Date: 08-18-94 (21:06)              Number: 27073 of 27302 (Refer# NONE)
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From: ROBIN GLOVER
Subj: APSL TORONTO VS VANCOUVER
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Results of the APSL game Wednesday August 17, 1994 at Centennial Stadium
between the Toronto Rockets and the Vancouver 86ers.

                        Vancouver 86ers (red socks,shirts, black shorts,
white numbers)
                        1 Rob Merkl
19 Todd Rattee  16 Doug McKinty  5 Steve MacDonald  7 Marcus Tremarco
15 Doug Muirhead  12 Scott Macey  20 Guido Titotto  4 Mike Dodd
                10 Domenic Mobilio  14 Dale Mitchell

                        Toronto Rockets (blue socks,shorts,shirts, white
numbers)
                        1 Pat Onstad
13 Patrick Sullivan  5 Jens Kraemer  4 Peter Sarantopoulos 6 Dino Lopez
14 Joseph Majcher  17 Velimir Crljen  10 Tony Nocita  2 Carl Fletcher
                9 Ivica Raquz  20 Gino DiFlorio

ref Steve Mortimer, linesmen Hepworth and Black, 4th Comacho

1st half
10 min Titotto beats defender but hits post from 7 yards.
36 min Van GOAL  Mitchell kicks a banana shot catching the far corner
from about 12 yards after 7 yard pass from Mitchell across crease.
Mitchell had just received 50 yard quick free kick from 86er side of
center from McKinty(?).

summary
A few good chances for each team but Vancouver had the
better ones.

2nd half
Van sub  21 Carl Valentine (who doubles as head coach and assistant GM)
replaces Macey at halftime.  Macey had gone for a header at 42 min and
crashed against Rocket goalie Onstad.  Macey was down for quite awhile
with a head injury and the 86ers played the last few minutes of the half
shorthanded.  Macey watched the rest of the game from the bench.
Van sub  6 Steve Millar replaces Mobilio at halftime. Defender Millar
did play Mobilio's forward position.
63 min Tor sub  8 Lucin Ianiero replaces Crljen.
77 min Tor sub  7 Billy Dalombo replaces Sullivan.
89 min Van yellow card  Millar for holding Majcher at midfield. Only
card of the night.

Summary  Toronto had more chances this half but Vancouver always looked
ready for the counterattack.
Raguz had Rockets best chance of the night but his 10 yard blast hit
teammate DiFlorio's leg about 5 yards from net and bounced away.

Vancouver brought a pretty narrow reserve bench for the game.  There
looked like there was no back up goalie.  Merkl played his first game of
the year in net because of the red carded Paul Dolan.  I noticed in the
standings that forward John Catliff has played 69 min in one appearance
in the 86er net so they have been burned before.

Attendance was not announced but I'd estimate there were about 1100
people.  ie almost as many as the Friday game against Fort Lauderdale
but a lot less kids.
Gino DiFlorio was introduced as the Sunshine Boy in todays paper but I
didn't get a copy to check it out.  At least it's publicity!
Game hilights were broadcast on Channel 47 in Italian on their
sportsnews tonight (Thursday).  That's a good sign as Telesera is only
carried Monday to Fridays so the Rocket Friday hilights are too stale to
air three nights later.

This game will be broadcast on Rogers Cable 10 Monday at 7pm and
Wednesday at 9pm.

Final score

Vancouver 86ers  1  (good for 7 points, 6 to win and 1 for the goal)

Toronto Rockets  0  (no points for tonight).

Rockets drop to last as Fort Lauderdale Strikers scored one goal, good
for one point, in their loss to Montreal tonight.

Next home game is Wednesday August 31st against Vancouver 86ers (again)
NOT the Strikers as listed.  Without the Houston franchise there have
been a few rescheduled games.

Rocket Robin

robin.glover@canrem.com

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