PICTURE: A new season Scarborough SC were impressive with 6-1 victory over visiting Toronto Tigers
FC Vorkuta and Scarborough SC continued their winning way of 2020 with victories in the opening games of the ProSound Cup played at Centennial Stadium in Toronto’s west end Saturday.
Scarborough defeated Toronto Tigers 6-1, which was followed by a 2-0 victory for Vorkuta over BGHC 1in the opening day of the new season. BGHC 1 is a new entry in the Canadian Soccer League following a merger between Brantford Galaxy and Hamilton City 1.
A third game in the cup tournament between Serbian White Eagles and Atletico Sporting Toronto in the 3-game event for the semi-professional CSL was postponed following a severe thunderstorm which flooded the playing surface.
Midfielder Jordan Web opened the scoring for Scarborough at 21 minutes, taking a pass from the right wing to find the net out of reach of Tigers’ goalkeeper Henrique Soler. Midfielder Camal Reid struck twice, Web added a second, forward Neven Radakovic scored and Hassan Abdul struck the sixth goal to complete the scoring for the home side.
Egrinaldo Tavares scored a late consolation goal for Toronto Tigers in a game the visitors showed strong midfield play in the first half, with Scarborough eventually leading 3-0 at the interval and in the second half showing signs of a side that won the First Division title in 2020 and were finalists in the CSL championship.
Tigers’ Raphael Silva commented “While disappointed with the score we are not discouraged, it’s the opening game and there is much further to go in our attempt to win the cup.”
Midfielder Serdii Ivlien opened the scoring for Vorkuta at 36 minutes for a 1-0 lead at the break in the game against BGHC 1. Prolific forward Mykola Temniuk, who led the CSL First Division scoring in 2019, made it 2-0 at 63 minutes, the score at the final whistle.
A re-scheduled Serbian White Eagles vs Atletico Sporting Toronto postponed game is expected to be announced Monday, August 30.
FC Vorkuta will play its next game away to Atletico Sporting Toronto for the opening game of three at Centennial Stadium on Saturday, September 4, a 3 pm kickoff, to be followed by Scarborough SC vs Serbian White Eagles at 5 pm and Euru Academy hosting BGHC 1 at 7 pm.
The opening game for St. Catharines Hrvat is on Friday, September 10 against Toronto Tigers, a 7.45 pm kickoff at Centennial Stadium.