Sun August 7, 2016 League 1 Ontario--Woodbridge Strikers vs Oakville Blue Devils (from League 1 Ontario website)

Late Jones Penalty Gets Oakville Draw With Woodbridge Strikers
08/08/2016, 6:00pm EDT
By League1 Ontario staff

Woodbridge Strikers and Oakville Blue Devils each took a share of the points 
on Sunday as first Strikers' Richard Parker (80') put the home side ahead 
at Vaughan Grove, Woodbridge, before Oakville's Blake Jones (90 + 6') 
levelled terms with a last minute penalty equalizer.

"I thought we thoroughly deserved to get something out of the game," 
said Oakville head coach, Duncan Wilde. 

"It is a very difficult place to come to because they are very competitive 
and they've got good pace, and they can always hit you on the break like 
they did to score today."

Woodbridge is battling for first position in the east division with 
Vaughan Azzurri, with Strikers only one point behind their division 
rivals, but with Vaughan carrying a game in hand. 

"Well we just gave three points away, it's as simple as that," 
said Peter Pinizzotto, head coach of Woodbridge Strikers. "We couldn't 
deal with the pressure at the end, and we just fell apart."

"Overall we are missing a lot of players right now, a lot of injuries, 
suspensions, guys went away so today we had to make a lot of changes 
in our lineup."

"I still thought we played well enough to get the three points but it's 
unfortunate that at the end we broke down. We made some mental mistakes 
that ended up costing us three points." 

Defending League1 Ontario champions Oakville have struggled to get 
consistency, and occupy sixth position in the west division.

"That's probably our best overall ninety minute overall performance 
all season," said Oakville head coach, Duncan Wilde. "It's just too 
bad we couldn't turn it into all three points, but we're happy 
at the end."

"There were a couple close calls at the end of the game, and we got 
one of them to be able to tie the game, which is good, but I'm most 
pleased that we brought in a number of U21s tonight."

"We've been depleted for a while and tonight was probably the most 
- I had twelve from our junior or younger team program in the 
squad tonight. Two or three of them got on the field and did 
a great job. We have a very strong youth development program and 
that's going to be beneficial to us and vital going forward."

"Hopefully by next Sunday we can get some of our regular players 
back and we can kick on a little bit but we keep going hit and miss. 
This is a good one for us but now we'll concentrate on next Sunday, 
try and get three points and move on."

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