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SC Waterloo were held to a 1-1 tie by North York Astros, while York Region Shooters and Brampton City Utd played to a scoreless draw, two games in the Canadian Soccer League First Division Sunday.

Following a scoreless first half at the Warrior Field in Waterloo, striker Drazen Vukovic struck his 4^th goal of the season to open the scoring for SC Waterloo at the 50^th minute mark, finding the net past Astros’ goalkeeper Kevin Lumbsden Pinto

North York tied the game 11 minutes later on a goal by defender Antoine Paul who beat Waterloo ‘keeper Imad Hakura, and the score held to the final whistle.

There were few scoring opportunities at the St. Joan of Arc ground at Maple where the game between the Shooters and Brampton City Utd ended scoreless, a game in which referee Joshua Jaramillo  ejected two players, one in each half.

York Region’s Des Humphrey was shown the red card for Serious Foul Play at 23 minutes and Reisandri Fernandez-Cervantes of Brampton was ordered off at 84 minutes, also for Serious Foul Play.

All the weekend games:

First Division

Kingston FC 4, Toronto Croatia 3

Niagara United 1, Burlington SC 1

London City vs Serbian White Eagles POSTPONED

York Region Shooters 0, Brampton City Utd 0

SC Waterloo 1, North York Astros 1

Second Division

SC Waterloo B 1, Milton FC B 1

Kingston FC B 5, Toronto Croatia B 0

Niagara United B 5, Burlington SC B 0

Winstars Shooters 1, Serbian White Eagles B 0

York Region Shooters B  3, Brampton City Utd B 0

Kingston FC gained a 4-3 away victory over Toronto Croatia and Niagara United FC played to a 1-1 tie with Burlington SC, two games in the Canadian Soccer League Saturday night.

Kingston opened the scoring at the 22^nd minute mark at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga when Toronto Croatia defender Sven Arapovic put the ball into his own net for an own goal while attempting to head back to goalkeeper Christian Maraldo.

The visitors increased their lead to 2-0 four minutes later on a goal by forward Stephane Assengue.

Josip Keran struck for Toronto Croatia at 36 minutes, a low drive from 10 yards to beat Kingston goalkeeper Jaroslav Tesar, a 2-1 score, which was the score at half-time.

Forward Dario Brezak tied the score 2-2 for Toronto Croatia at the 66^th minute mark and this was followed by two goals by Kingston midfielder Catalin Lichioiu who put the visitors 3-2 up at 68 minutes, and he scored a second at 83 minutes for a 4-2 Kingston lead.

Toronto Croatia reduced the lead to 4-3 at 88 minutes on a goal by midfielder Hayden Fitzwilliams, a 4-3 final score in favour of Kingston.

Darko Tomas headed in a cross from the right wing at 41 minutes to put Burlington SC into a 1-0 lead over Niagara United at Kalar Sports Park in Niagara Falls, the score at the break.

Striker Mohammed Mohammed scored his fourth goal of the season to equalize for Niagara United, the goal coming off a corner kick taken by Mark Stencel and the 1-1 score held to the final whistle.

One other game in the CSL First Division, London City vs. Serbian White Eagles, was postponed.

Sunday’s games in the CSL:

FIRST DIVISION

Sun Jun 22 St. Joan of Arc 6.30 pm York Region Shooters vs Brampton City Utd

Sun Jun 22 Warrior Field 7.15 pm SC Waterloo vs North York Astros

SECOND DIVISION

Sun Jun 22 Eglinton Flats 4pm Serbian White Eagles B vs  Winstars Shooters

Sun Jun 22 St. Joan of Arc 9 pm York Reg Shooters vs Brampton City Utd B

Waterloo striker Drazen Vukovic scored a hat-trick in a 4-4 tie at Kingston FC, while Toronto Croatia scored at the last minute to defeat Brampton City Utd 1-0, York Region Shooters downed North York Astros 4-1 and Niagara United scored a 6-0 away victory over London City, four games in the CSL First Division Sunday.

Forward Drazen Vukovic opened the scoring for the visiting Waterloo against Kingston FC at the Queen’s West Field in Kingston, the goal coming at 33 minutes, and the prolific striker added two more for the hat-trick in a game that brought two goals just before the final whistle.

Ranko Golijanin made it 2-0 for Waterloo at 41 minutes, the score at half-time.

Kingston’s Catalin Lichioiu cut the lead to 2-1 at 52 minutes, scoring from a free kick and Paul Willis tied the game 2-2 for the home side at the 74^th minute mark.

Vukovic put Waterloo into a 3-2 lead when he beat Kingston goalkeeper Jaroslav Tesar at 83 minutes and two minutes later Guillaume Surot scored his sixth of the season from the penalty spot following a hand ball to tie the game 3-3.

Vukovic completed his hat-trick at 94 minutes, scoring from the penalty spot to give Waterloo a 4-3 lead. The penalty was awarded when the striker was fouled inside the box.

Ryan McCurdy scored for Kingston just before the final whistle at 95 minutes, heading in off a corner kick past Waterloo goalkeeper Jeff Martins who took over from the injured Imad Hakura earlier in the second half.  A 4-4 final score.

It was looking like a scoreless tie between Brampton City Utd and Toronto Croatia at the Terry Fox Stadium until defender Sven Arapovic headed in to give Toronto Croatia a last gasp victory at 96 minutes.

The goal came from a free kick taken by  just outside the penalty box for Arapovic to beat Brampton goalkeeper Euloge Awitor Kodzo, a 1-0 victory for Toronto Croatia.

Striker Richard West scored the first of two goals at the 2-minute mark for York Region Shooters against the Astros at the St. Joan of Arc ground in Maple, but the visitors tied the game 1-1  7 minutes later on a goal by Jose Goncalves De Sousa who found the net past York Region goalkeeper Emanuelle Ameltonis.

Richard West struck his second at 34 minutes and it was 2-1 in favour of York Region at the break.

Defender Ricky Herron put the Shooters into a 3-1 lead at 56 minutes and York Region Shooters’ forward Oswald Adu rounded the scoring to 4-1 at 75 minutes, which held to the final whistle.

Striker Mohammed Mohammed and midfielder Richard Wilson each scored two goals, with Gary Boughton and Ephrain Cirillo each with singles in the Niagara United 6-0 defeat of London City in the late game played at the Hellenic Centre ground in London.

There were four games in the CSL Second Division:

Milton FC 1, Niagara United FC B 1

Toronto Croatia B 2, Brampton City Utd B 1

Kingston FC B 2, SC Waterloo B 2

Winstars Shooters 3, York Region Shooters B 1

Serbian White Eagles B vs Burlington SC B  POSTPONED

Serbian White Eagles’ striker Milos Scepanovic led his team with three goals to a 6-0 rout of Burlington SC in the only game played in the Canadian Soccer League Saturday night.

Scepanovic opened the scoring at the 15^th minute mark at Lamport Stadium in Toronto when he took a pass from Ramon Bailey to beat Burlington goalkeeper Vladimir Vujasinovic. Bailey was involved in several goals including the second for Serbian White Eagles when he crossed from the right wing for midfielder Luka Maric to head into the net at 24 minutes and it was 2-0, the score at half-time.

Maric made it 3-0 at the 62^nd minute mark and Scepanovic made it 4-0 six minutes later.

Nikola Negojevic increased the lead to 5-0 at 81 minutes and Scepanovic  again took a pass from Bailey for the sixth goal, a move which caught goalkeeper Vujasinovic out of position and Scepanovic, a former Canada youth player,  put the ball into the empty net for the hat-trick, and a 6-0 victory for the home side.

There is a full slate of games in both the First and Second Division Sunday:

FIRST DIVISION

Sun Jun 15    Queen’s West Field      1:00 pm          Kingston FC vs SC Waterloo

Sun Jun 15    Terry Fox Stadium         5:30 pm         Brampton City Utd vs Toronto Croatia

Sun Jun 15    St. Joan of Arc                6:30 pm         York Reg. Shooters vs North York Astros

Sun Jun 15    Hellenic  Centre              8:30 pm        London City vs Niagara United

SECOND DIVISION

Sun Jun 15    Bishop Reding HS      12.00 pm    Milton FC  vs Niagara United FC  B

Sun Jun 15    Terry Fox Stadium      3.00 pm      Brampton City Utd. B  vs  Toronto Croatia B

Sun Jun 15    Queen’s Field West     3.15 pm      Kingston FC  B  vs SC Waterloo B

Sun Jun 15     Eglinton Flats              4.00 pm      Serbian White Eagles B vs Burlington SC  B

Sun Jun 15     St. Joan of Arc             4.00 pm     Winstars Shooters vs York Reg. Shooters B

Kingston FC may have to pull out all the stops to gain a victory at home this weekend as they sideline four players – Jean-Michel Paulin, Edgar Soglo, Fergus Neil and team captain Joe Zupo,  all injured and not be able to play.

 It’s already a tough game against SC Waterloo, the team that defeated the eastern Ontario team in the CSL Championship Final last November 3. Kingston lost their opener, 3-2 to York Region Shooters this season and were held to a 3-3 draw by North York Astros last weekend. They have one win, a 2-1 defeat of Niagara United on May 31. It’s a 1 pm kickoff at Queen’s West Field on Sunday.

 The Astros were full marks for the tie against Kingston, looking particularly strong during a second half rally to recover from a 3-1 deficit, so it’s going to be interesting to see how they fare against a tough York Region Shooters on their home ground at Maple. That game goes Sunday at 6.30 pm.

 One game is scheduled for Saturday when Serbian White Eagles host Burlington SC at Lamport Stadium and fans are reminded that Brampton City Utd play their home game at the Terry Fox Stadium in Chiguacousy Park, Brampton, a change from the original Victoria Park.

                                                                       FIRST DIVISION

Sat Jun 14     Lamport Stadium           7:00 pm           Serbian White Eagles vs Burlington SC

Sun Jun 15    Queen’s West Field        1:00 pm           Kingston FC vs SC Waterloo

Sun Jun 15    Terry Fox Stadium         5:30 pm         Brampton City Utd vs Toronto Croatia

Sun Jun 15    St. Joan of Arc                6:30 pm         York Reg. Shooters vs North York Astros

Sun Jun 15    Hellenic  Centre              8:30 pm         London City vs Niagara United

                                                                   SECOND DIVISION 

Sun Jun 15    Bishop Reding HS      12.00 pm    Milton FC  vs Niagara United FC  B

Sun Jun 15    Terry Fox Stadium     3.00 pm      Brampton City Utd. B  vs  Toronto Croatia B

Sun Jun 15    Queen’s Field West     3.15 pm      Kingston FC  B  vs SC Waterloo B

Sun Jun 15     Eglinton Flats              4.00 pm     Serbian White Eagles B vs Burlington SC  B

Sun Jun 15     St. Joan of Arc             4.00 pm     Winstars Shooters vs York Reg. Shooters B

It was a well-played attractive encounter that could have gone either way at Esther Shiner Stadium despite a 3-1 Kingston FC lead over the Astros in the second half.

Kingston striker Guillaume Surot opened the scoring at the 20th minute mark from a penalty awarded by referee Jorge Alfredo Oyague and midfielder Paul Willis made it 2-0 for the visitors 9 minutes later.

North York midfielder Jose Melo cut the lead to 2-1 at 38 minutes, the score at the break.

Kingston’s Calalin Lichioiu made it 3-1 at 49 minutes, to be followed by the first of two goals by the home side’s Jose Goncalves De Sousa. He struck at 52 minutes and following a number of attempts by North York to get on even terms, the North York midfielder scored his second at 72 minutes to tie the game 3-3. It was a picture goal which started on the right wing for a hard cross which De Sousa drove into the net from close range out of reach of Kingston goalkeeper Jaroslav Tesar.

Kingston came close to winning the game in the late stages when Mademba Ba, who came into the game as a substitute midway through the second half, hit the crossbar at 86 minutes after taking a pass from Surot in a breakaway, and Ba then hit the post with a header two minutes later.

I was a close game at the St. Joan of Arc ground in Maple for the second win in as many games for York Region Shooters.

Following a scoreless first half, York Region forward Nathan Smith broke the deadlock with a goal at 81 minutes, beating Burlington goalkeeper Vladimir Vujasinovic from 6 yards for a 1-0 score that held to the final whistle.

Brampton City Utd scored twice in the second half to defeat London City 3-2, while two other games played in the CSL First Division Saturday, Niagara United FC at home to Serbian White Eagles and Toronto Croatia vs. Waterloo, both ended in a 1-1 tie.

Following a scoreless first half at Kalar Park in Niagara Falls, Serbian White Eagles’ defender Andre Orlando collected a left wing cross to tap the ball in from close range past Niagara goalkeeper Matthew Greco. The opening goal came at 61 minutes.

Niagara forward Mohammed Mohammed tied the game nine minutes later, heading in to beat Serbian Eagles’ goalkeeper Stefan Avramovic and while Niagara pressed for a late winner, the game ended 1-1.

Toronto Croatia midfielder Anes Handunovic  opened the scoring for the home side at the Hershey Field in Mississauga, scoring at the 13^th minute mark following a free kick and saved by Waterloo goalkeeper Imad Hakura before Handunovic drove the ball into the net. It was 1-0 at the break.

Waterloo midfielder Namanja Simeunovic beat Toronto Croatia goalkeeper Antonio Ilic with a drive into the bottom right corner to score the tying goal at 71 minutes and it was 1-1 at the final whistle.

Brampton forward Leaford Allen opened the scoring at nine minutes in the game with London City at the Hellenic Community Centre in London, a 1-0 score at the interval,  and Gent Miftari tied the game 1-1 at the 63^rd minute mark.

Olamilekan Jhon Fatoki put the visitors into the lead at 77 minutes and Brampton increased the lead to 3-1 two minutes later on a goal by defender Reisandri Fernandez Cervantes.

London’s Steve Knezavic cut the lead to 3-2 at 84 minutes, the final score in favour of Brampton.

There was one game in the CSL Second Division Friday night when Toronto Croatia B and SC Waterloo B played to a 2-2 draw.

The first goal of the new CSL season was struck by Burlington SC forward Danilo Richards, who found the net shortly after 7 pm on May 23, just 8 minutes after kickoff while playing for the club’s reserve team. Richards, 25, a Kitchener native, scored against Toronto Croatia B at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga. Burlington SC B went on to secure an opening season 2-1 away victory over last season’s Second Division title winner.

London City’s Marin Vucemilovic Grgic scored the first goal in the CSL First Division from the penalty spot to open the scoring against Niagara United FC at the 25th minute mark on May 25. Vucemilovic Grgic moved into the local spotlight in 2012 by winning the league’s MVP while playing for Toronto Croatia, the year the prolific midfielder won the league scoring title with 16 goals.

Tony De Thomasis, owner of York Region Shooters, president of De Thomas Financial, a leading company in the financial planning industry, is featured in the June issue of Money Sense Magazine, one of Canada’s popular and trusted publications in the financial planning and investment field.

Few will be aware that Joe Scanlon, president and co-owner of the CSL’s Kingston FC is also the Professor Emeritus and Director of the Emergency Communications Research Unit at Carlton University in Ottawa. As such, Joe, or Professor Scanlon if you prefer, gave a lecture to the Kingston Historical Society on May 21 about Kingston’s experience on the deadly Spanish Flu during the years 1918 – 20. Joe Scanlon and Kingston FC co-owner Lorne Abugov continue to enjoy a strong relationship with the Kingston community since establishing the professional team in that picturesque community two years ago.