July 13, 2008 CSL Week 9 Summary (from CSL media release)
SERBIAN WHITE EAGLES DEFEAT CROATIA IN SUNDAY ATTRACTION.......Italia Shooters nip Brampton Lions 1-0 and St. Catharines Wolves blank London City 2-0
2008-07-13
Serbian White Eagles may not have enjoyed most of the possession against Toronto Croatia at Lamport Stadium on Sunday afternoon, but they capitalized on their goalscoring opportunities to defeat their Mississauga-based rivals 2-0 in a game highlighted as the weekend attraction in the Canadian Soccer League. Toronto Italia increased their lead at the top of the International Division with a 1-0 victory over Brampton Lions at Maple, just north of Toronto and in the third Sunday encounter, St. Catharines Wolves enjoyed a 2-0 home win over London City. On Saturday night, Trois-Rivieres Attak continued their winning way with a 3-1 victory over North York Astros in a well-played, entertaining encounter at the University of Quebec Trois-Rivieres. The Quebec team stretched their unbeaten streak to 10 games, jumping to a 9-point lead in the National Division standings. The weather knocked out one other game scheduled in the Canadian Soccer League Saturday with the postponement of the Windsor Border Stars vs. TFC Academy game scheduled for Windsor Stadium, a 7 pm kickoff. Heavy rain rendered the surface unplayable and the game was called off shortly before noon that day. On Friday night, Portugal FC lost two players to red cards but still came up with an impressive 4-0 shutout victory over the visiting St. Catharines Wolves at Lamport Stadium and in a second game in the CSL, Windsor Border Stars were too much for the still winless London City, a 3-1 result at Cove Road in London.
Sasa Viciknez struck the opening goal for Serbia at the 37th minute mark on Sunday, heading in a cross for his 7th goal of the season and although Toronto Croatia appeared to have an edge on the play, Serbia went two-up at the 71st minute on a brilliant solo effort by Dragan Radovic. He beat two men and sidestepped another before slotting the ball past Croatia goalkeeper Roy Blanche. It was also Radovic's 7th of the season in the 2-0 win.
Midfielder Matthew Palleschi assured Italia Shooters of three points with the only goal of the game at 52 minutes against Brampton Lions at Maple. It was a well-struck free kick that earned the points for the former Shooters' player who attracted the attention of Montreal Impact of the United Soccer Leagues' First Division during the past two years.
Italia now have 22 points from a 7-3-1 record and continue to lead the International Division, while Brampton Lions are second in the National Division with a 4-4-3 record for 15 points.
St. Catharines Wolves picked up their third win of the season with a 2-0 shutout of London City at Club Roma in the third game on Sunday. Tony Marmigas scored with a shot from the left wing at 24 minutes to open the scoring and Arnaldo Magnotta made it 2-0 at 48 minutes.
Trois-Rivieres forward Jean-Louis Basse opened the scoring at 13 minutes against North York Astros and midfielder Christian Nunez made it 2-0 at the 45th minute mark.
Selvin Lammie scored for the Astros at 55 minutes and the North York team rallied during the second half to put the game very much in doubt until Attak forward Guillaume Heroux struck a high shot into the roof of the net and out of reach of Astros' goalkeeper Haidar Al-Shaibain The goal came at 75 minutes.
Trois-Rivieres Attak take an impressive 9-point lead at this mid point in the season with a 7-1-3 WLT record for 24 points, while the Astros have a 4-4-2 record for 14 points, both teams in the National Division.
Helio Pereira opened the scoring at 31 minutes for Portugal FC for a 1-0 score at the interval and 10 minutes later Portugal's Selmir Sehic was shown the red card for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Wigor Gomes made it 2-0 on a breakaway one minute after the interval and Pereira struck his second at 64 minutes for a 3-0 Portugal lead.
Kevin McIntosh scored Portugal's fourth goal at 73 minutes and at 88 minutes the International Division side were reduced to 9 men when Sebastian Busto was ordered to the dressing room after being shown a red card following a harsh challenge.
Portugal improve to 4-3-2 WLT for 14 points, tied for third place in the standings with Serbian White Eagles, while St. Catharines now have a 2-6-1 record for 7 points in the National Division.
Midfielder Danny Dragol made it 1-0 for at 15 minutes for Windsor Border Stars in their game with London City, but the home side tied the score 1-1 on a goal by Andrew Loague six minutes later. Windsor goalkeeper Anthony Santilli was shown the red card at 36 minutes after handling the ball outside of the penalty box.
Dragol struck his second goal at 45 minutes or a 2-1 Windsor lead and the border team lost a second player when defender Dan Trosper took a second yellow card and was ordered to the dressing room.
Erik Elmauer assured Border Stars of the victory, scoring his team's third goal at 90 minutes, a 3-1 final.
Windsor's second game over the weekend, at home to TFC Academy on Saturday, was postponed mid Saturday morning due to the wet condition of the field at Windsor Stadium.
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