Triple the fun for Wizards
By TIM BAINES, Ottawa
Sun
The Ottawa Wizards completed the Canadian Professional Soccer
League's triple crown yesterday, defeating the upstart North York Astros 2-0
yesterday.
Robin Hart scored in the 45th minute and the Wizards got another
marker on an own-goal.
The Rogers Cup win adds to the Canada Cup and
regular-season title the Wizards captured earlier this season.
The
last-place Astros stunned both the Toronto Olympians and Toronto Croatia to
advance to the championship final.
GOLIATH WINS
"This game was billed as
David vs. Goliath," said Ottawa GM Jim Lianos.
"But at the end of the day,
sometimes Goliath wins.
"They took it to us for the first 15 minutes ...
maybe our guys didn't take this as seriously as they should have. But we had
worked too hard and too long to let this slip away."
Hart, a defender, put
the Wizards up 1-0 just before the half when he beat Astros goalkeeper Luciano
Miranda to a high cross 35 yards out.
Ottawa went up 2-0 in the 85th minute
when Slobodan Ilic scored into his own net.
AWARD: Wizards star Abraham
Osman won his second straight league MVP award.
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