August 26, 2005 CPSL details of today's game (from CPSL website)
CROATIA KEEPS ROLLING ALONG WHILE HAMILTON THUNDER JUMP ON TOP
Friday - August 26, 2005
Hamilton Thunder jumped to the top of the Western Conference standings with a 4-0 shutout over a younger and struggling Durham Storm at Oshawa Civic Stadium Friday, while Toronto Croatia came up with another strong performance to defeat St. Catharines Wolves at Streetsville Memorial Park and stay on top in the east.
In two other games played in the Canadian Professional Soccer League, London City went down at home by a 4-1 score, a game in which veteran forward Radek Papiez scored a natural hat-trick for the border team, and Toronto Supra failed again to get untracked and were held to a 2-2 tie on their Brockton Stadium home ground by Brampton Stallions.Goran Lezarevski struck twice for Hamilton Thunder, at 21 and 53 minutes, while Florian Kohler (42 minutes) and Kadian Lecky (63 minutes) also beat Durham goalkeeper Craig Williams for the 4-0 shutout.
Hamilton improves to a 7-3-6 WLT record for 27 points, that's two up on Oakville Blue Devils, while Durham Storm, playing a number of the under 21 squad, lost their 11th of 13.
Toronto Croatia always appeared to have an edge over the visiting St. Catharines and it was Hayden Fitzwilliams who opened the scoring for the winners at just four minutes of play.
Forward Peter Curic scored the second Croatia goal in the second half and the win puts the Mississauga-based Croatia in a strong position with a 9-1-4 record for 31 points, four ahead of second place team Vaughan Shooters in the Eastern Conference.
Radek Papiez, now 32, was the hero for Border Stars with three goals at 15, 52 and 65 minutes to hand London City a serious set-back in their bid for a place in the playoff top three in the Western Conference. Aaron Byrd had opened the scoring for Border Stars at the 12th minute and Dennis Peeters scored the lone London goal at 86 minutes. London midfielder Keith Andrew drove a penalty kick wide of the net at the 89th minute.
London City drop to fourth in the Western Conference standings as a result of the loss, they have a 5-9-4 record while Border Starshave a 5-9-1 record for 16 points and still at the foot of the standings.
Toronto Supra's Danny Amaral scored the equalizer with just three minutes to the final whistle to give his team a point in the 2-2 tie with Brampton. Kevin McIntosh scored twice for the Stallions, at 29 and 77 minutes and Edward Franjich scored the other Supra goal at 66 minutes.
Toronto Supra go to the fourth position in the east with a 3-5-6 record, while Brampton Stallions are at 4-4-7 for third position in the west.
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