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Result and details of the Friday October 20, 2017 League 1 Ontario game between
Woodbridge Strikers and Oakville Blue Devils played at the Ontario Soccer Centre in Vaughan at 7:30pm.
This game involves the winner of the Eastern Conference Woodbridge Strikers against the winner of the
Western Conference Oakville Blue Devils. Tonight's winner is considered champion of League 1 Ontario
and also the winner gains entry into the 2018 Canadian Championship.
Woodbridge Strikers (all white, blue numbers)
.............1 Quillan Roberts
......2 Quante Abbott-Hill-Smith...3 Kyle Watson...22 Michael Krzeminski
11 Stephen Almeida...8 Oscar Cordon...7 Dylan Carreiro (cpt)...6 Joshua Paredes-Procter
......18 Marcos Nunes...10 Christian Cavallini...17 Emmanuel Issac
Subs:...12 Michael Scavone (gk)...5 Michael Fayehun...9 Damion Graham...15 James Baker
...16 Mikateko Zwane...23 Luca Baldassarre...24 Isaah Johnston
team offcials:...team head coach Peter Pinizzotto...assistant coach Marco Reda...manager John Scarlato
...equipment manager Amedeo Pellegrino...therapist Justin Miranda
Oakville Blue Devils (all navy, white numbers)
...............27 Matt George
29 Brandon Duarte...6 Victor Gallo...5 Julian Connor McNamara...22 Al James
.......14 Mikeal Taylor McNamara (cpt)...8 Julian Hernandez...21 Hitesh Joshi
.......9 Filipe Vilela...23 Anthony Novak...13 Mathew Santos
Subs:...26 Daniel Voci (gk)...10 Braden Culver...15 Anthony Doran...16 Khody Ellis
...18 Christian Young...24 Christian Kusiewicz...25 Stephen Ademolu
team officials:...team head coach Duncan Wilde...assstant coaches Billy Steele and Glenn McNamara
...manager Kim Ashton
Game offcials:...referee Fabrizio Stasolla...referee's assistants Filip Dujic and Jason Olinski
...fourth official Kuizan Weekes...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)
1st Half:...game starts 7:34pm. WS defends south end on this mild night with no wind. Julian de Guzman
was out for the coin toss.
2 min...WS Paredes-Procter 30 yard freekick from right has goalie step right to palm ball over end line.
3 min...WS player's cornerkick from left has defender on left head ball away.
6 min...WS Nunes is called for offside at OBD 28 yard line.
7 min...OBD Santos rolls cross from 20 yards along riight end line iis cleared for throw-in.
8 min...OBD Taylor McNamara cornerkick from right is over player in box and OBD Vilela cross chip from left
has goalie catch in crowd of players.
9 min...OBD Santos rolls cross from 20 yards on left and defender clears from box.
10 min...Woodbridge Marcos Nunes GOAL...OBD Taylor McNamara chips ball from 25 yards down middle
over players in box which WS goalie Quillan Roberts catches on bounce at 8 yards. Roberts steps forward
and punts ball downfield from edge of box and it bounces at OBD 40 yard line and Nunes has cut behind
defenders Connor McNamara and Victor Gallo who whiffs on ball at 25 yards and when they can't control
it dribbles in from 22 yards and shoots low 15 yarder up middle into left corner of net past diving
OBD goalie Matt George.
12 min...OBD Santos shoots 22 yarder just wde right when centered ball.
14 min...WS Carreiro cornerkick from left has OBD Vilela head ball right for throw-in.
15 min...WS Paredes-Procter 28 yard freekick from far right is caught by goalie.
16 min...WS Carreiro 35 yard freekick from left has goalie bat forward. A WS player's shot is blocked
at 25 yards.
18 min...OBD Santos cuts around defender twice on end line to take 20 yard cross that goalie catches.
19 min...WS Nunes gets pass on right and blasts 15 yard shot that goalie bats down and picks up.
The scoreboard clock has broken and will be off the rest of the game.
22 min...OBD Vilela receives long crossed pass from right all alone at 12 yards on left and he blasts low shot
around defender that diving goalie catches.
23 min...WS Abbott-Hill-Smith slides to give up cornerkick to look in box.
23 min...OBD Taylor McNamara cornerkick from right drifts behind net.
24 min...OBD James 45 yard cross from left has goale catch in front of OBD player at 8 yards.
25 min...WS goalie beats OBD Santos to top left of box to pick up ball.
26 min...WS Abbott-Hill-Smith sldes to deflect shot wide left. He's injured on play at 7 yard line.
28 min...OBD Taylor McNamara cornerkick from left has defender head ball away. OBD Santos shot from 25 yard skies
and lands on top of net.
30 min...WS Carreiro 28 yard shot from left is wide right.
30 min...OBD Joshi 30 yard shot from left is tipped forward at 18 yards and goalie catches.
31 min...WS Krzeminski is injured at OBD 50 yard line.
32 min...OBD Novak cross from 20 yards near left end line has defender clear at 8 yards along end line.
34 min...OBD Taylor McNamara 25 yard freekick from far left has defender head away.
35 min...WS Nunes receives quick freekick pass and turns at 20 yards and rolls to right corner from middle
that goalie stops.
36 min...OBD Joshi back into OBD box to break up play and start OBD breakout rush.
39 min...OBD Santos is checked off ball on right side of box.
39 min...OBD Taylor McNamara rolls ball forward and OBD Santos cross is already behind end line but goalie
catches anyway.
41 min...OBD Joshi long throw-in from left corner. OBD Novak called for hand-ball at 8 yards.
44 min...WS Cavallini cross from right after run to 20 yards has defender head away.
46 min...WS Krzeminski rush on left cutting towards goal and wins cornerkick on deflection.
46 min...WS Carreiro cornerkick from left has WS Watson twist cornerkick that goalie catches on bounce.
48 min...WS Almeida finishes pressure wth 22 yard shot from wide right misses top right corner. WS player had
taken shot from right is only partially cleared.
49 min...OBD Hernandez shoots 30 yard blast up middle rising over bar.
49 min...half ends 8:23pm.
Halftime Entertainment: There's a t-shirt toss of League 1 Ontario logo start. Then there's a Peel Police
towel toss. Those police could throw small towels better than Donald Trump threw the packs of paper towels to the
crowds in the Puerto Rica hurricane survivors.
2nd Half:...starts 8:40pm.
halftime subs:...OBD Ellis replaces Santos.
................OBD Ademolu replaces Novak.
46 min...WS Cavallini cuts n from left but runs ball over end line.
48 min...WS Paredes-Procter 30 yard freekick from far right has defender clear.
50 min...OBD Hernandez 30 yard freekick from far right has defender clear.
53 min...OBD Ellis shoots 18 yarder along right end line through 6 yard box unplayed.
54 min...OBD sub...Culver replaces injured Hernandez.
54 min...OBD Taylor McNamara 35 yard freekick from left has defender head away at 15 yards.
55 min...OBD YELLOW card...James earns it for sliding tackle on WS player at 22 yards on far right.
56 min...WS Carreiro 30 yard freekick from left bends between players wide right for goalkick.
57 min...WS goalie is out to 20 yards to beat OBD Ellis to through ball and boots away.
58 min...OBD Gallo 28 yard freekick from right has defender kick ball away.
59 min...OBD Ellis low cross from 20 yards to OBD Vilela to blast shot off defender then shoots
rebound over net wide right.
60 min...Oakville Brandon Duarte GOAL...OBD goalie Matt George receives defender's pass back wide
left of net and blasts high clearance from own 5 yard line downfield and OBD Stephen Ademolu flicks header
forward from WS 40 yard line behind defender also jumping for ball. OBD Filipe Vilela cuts over from middle
to right to get to bouncer at 25 yard line. He dribbles forward to right edge of box and sends low cross
along 6 yard box a step ahead of charging OBD player in middle but Duarte is unmarked and charges to edge
of 6 yard box in line with left post and slides to connect a roller past sliding goalie Quillan Roberts
at 3 yards and nto right corner of net.
60 min...WS sub...Fayehun replaces injured Krzeminski who had cramped up at halfway line.
61 min...OBD Taylor McNamara 35 yard freekick from left has defender head away.
62 min...WS Carreiro rolls pass forward and goalie beats WS player to through ball.
64 min...WS goalie stops low 22 yard shot from left.
65 min...WS Nunes 25 yard shot from right is low and just wide left.
67 min...OBD Gallo long throw-in from right has defender head away. OBD Connor McNamara suffers head injury.
70 min...OBD YELLOW card...Taylor McNamara earns it for tripping up WS Nunes.
71 min...WS Paredes-Procter take low freekick from 22 yards that's cleared in box.
72 min...WS YELLOW card...Cordon earns it for trip on OBD player at center line.
73 min...OBD Paredes-Procter 55 yard freekick is cleared in WS box.
74 min...OBD Connor McNamara 60 yard freeekick has ball cleared just inside box.
75 min...OBD Gallo 50 yard cross from rght has OBD player nod 12 yard header from left.
77 min...A WS player crosses through the 6 yard box but ball was unplayed.
79 min...OBD RED cards to two backup players*...There's a dustup in the OBD end when WS are not awarded
a Penalty kick. Referee Fabrizio Stasolla gives out Yellows to WS Kyle Watson and OBD Brandon Duarte for their
part in the play. He sees two OBD players in pinnies (or had a WS player point them out) who had come around from
behind the OBD net—players are supposed to warm up on the side of the field—and sent them off. [*another report said
these players were Anthony Doran and Christian Kusiewicz].
80 min...WS sub...Johnston replaces Cavallini before play resumes.
81 min...OBD Vilela run down middle is chased by four guys and wins cornerkick.
82 min...OBD Taylor McNamara cornerkick from left has OBD Ademolu flick header across box
and cleared on right.
84 min...WS Paredes-Procter is tapped back ball and 30 yard blast down middle just high and wide
right of top corner.
85 min...OBD Gallo long throw-in from right and has ball cleared but he wins cornerkick on cross deflection.
86 min...OBD Taylor McNamara cornerkick from right has defender clear on right and start fast break out.
87 min...WS Carreiro cuts into box from left and cuts 20 yard shot just wide left. WS Carreiro is injured
on the play twisting leg.
88 min...WS sub...Baldassarre replaces Nunes.
90 min...OBD Ellis can't win Penalty kick as he twists around just inside box.
90 min...WS Johnston cuts in from left but is checked off ball at 15 yards.
91 min...OBD Ademolu gets to bouncer and 15 yard shot is caught by goalie.
92 min...OBD Duarte is injured on WS box but play carries on upfield.
94 min...WS goalie to top of box to blast ball off OBD Ademolu deflecting for throw-in.
95 min...OBD Taylor McNamara 28 yard shot from right is wide after short freekick with OBD Connor McNamara
award freekick crosses is cleared on left side of box.
97 min...WS YELLOW card...Abbott-Hill-Smith earns it for complaining about OBD Vilela being awarded a freekick
on his tackle at center line.
98 min...OBD Ademolu wins freekick on right endline on edge of box wth battle with WS Abbott-Smith-Smith.
99 min...OBD Taylor McNamara freekick on right is low and defender clears.
99 min...WS Carreiro pass to WS Issac but is broken up in box.
99 min...WS RED card...The referee orders off a WS backup player* who had stepped
on the field to argue a play. [*another report listed the player as back-up goalie as Michael Scavone].
99 min...regulation time ends at 9:32pm with the score tied 1-1. There is no extra time and
so the game goes straight to Penalty kicks.
Penalty kicks: 1 OBD Filipe Vilela GOAL...blasts low to left as goalie dives right. 1 WS Emmanuel Issac GOAL...shot low to right as goalie dove to left. 2 OBD Victor Gallo shoots low and towards right and goalie dives right and bats ball away. 2 WS Luca Baldassarre GOAL...shoots low to right as goalie slides to left. 3 OBD Taylor McNamara GOAL...shoots low to right as goalie slides to left. 3 WS Michael Fayehun blasts shot well over net as goalie slumps to left. 4 OBD Stephen Ademolu GOAL...shoots to top right corner over goalie who dove to right. 4 WS Joshua Paredes-Procter shot to low left and goalie dives to left to bat ball away. 5 OBD Braden Culver GOAL...rolls shot to right corner of net as goalie slides to left.
Final Score:...Woodbridge Strikers...1...Oakville Blue Devils...1...
Oakville wins Penalty shootout 4-2.
* Some media reports/tweets have the shootout score as 4-3 but WS did not get a fifth round shot.
Attendance was about 1200 people with a large contingient of Oakville fans including their youth teams. The grounds are only about the width of three football fields from Vaughan Grove, the home of Woodbridge Strikers, which is diagonally across from here so they were going to get a large turnout. Last Saturday night, Toronto FC II of the USL had their home finale here and drew 1119 but that was greatly exagerated because of a non-stop hard rainstorm that night that maybe 60% showed up. Last Saturday night was originally supposed to have been the L1O Championship L1O chair Dino Rossi answere me a few weeks ago but TFC II bumped them back in March because of their agreement with Ontario Soccer Centre. Now TFC II repays the OSC by moving next year to hold their games at Lamport Stadium and BMO Field. Tonight's weather by contrast was pleasant with windbreakers being enough to keep warm this late in October. There may be another few fans show up Saturday night thanks to Duane Rollins on his Two Solitudes podcast giving the wrong date on his Thursday show. (I tweeted him in time for his Friday morning show but he didn't mention the game at all). USL Ottawa Fury coach Julian de Guzman was the celebrity brought in for the coin toss. I hadn't thought of it at game time but there is a good chance that tonight's winner will play Ottawa in the opening round of the Canadian Championship next year. Oakville and their PLSQ champion counterpart AS Blainville will NOT face each other in the first round but one will face Ottawa and the other will face FC Edmonton of NASL. The winners will then play each other and the next round the winner of that will join the MLS teams in the semi-finals. The start of the Canadian Championship will be held in May from what I've heard which shouldn't cause a problem as the L1O season will be into its first month by then. Since these games are usually played in midweek it will mean Oakville won't play at their usual home Sheridan College because there are no stadium lights. Rumour has it they will be trying to arrange to play at Tim Horton's Field in Hamilton. Will there be a sponsor or will they have to raise funds to fly to Edmonton if that's the team they draw? A joke going around after the game was 'how about a car wash?'. Referee Fabrizio Stasollo was also the referee in last Saturday's USL game. Tonight he gave out three Yellow cards to each team and didn't fall for any of the soft Penalty kick pleas from either team. The game was 'spirited' with lots of close checking and injuries to both teams. OBD goalie Matt George was announced as the game's MVP. Well that was obvious with making the huge save in the Penalty shootout but he made some other key saves. George played for Woodbridge for the last few years before this season. It was his decision to switch teams to OBD before the season started as he lives a lot closer to Oakville than the drives to Woodbridge (he answered my question earlier this season). That was months before the Strikers signed Quillan Roberts dropped by Toronto FC to replace him. It's almost like both regulation time goals were rehearsed as just a moment before each goal an almost identical play was run. WS goalie Quillan Roberts punted a ball upfield at 9 minutes and only because it turned into a 1 v 4 was the Strikers player not able to get through and at 59 minutes OBD Khody Ellis sent in a low cross from 20 yards on the right that OBD Felipe Vilela blasted from 10 yards down the middle that was blocked by a defender and he shot a rebound high and wide right. A change at halftime brought in Khody Ellis and Stephen Ademolu up front for Oakville replacing Mathew Santos and Anthony Novak. Their attack immediately became more dangerous. A scoreboard problem meant there was no timer from the twenty minute mark on so the PA guy would announce the time in five or ten minute intervals. All times after that in my report are from my wristwatch but I'll insist that the OBD goal was at 60 minutes (not 66') and the second half went on until 99 minutes (seven minutes announced injury time with another injury during that time). I noticed standing behind me during the game Canadian Men's National team coach Octavio Zambrano. He has praised this league in the past. I was boasting to him that this was my sixty-third L1O game this year when he asked me about OBD's #10. Braden Culver. Ooh I don't know too much about him. Zambrano called him 'interesting'. He'd subbed in at 54 minutes. (Zambrano's comments were well before he took the winning Penalty kick). After the game I said to Culver that Zambrano was interested in him but by then the coach was gone. I mentioned it to the OBD media guy and head coach Duncan Wilde so he could forward info to Zambrano. "Oh he graduated from University of Buffalo this year, he teaches at the TFC Academy" is what Wilde said. I know Zambrano has used L1O players at national training camps. Woodbridge defender Michael Krzeminski (who tonight was injured and subbed off at 60 minutes) was brought into the training camp this summer. Whether Zambrano needed human pylons for the regular team or impressive play might earn him a place is unknown but he deserves a chance. There was a medal presentation after the game and Woodbridge got their medals first then disappeared back to the locker room. Oakville got theirs and then the trophy was presented. If Woodbridge would have won I'd be dropping names on that team in this report like head coach Peter Pinizzotto who coached Toronto Lynx when they first entered the A-League in 1997 and CNSL Toronto Italia before that. Etc etc. After something like every player and official on the Blue Devils held the trophy, a team rep handed it to me and I posed for a picture. That was something I never yearned for but it's the Voyageur's Cup I want to fondle because I tell anyone who'll listen that "I helped pay for that trophy". I congratulated a few of the OBD players on the field or at the food room inside the OSC building. Captain Taylor McNamara who I reminded that I watched him play for Toronto Lynx of PDL (before Toronto FC had team for a few years), I only found out tonight he is a school gym teacher. Stephen Ademolu who joked that now he can't retire (age 34, because of the chance in that chance in May). He joined OBD halfway through this season, although he was signed but injured last year, from Windsor TFC Stars (who ended up bringing undermanned rosters to the GTA). He has five hour drives to get to the OBD home games and most of the teams being in the GTA. "Yes" he answered it was worth it. Coach Duncan Wilde for years coaching Toronto Lynx of A-League and PDL and Blue Devils when they were the Lynx farm team and won the CSL championship in 2005. Wilde answered me the 'OBD Women' have filed an application to enter a team into the L1O Women's Division. The league sometimes doesn't announce decisions like that until their banquet or meetings after that. Oakville has a history of having the best girls'/women's teams in Canada for various tournaments over the years so should be a natural. He said they'll start with players from their Junior Lady Lynx roster. Blue Devils won the league in 2015. There's only been four years of the league's existance so they can say they are the first multi-time winner. I was surprised that their 2017 name plaque had been adhesed to the trophy already but I expect the league had a Woodbridge name plate made just in case. In 2015 the season OBD won by finishing first in the 12 team single table. It wasn't a lost season for Woodbridge. They can still brag that they finished first in the East and they won the L1O Cup trophy competition this season. Hmm Woodbridge won the Cup in 2015 too! I will say that 2018 is the best chance for the L1O representative to advance in the Canadian Championship. This may be the only year without teams from the new Canadian Premier league which may start halfway through 2018 or by the start of 2019. It's not just that there will be more rounds for the L1O representative to get through but I can see the new league skimming the best five players from the better L1O teams to stockpile their own rosters. The amateur L1O teams (just a handful of semi-pros on some teams) won't be able to compete with retaining players to a professional league. Holding the game Friday night will mean that many of the players won't miss their college or university games this weekend. Rocket Robin robing@eol.ca twitter @RocketRobin01
Woodbridge Strikers starters
Oakville Blue Devils starters
OBD Mathew Santos (13) takes opening kickoff.
The therapist Justin Miranda treats WS Quante Abbott-Hill Smith (2) injury in WS box.
WS Dylan Carreiro (7) takes second half kickoff.
Players after dust up has broken up.
Captains WS Dylan Carreiro (7) and OBD Taylor McNamara (14) at coinflip for Penalty kicks.
OBD Taylor McNamara (14) lifts championship trophy.
After everyone else had their chance I was offered a chance to hold the trophy!
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