St. Catharines Roma Wolves

A goal in each half for Brantford Galaxy earned a 2-0 victory over St. Catharines Wolves at Club Roma in St. Catharines, the only game in the Canadian Soccer League Wednesday night and the first mid-week encounter since the league kicked off its regular season May 5.

 

Brantford midfielder Chris Leko struck the opening goal at 26 minutes when he took a pass from Jacek (Jack) Przednowek to hit a low shot past St. Catharines goalkeeper Claudio Perri from close range, a 1-0 score at the break

 

It was Przednowek who scored the second Brantford goal after being set-up by forward Jeremy Shepherd. Przednowek found the net with a low shot from 15 yards at 63 minutes for a 2-0 score that was rarely threatened by the home side and as the game progressed to the final whistle, the outcome was never in doubt.

 

The Galaxy picked up their third win in five games to leap into the top half of the table, while St. Catharines have yet to pick-up a point with five defeats in as many games.

 

CSL games resume Friday with two games in the First Division when TFC Academy visit SC Toronto at Lamport Stadium and Mississauga Eagles FC are at home to league-leading and current CSL champions Toronto Croatia at the Hershey Centre, both games kickoff at 8 pm.

 

 

Montreal Impact Academy trounced St. Catharines Wolves 8-1, while SC Waterloo scored a 5-0 resounding victory over London City, Brantford Galaxy nipped TFC Academy 1-0 and Brampton City Utd held Toronto Croatia to a 1-1 tie, four games in the CSL Sunday.

 

 The  Impact Academy side quickly overcame an early 1-0 deficit to score eight against St. Catharines Wolves, inflicting an 8-1 trouncing in the opener of four games scheduled in the CSL Sunday.

Forward Calvin Rosario gave St. Catharines an early lead just two minutes into the game at the St. Jean de Vianney Stadium in Montreal when he scored from the penalty spot following a foul inside the 18 yard line called by referee Mathieu Bourdeau.

 

The visitors were reduced to 10 men when Johnny Maurizio was shown the red card following a challenge with excessive force which referee Bourdeau considered serious foul play.

 

Montreal Impact Academy tied the game 1-1 at 29 minutes when awarded a penalty and midfielder Wandrille Lefevre put the ball past St. Catharines goalkeeper Claudio Perri.

 

Defender Maxim Tissot put Montreal in front 2-1 at the 32^nd minute mark and found the net again three minutes later to put the home side 3-1 up, the score at the break.

 

Midfielder Zakaria Messoudi increased Montreal’s lead to 4-1 at 54 minutes and at the 75^th minute mark substitute Amine Meftouh increased the lead to 5-1 after entering the field in the second half.

The home side continued to attack the St. Catharines goal and at 77 minutes Lefevre struck his second and Montreal’s sixth for a 6-1 lead.

 

Forward Victor Ndiaye added a 7^th at 81 minutes and Alexander King entering as a substitute completed the scoring at 86 minutes for an 8-1 final score.

 

There was attractive soccer at Lions Park in Brantford where the result was in doubt until Galaxy forward Dave Simpson scored at the 86^th minute to give the home side a 1-0 victory over TFC Academy.

 

The goal came following a three-way passing play started by midfielder Niko Jelicic who crossed from the right wing to Logan Alexander who moved the ball to Simpson to score at 86 minutes.

 

Both teams had opportunities in the closing minutes, but the 1-0 score held until the final whistle.

 

SC Waterloo were very much on top in their game against London City, a 5-0 victory at the Seagram Stadium in Waterloo to record a second shutout following the 2-0 win over Windsor Stars on May 6.

 

Adis Hasecic opened the scoring at the 5^th minute mark when he found the net past London goalkeeper Zoran Pusica and midfielder Drazen Vukovic made it 2-0 four minutes later.

 

Hasecic scored a second goal at the 14^th minute mark to increase the lead to 3-0, the score at half-time.

 

Midfielder Haris Fazlagic made it 4-0 at 74 minutes and Vukovic struck his second to round out the scoring at 82 minutes for a 5-0 final.

 

Toronto Croatia midfielder Marin Vucernilovic Grgic opened the scoring to put Toronto Croatia in the lead over Brampton City Utd at Centennial Stadium – he sent a low drive to the right of Brampton goalkeeper Jason Lopez for a 1-0 Croatia lead at the 10 minute mark.

 

It was a hard-played close encounter throughout and looking like Croatia’s third early season win until Brampton drew level with a goal by midfielder Andy Garcia.  He took the rebound from a free kick to beat Croatia goalkeeper Panagiotis Koumoulas for the 1-1 draw.

 

Weekend summary:

 

Games in the CSL Friday:

 FIRST DIVISION

Serbian White Eagles 2, North York Astros 0

SC Toronto 4, Mississauga Eagles FC 1

Toronto Croatia 3, London City 1

 

Games in the CSL Saturday:

 FIRST DIVISION

Windsor Stars 5, Kingston FC 0

 SECOND DIVISION

SC Waterloo B 2, Niagara United B 1

SC Toronto B 3, .St. Catharines Wolves B 1

.Windsor Stars B 6, Kingston FC B 1

 

Games in the CSL Sunday:

FIRST DIVISION

Brantford Galaxy 1, TFC Academy 0

Montreal Impact Academy 8, St. Catharines Wolves 1

SC Waterloo 5, London City 0

Toronto Croatia 1 Brampton City Utd 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brantford Galaxy nudged closer to a playoff berth with a 3-2 victory over York Region Shooters, while St. Catharines Wolves with just a slim chance to make the top eight, defeated North York Astros 2-1, two games in the Canadian Soccer League Wednesday night.

 

The defending CSL champions struck early when forward Ranko Golijanin found the net after just two minutes at Lions Park in Brantford. The former FC Hercules of the Spanish first division striker collected a cross from Dalibor Mitrovic to make it 1-0.

 

Golijanin scored his second to make it 2-0 at 28 minutes, he took a pass from Sasa Vidovic to score from 15 yards. York Region Shooters reduced the lead to 2-1 when Kadian Leckie scored from the penalty spot at the 33^rd minute mark, the score at half time.

 

Mitrovic found the net past Shooters’ goalkeeper Camilo Benzi at 53 minutes for a 3-1 Brantford lead and Rick Titus, the York Region defender cut the lead to 3-2 at 88 minutes when he took the ball on the right of goal to beat Brantford ‘keeper Vladimir Markotic and the 3-2 score held to the final whistle.

 

It was an important win for the Galaxy with an improved 9-10-3 WLT record for 30 points. With four games remaining in the regular season, the champions are in ninth position in the First Division standings – the top eight earn a playoff berth.

 

Matthew Contino with two goals sparked St. Catharines Wolves to their home victory over still winless North York Astros at the Club Roma ground in St. Catharines, he found the net at 26 minutes following a defensive slip by the visitors and scored his second at 72 minutes when he closed in to beat Astros goalkeeper Damon Naghavi.

 

The two goals followed an opening goal by North York Astros, an own-goal when St. Catharines defender Geoff Attard put the ball into his own net following a goalmouth scramble from a corner kick.

 

St. Catharines’  Scott MacLennan was shown the red card by referee Steve Senderovich who judged the midfielder committed Violent Conduct in an altercation with Francisco Mendez of the Astros. The ejection occurred at the 82^nd minute mark and the game ended 2-1 in favour of the home side.

 

St. Catharines have 19 points from 21 games played with five games remaining.

St. Catharines Wolves won their first three games of the season, then went into a serious slump to play 14 games without a victory until Wednesday night when the Garden City team returned to hit a visiting London City side 5-1 at Club Roma in St. Catharines, the only game in the Canadian Soccer League.

 

Calvin Rosario got the home side off to a flying start with a goal in the first minute of play when he collected a rebound off team-mate Matthew Contino to put the ball past London goalkeeper Fabian Knezevic.

 

Contino struck the second goal at the 27 minute mark, scoring off a cross by Marc Stenel to make it 2-0 and forward Dana Heimbecker made it 3-0 for St. Catharines at 39 minutes, the score at half-time.

 

London bounced back with a goal at 65 minutes by Eris Tafaj for a 3-1 score, but Contino found the net again when a scored from the penalty spot at 70 minutes. The penalty was called by referee Geoff Gamble, who judged  London ‘keeper Knezevic brought down the home side’s Scott McLennan inside the box.

 

Knezevic was shown a red card for ‘denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity’, which brought in substitute goalkeeper Scott Chalmers for the remainder of the game.

 

Chalmers was beaten by a strike by midfielder Tony Mermigas at 83 minutes for a 5-1 final score.

Two goals by the CSL First Division leading scorer Stefan Vukovic played an important part in lifting TFC Academy to a 5-1 victory over St. Catharines Wolves in the only game played in the Canadian Soccer League Wednesday night.

 

Following a well-played scoreless first half, Vukovic opened the scoring at the 49^th minute mark and TFC midfielder Sergio Camargo made in 2-0 seven minutes later

 

Vukovic increased the lead to 3-0 at 61 minutes and Dimitri Omphroy scored a TFC Academy goal at the 69^th minute mark, deflecting a free kick past St. Catharines goalkeeper James Draper for a 4-0 lead.

 

The goals for Vukovic were his 11^th and 12^th of the season.

 

Academy defender Joshua Gross scored a fifth goal for the visitors at 85 minutes, a 5-0 score and Gross put the ball past his own goalkeeper, Angelo Cavelluzzo, to score an OG for St. Catharines and it was 5-1 at the final whistle.

 

The win gave TFC Academy their fourth win of the season for an improved 4-9-1 WLT record for 13 points, while St. Catharines have a 3-8-2 record for 11 points.

 

 

Capital City FC  stretched their unbeaten string to 11 games with a scoreless tie against York Region Shooters, while in one other game played in the CSL Sunday, seven goals were scored in the second half when Brantford Galaxy defeated St. Catharines Wolves, 5-3. A third game, Toronto Croatia vs. TFC Academy was postponed at the ground.

 

It was an even, well-played contest between two teams bidding for the top position in the standings, but a temperature of 36 degrees at ground level may have played a part in a limp performance by both sides in front of goal at the St. Joan of Arc ground in Maple.

 

The scoreless tie between York Region Shooters and Capital City means the Shooters trail league-leading Montreal Impact Academy by one point and the Ottawa team is one point behind York Region. Capital City FC, with 12 games played, have two games in hand over the top two.

 

It was a contrast at Lions Park in Brantford where the Galaxy scored five goals in the last 30 minutes of play to defeat St. Catharines.

 

St. Catharines forward Aaron Vanvelzen opened the scoring with a goal at 29 minutes, he found the net past Galaxy goalkeeper Vladimir Markotic from 15 yards for a 1-0 score at half-time.

 

The Garden City side went ahead 2-0 at 50 minutes on a goal by Matthew Cain, but Brantford reduced the lead at the 63^rd minute mark when Dalibor Mitrovic collected a clearance from his goalkeeper Markotic to score from 25 yards.

 

Brantford forward Ranko Golijanin evened the score at 2-2 just three minutes later and at 73 minutes referee Sylviu Petrescu pointed to the penalty spot when Golijanin was tripped in the box and Rade Novkovic found the net past Wolves’ goalkeeper Claudio Perri, a 3-2 Brantford lead.

 

Brantford’s Mitrovic scored his second goal when he picked up a rebound from an attempt by Nenad Begovic for a 4-2 score at 75 minutes.

 

St. Catharines struck their third goal at 88 minutes by midfielder Nicks Kinsi to make it 4-3 in favour of the home side and Brantford went further ahead on a goal by Stefan Dancetovic for a 5-3 score at the final whistle.

 

One other game scheduled for Sunday afternoon, Toronto Croatia vs. TFC Academy, was postponed and will be rescheduled.

 

The following games were played in the CSL second Division over the weekend:

 

SECOND DIVISION

Saturday:

TFC Academy II  5, Serbian White Eagles  B  0

York Region Shooters  B  2, North York Astros  B 2

Niagara United 2, SC Toronto B  2

Brampton City Utd   B  2, Toronto Croatia B  1

Sunday:

London City B 2, KW United FC 2

Mississauga Eagles FC  B  7, St. Catharines Wolves B  2

 

 

 

 

 

Mississauga Eagles FC midfielder Ivan Juric led his side with two second half goals to a 4-0 victory over St. Catharines Wolves at Club Roma, the only game in the Canadian Soccer League Wednesday.

 

The Mississauga team, from the Erin Mills Soccer Club in that community, looked in command early with a 1-0 lead just two minutes into the game when midfielder Jose Melo beat St. Catharines goalkeeper Claudio Perri with a free kick from 19 yards.

 

Tristan Scott increased the lead to 2-0 at 14 minutes, a drive that appeared to take a deflection on its way past Perri into the net, a 2-0 score at half-time.

 

Juric struck his first goal at 62 minutes, a shot that entered the lower right corner of the net and the midfielder scored his second just three minutes later for a 4-0 score that held to the final whistle.

 

Mississauga Eagles improve to a 6-6-1 WLT record for 19 pts, still in fifth position but closer to being in contention for a top of the table opportunity over the next few games.

 

St. Catharines Wolves remain in 10^th position in the standings with a 3-4-2 record for 11 points.

 

                                               CSL REF DOES WORLD CUP  SEMI-FINAL

 

CSL match official Carol Anne Chénard had a good game as the referee of the Women’s World Cup semi-final between

 

Japan and Sweden played at Frankfurt, Germany Wednesday, a game won by Japan by a 3-1 score.

 

 Chénard was in the middle of the Colombia vs. Sweden match on June 28, was the 4th Official for the Brazil vs. Norway clash

 

on July 3 and the 4th Official in the Japan vs. Germany quarter-final game at Wolfsburg July 9.

 

 Chénard gained her FIFA badge in 2006 and is the only Canadian appointed to officiate in the 2011 FIFA Women’s World

 

Cup. The appointment follows her selection last year when she was in the middle of the championship final of the FIFA U-20

 

Women’s World Cup Germany 2010.