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Result of the Friday May 23rd, 2008 CSL game between the Toronto FC Academy and St Catharines Wolves played at Lamport Stadium in Toronto at 8:00pm.

TFC Academy (all red, white numbers)

........................50 Jarret Humphreys
40 Daniel DiBiagio...35 Shawn Kodejs...47 Daniel Tannous...43 Domenic Roberts (cpt)
28 Derek Robinson...38 Erick Olazabal...36 Latwayne Anderson...31 Ashtone Morgan
.................49 Viktor Anastasov...39 Adrian Pena

Subs:...25 Soitiri Varlokostas (gk)...29 Eros Olazabal...33 Gino Mauro...34 Max Marsh...37 Jeremy Halliday...46 Donavan Wilson
team officials:...head coach Jason Bent

St Catharines Roma Wolves (black socks, shorts, and numbers, sky blue shirts)

.........................1 Claudio Perri (cpt)
.............4 Matthew Waddington...14 Geoffrey Attard...5 Joe Conte
7 Danniel Gallagher...8 Arnaldo Magnotta...15 Tony Mermigas...18 Matt Cain...6 Rudy Pikuzinsky
.................9 Antonio Stranges...10 Carlo Arghittu

Subs:...2 Simon Murphy...16 Scott MacLennan (mid)...17 Brandon Jones (def)...19 Pablo Nieves (mid)...20 Phillip Hull (mid)
team officials:...head coach James McGillivray...assistant coach Stacey Gough...manager Armand DiFruscio...physio Sonio Lepera Game officials:...referee Mickey Donev...referee's assistants manuel Orallano and Jeff Fernall...fourth official Alex Hearn...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)

1st Half:...starts 8:04pm...TFCA defend north goal on this cool evening...As there is no working scoreboard, all times are converted from my wristwatch.
1 min...W goalie shanks through-ball clearance. TFCA Robinson blasts 25 yard shot from right well over net.
7 min...W YELLOW card...Gallagher for dissent at center line.
9 min...W Gallagher freekick from 25 yards on extreme right is knocked wide of net.
10 min...W Gallagher cornerkick from right is curved behind net.
11 min...TFCA goalie charges out of box to clear through ball from W Stranges for a throw-in.
11 min...W Gallagher recrosses cornerkick from right and W Stranges on left heads 5 yarder wide left of net.
15 min...W Waddington freekick from 40 yards has TFCA defender block the ball and stop the W forwards getting to it.
16 min...TFCA Anastasov on scramble in the W box kicks 10 yarder that goalie blocks at 6 yards.
18 min...W goalie charges to left to grab through ball bounced into box.
19 min...W Cain heads ball from right end line from 5 yards away that goalie catches.
20 min...TFCA DiBiagio 40 yard freekick from right has TFCA player head ball over net from 10 yards with no offside flag being raised.
22 min...W Stranges pushes ball too far ahead for W Cain to keep ball in play and ball rolls over right endline.
23 min...W Attard heads ball away on TFCA player's cross from left side of box.
24 min...W Gallagher rush on right and bounces cross to goalie.
25 min...TFCA Roberts 25 yard freekick from left is well high and wide right of net.
26 min...TFCA Pena rolls cross into W box and W Attard clears.
27 min...TFCA Kodejs cross from 25 yards on right is caught by goalie.
28 min...TFCA Roberts 25 yard cross is caught by leaping goalie.
31 min...W Stranges 30 yard shot is wide left.
33 min...TFCA Morgan rolls 25 yard shot to goalie on scuffed shot.
36 min...W Stranges intercepts clearance, passes back to W Arghittu who arcs 30 yard shot just high of top right corner of empty net.
37 min...W Arghittu is injured at TFCA 20 yard sideline.
43 min...W Stranges eludes three guys while he cuts up middle but his last pass is blocked.
44 min...TFCA Erick Olazabal 40 yard shot up middle bounces to goalie.
46 min...W Magnotta 30 yard shot up middle is well high and wide left of net that ends W prolonged pressure.
47 min...W Waddington 75 yard freekick from left has goalie slips but he's up in time to catch ball just inside box.
47 min...half ends 8:51pm.

2nd Half:...starts 9:08pm.
halftime subs:...W Murphy replaces Cain.
..............TFCA Eros Olazabal replaces Morgan.
..............TFCA Wilson replaces Pena.
46 min...W Magnotta is pushed pass along 18 yard line and blasts shot over net.
49 min...W Gallagher 40 yard freekick from right has leaping defender head ball away.
51 min...TFCA Roberts 35 yard freekick from left has defender block.
52 min...TFCA Roberts 30 yard cross has goalie catch.
53 min...TFCA Anastasov gets pass on run and chips ball into box from 25 yards.
55 min...W Gallagher rush on right crosses along end line and defender on left side of goal heads ball away.
61 min...TFCA sub...Halliday replaces Anastasov.
62 min...W Murphy cross from right end line is just behind net.
63 min...TFCA YELLOW card...Erick Olazabal for tackle. TFCA DiBiagio was injured.
64 min...W Gallagher 30 yard chip from right is just right of net.
64 min...W McIntosh replaces Arghittu.
66 min...TFCA Erick Olazabal cornerkick. TFCA Tannous headed 12 yarder that goalie palms over net while falling backwards.
68 min…Wolves Graeme McIntosh GOAL…Wolves Antonio Stranges took 35 yard freekick up the middle of the field and his shot is stopped in the player wall. Stranges gets to rebound and rushes up right wing beating a defender and cutting in a low cross from 20 yards. McIntosh is already knocked down in the box but gets a foot in to deflect ball in from 1 yards shot to right corner of the net beyond the goalie who was also down on the play. The goalie Jarret Humphreys was injured on the play and had to be replaced by Soitiri Variokostas before the game resumes.
71 min...W sub...MacLennan replaces Pikuzinsky.
72 min...TFCA sub...Marsh replaces Robinson.
.............TFCA sub...Variokostas replaces injured Humphreys in goal before play resumes.
76 min...TFCA Erick Olazabal 30 yard freekick from left is caught by leaping goalie although player bumps him after catch.
78 min...TFCA Erick Olazabal 28 yard shot from left is wide right of net.
81 min...TFCA Erick Olazabal cornerkick from right has ball knocked away with header on edge of box.
82 min...TFCA Erick Olazabal cross from 25 yards has TFCA player miss header at 10 yards.
83 min...W Gallagher cross from right is into box has play whistled down.
85 min...W YELLOW card...Murphy earns it for knees up on TFCA Roberts.
86 min...W sub...Nieves replaces Murphy.
87 min...TFCA Roberts 55 yard freekick from left is caught by goalie.
88 min...TFCA sub...Mauro replaces Anderson.
89 min...TFCA player cross from right has goalie catch then he's upended by another TFCA player but play is whistled down.
91 min...W YELLOW card...Mermigas for pushing.
.............TFCA YELLOW card...Halliday for pushing.
93 min...TFCA Roberts 40 yard freekici has defender head ball away on edge of box.
95 min...game ends 9:58pm.

Final Score:……Toronto FC Academy……..0……………St Catharines Wolves……..1………..

Attendance was about 200 people on this cool evening.

The scoreboard isn’t working and the field looked almost as dark as last week even through this time I didn’t notice any burnouts at least on the east side.

Claudio Perri earned the shutout for the Wolves. He had two key saves; one was at 16 minutes when TFC Viktor Anastasov got away a 10 yard shot in a scramble in the box that the goalie blocked at 6 yards. The other was at 66 minutes when TFCA Erick Olazabal took a cornerkick from the left and TFCA Daniel Tannous headed a ball from 12 yards that Perri had to palm over the net while falling backwards. Otherwise his night was mostly spent catching crosses into the box. Olazabal took most of the cornerkicks and freekicks for TFCA and had the best shots on net.

Wolves chances were limited to off target shots and long shots that often found had defenders knock away before even reaching the goalie.

Wolves had better ball possession against TFCA than last week’s opponents but TFCA look the best when they counterattack and can start a quick breakout.

Referee Mickey Donev had to keep control over this rough game but only gave out a few cards.

I asked TFCA coach Jason Bent after the game of how bad the injury was to goalie Jarret Humphreys but he said it was too soon to say. I heard a rumour soon after the injury that he had a broken rib.

Next TFC Academy home game will be Friday May 30th at 8:00pm against Italia Shooters. Their next game will be this Sunday against North York Astros at 3:00pm at Esther Shiner Stadium in North York.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca


TFC Academy starters


Wolves starters


Wolves kick off to start game


King Street West is on the left beyond the endzone in the north.

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