scepanovic struck the all-important goal for the home side at 64 minutes following a scoreless first half during which both sides came close to finding the net with frequent attacks at both ends. Scepanovic collected a pass from the right wing to drive the ball from 25 yards just inside the right post, out of reach of
Referee Michael Anthony Izzo showed the red card to Defender Denny Velastagui of Brampton and Brandon Wellington of
The win improves
Mississauga Eagles FC have a 7-8-5 record for 26 points, still in the running for a playoff berth, but with a diminished chance of being one of the top eight following Wednesday’s loss.
LONDON CITY SURVIVE LATE BRAMPTON RALLY TO WIN 3-2, It’s 1-1 Serbian Eagles and Mississauga
A late second half rally by Brampton City Utd failed to overcome a 3-0 deficit leaving
Forward Dalibor Mitrovic increased the lead to 3-0 for the home side at 56 minutes, but this was followed by a late rally from
London City now have a 6-7-6 WLT record for 24 points to recover from their early season set-backs and are in 9th position in the standings.
It was a close encounter at Centennial Stadium between Serbian White Eagles and nearby Mississauga Eagles FC with the visitors scoring at just three minutes when midfielder Jose Melo found the net from a free kick, it was Melo’s 10th goal of the season.
Serbian Eagles’ Zoran Rajovic struck from 14 yards for the equalizer, his 9th of the season, and the close game failed to produce a winning goal and the game ended a 1-1 tie.
Serbian White Eagles are now at 6-6-4 for 22 points, while Mississauga Eagles FC improve to 7-6-4 for 25 points.
Remaining games this weekend:
FIRST DIVISION
Sun, Sep 2
Sun, Sep 2 Centennial Stadium 8 PM
SECOND DIVISION
Sat, Sep 1 Lions Park 4 PM Brantford Galaxy B vs St. Catharines Wolves B
Sat, Sep 1 Eglinton Flats 7 PM Serbian White Eagles B vs Mississauga Eagles FC B
Sun, Sep 2 Victoria Park 5:30 PM Brampton City Utd B vs Windsor Stars B
SC TORONTO SHARE TOP SPOT FOLLOWING WEEKEND WINS…weather knocks out Brampton vs Mississauga Eagles
SC Toronto join
SC Toronto forward Kyle Hall opened the scoring at 9 minutes at Esther Shiner Stadium in North York, he took control in a goalmouth scramble to kick the ball on the underside of the crossbar and over the line out of reach of Astros’ goalkeeper Enea Perego for the 1-0 lead and just five minutes later midfielder Dane Roberts increased the lead to 2-0, the score at the break.
North York Astros lost forward Vasileios Liagkos at 32 minutes, he was shown the red card by referee Yusri Rudolf for violent conduct.
Toronto forward Jonathan Osorio scored his third goal of the weekend following his two-goal winning effort against Kingston Friday night, he struck at 71 minutes for a 3-0 score and Evroy Junior Ellis scored in the dying seconds to complete the scoring, 4-0 in favour of the visitors.
SC Toronto picked up six points following their two wins over the weekend, they now have a 9-1-4 WLT record for 31 points, a similar record to that of top place
North York Astros are at 2-13-1 for 7 points.
Serbian White Eagles were heading for victory with a 1-0 lead until York Region Shooters tied the game at 91 minutes at the St. Joan of Arc ground in Maple. Following a scoreless first half, forward Sasa Vukoje scored off a cross from the left wing at 49 minutes and the goal held up with little time remaining when Shooters’ defender Ricky Herron took a throw-in to find the net past Serbian Eagles goalkeeper Stefan Avramovic and it was 1-1 at the final whistle.
Herron was shown the red card by referee David Barrie at the end of the game for a reported violent conduct offence.
Windsor Stars equalized at 69 minutes from a goal from the penalty spot when referee Manuel Orellano called
David Kadoic put the ball past Wolves’ goalkeeper Claudio Perri for a 1-1 score which held until the final whistle.
There was one First Division game postponed due to wet ground conditions, the Brampton City Utd vs. Mississauga Eagles FC game was called off Sunday morning.
The complete weekend summary:
Friday, August 10
FIRST DIVISION
SC
Saturday, August 11
FIRST DIVISION
Niagara United 0,
SECOND DIVISION
SC
Niagara United B 2,
SC Toronto B vs. Kingston FC B – postponed, to be rescheduled for a later date.
Sunday, August 12
There were three games in the CSL Sunday:
FIRST DIVISION
SC
SECOND DIVISION
Brampton City Utd B vs Mississauga Eagles FC B Postponed – to be rescheduled
TWO GAMES POSTPONED SUNDAY – Rain washes out Brampton City Utd at Victoria Park
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Due to the amount of rain during the past two days, the ground at Victoria Park in Brampton is unplayable resulting in two CSL games scheduled for Sunday being postponed:
BRAMPTON CITY UTD CRUSH GALAXY 7-1……David Guzman hat-trick
Midfielder David Guzman showed the way with a hat-trick in Brampton City Utd’s crushing 7-1 defeat of Brantford Galaxy at Victoria Park in
Guzman got things underway with a goal just five minutes into the game when he took a pass from Milos Scepanovic who moved the ball into the middle for Guzman to drive into the net.
It was Scepanovic who set up the second goal for Guzman to head home at 19 minutes for a 2-0
Defender Mark Jankovic scored
David Guzman struck his third goal at 72 minutes for a 5-1
Xhameni completed the scoring at 89 minutes for a 7-1 final score.
It was
There was one game played in the CSL Second Division Sunday:
Niagara United B 4,
And the following game was postponed in the Second Division on Sunday and will be rescheduled:
Brampton City Utd B vs Brantford Galaxy B
Summary of the weekend results:
Sunday, August 5:
FIRST DIVISION
SECOND DIVISION
Niagara United B 4,
Saturday, August 4:
FIRST DIVISION
SECOND DIVISION
SC
Serbian White Eagles B 1,
Friday, August 3:
FIRST DIVISION
Serbian White Eagles 6,
BRAMPTON, WINDSOR SCORE SATURDAY VICTORIES….Niagara United, York Region Shooters play to scoreless tie
Brampton City Utd handed Montreal Impact Academy just their second defeat of the season and the first at home in CSL action Saturday, while Windsor Stars edged past Serbian White Eagles 2-1 and Niagara United played to a scoreless tie to give York Region Shooters their seventh tie of the season.
Following a well-played, almost scoreless first half, forward Alex Braletic put Brampton City Utd in the lead at 45 minutes against
Midfielder David Guzman increased the lead to 2-0 for
Windsor Stars struck early with a goal by Michael Lepera after just four minutes in the game with Serbian White Eagles at Windsor Stadium and that score held in a close contest until Viktor Anastasov equalized for the Toronto team at 68 minutes.
It was nine minutes later that Windsor forward Christian Mayorga collected the ball on the six yard line to find the net past Serbian Eagles’ goalkeeper Nikola Marojevic and that proved to be the winner with the score 2-1 at the final whistle.
Niagara United played most of the second half with 10 men to battle to a scoreless tie with York Region Shooters at
It was a hard played encounter with both goalkeepers John De Luca for the home side and Emanuelle Ameltonis for York Region Shooters playing a big part in a scoreless game.
SECOND DIVISION
Niagara United B 2,
SC
FIRST DIVISION
Sun, Jul 22 Esther Shiner Stadium 4:30 PM North York Astros vs Kingston FC
Sun, Jul 22 Seagram Stadium 7 PM SC
Sun, Jul 22 Lions Park 7 PM Brantford Galaxy vs Windsor Stars
Sun, Jul 22 Centennial Stadium 8 PM Toronto
SECOND DIVISION
Sun, Jul 22 Club Roma 6 PM St. Catharines Wolves B vs TFC Academy II
MONTREAL IMPACT ACADEMY, BRAMPTON CITY UTD WIN CANADA DAY
Academy midfielder Wandrill Lefevre led the
New signing Josh Gardner made it 3-0 at 35 minutes, the score at halftime and Lefevre scored his second goal from the penalty spot for a 4-0 lead at 56 minutes. He completed his hat-trick for a 5-0 lead at the 71st minute mark.
Another recent signing, forward Charles Joly scrored twice in the late stages at 80 and 86 minutes to round out the 7-0 victory.
Defender Mark Jankovic opened the scoring for Brampton City Utd at Victoria Park, he found the net from close in past
Forward Milos Scepanovic scored
There was one game in the CSL Second Division Sunday:
SC Waterloo B 2, Brampton City Utd B 0
MONTREAL IMPACT ACADEMY RESUME BID FOR FIRST DIVISION….CSL weekend schedule includes Canada Day double header at Brampton
For Kingston FC, it’s a swing into
The
There are two games in the Second Division on Saturday and one Second Division game on Canada Day Sunday. Brampton City Utd have created a Canada Day double-header at Victoria Park with the one Second Division game playing back-to-back with their first team game against SC Waterloo, which starts at 3 pm.
Holiday weekend games in the CSL:
FIRST DIVISION
Fri, Jun 29 Downsview Park 8 PM TFC Academy vs Kingston FC
Fri, Jun 29 Hershey Centre 8 PM Mississauga Eagles FC vs Windsor Stars
(Televised by
Sat, Jun 30 Kalar 7 PM Niagara United vs North
Sun, Jul 1
Sun, Jul 1
SECOND DIVISION
Sat, Jun 30 Hershey Centre 4 PM Mississauga Eagles FC B vs SC Toronto B
Sat, Jun 30 Eglinton Flats 7 PM Serbian White Eagles B vs St. Catharines Wolves B
Sun, Jul 1 Victoria Park 5:30 PM Brampton City Utd B vs SC Waterloo B