DJT Posted May 29, 2004 Share Posted May 29, 2004 No update yet, just getting ready! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarnCherry Posted May 29, 2004 Share Posted May 29, 2004 I guess we'll onlyget an update when it's over. meanwhile I'll listen to the Seattle-Milwaukee match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarnCherry Posted May 29, 2004 Share Posted May 29, 2004 1-1 final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoyleG Posted May 29, 2004 Share Posted May 29, 2004 Calgary 1 Edmonton 1 Att: 1,014 The game almost didn't happen as a thunderstorm hit the city just over an hour before kickoff. I left the downtown region when it was still warm with clouds overhead. The rain started when the C-Train I was on pulled into the Banff Trail station. The Mustangs did push for that equalizer and got it in 2nd half injury time. Hats off to them but lets see them win from now one. I noticed the music was being played in the stadium. A song would start and go for 10 seconds before it was stopped by the resumption of play. The original attendance was at 1,012. They added the other 2 after they did a recount.Guess I know where the State of Florida got their ballot counters from. I'll see if I can make it to the next game in Cowtown later this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarnCherry Posted May 29, 2004 Share Posted May 29, 2004 quote:Originally posted by DoyleG Calgary 1 Edmonton 1 Att: 1,014 The game almost didn't happen as a thunderstorm hit the city just over an hour before kickoff. I left the downtown region when it was still warm with clouds overhead. The rain started when the C-Train I was on pulled into the Banff Trail station. The Mustangs did push for that equalizer and got it in 2nd half injury time. Hats off to them but lets see them win from now one. I noticed the music was being played in the stadium. A song would start and go for 10 seconds before it was stopped by the resumption of play. The original attendance was at 1,012. They added the other 2 after they did a recount.Guess I know where the State of Florida got their ballot counters from. I'll see if I can make it to the next game in Cowtown later this season. Wow, where did they manage to fit all those fans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarnCherry Posted May 29, 2004 Share Posted May 29, 2004 Just a comparison, Whitecaps women drew 2870 to tonights game against the Seattle women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJT Posted May 29, 2004 Author Share Posted May 29, 2004 From CP through Canoe: Calgary scores in injury time to earn 1-1 draw with Edmonton EDMONTON (CP) - Sergei Kolomiets-Raad scored in the 91st minute to lift the Calgary Mustangs to a 1-1 draw with the Edmonton Aviators in A-League action on Friday. The Aviators opened the scoring with a goal from Freddy Akok in the 38th minute. "The team worked very hard," said Edmonton head coach Ross Ongaro. "Unfortunately, we gave up a late goal in the last few seconds of the game. "Obviously, we are a little disappointed with the result. We deserved the win but know that we will need to continue to work hard to improve." From the Edmonton Sun: Sat, May 29, 2004 Akok's status A-OK SCOTT ZERR, EDMONTON SUN CALGARY -- Good thing Freddy Akok got his paperwork issues cleared up by game time. Had it not been for his lucky strike in the first half, the Edmonton Aviators might just have been grounded by the Calgary Mustangs. But Akok, who misplaced his landed-immigrant status papers prior to training camp, got a replacement work permit Thursday morning. His goal, and clutch saves by Jose Luis Campi in the early going, were enough for the Aviators to salvage a 1-1 OT draw with the Mustangs in an A-League tilt last night at McMahon Stadium. "When you give it your all for 90 minutes and end up with a tie, it's disappointing," said Akok, a native of Liberia who had spent the last two seasons playing for the Alberta Major League's Ital-Candians. Both clubs remain in search of their first win of the year - Edmonton stands at 0-1-3 while Calgary moves to 0-5-2. The Aviators have their inaugural home game tomorrow against the Minnesota Thunder. A torrential pre-game storm forced the teams to begin their warmup in the tunnels of the stadium, and it was there that Aviators coach Ross Ongaro told Akok to shoot if the opportunity presented itself. In the 37th minute, Akok let go from 30 yards out. Call it harmless or innocent, it still found the net when Mustangs 'keeper Lutz Pfannenstiel muffed the bounce off the rain-soaked turf. "I saw the opening and I just took a shot," said Akok, who notched just the Aviators' second goal in four games. Akok's goal may not have mattered had it not been for Campi's sensational netminding in the game's opening 15 minutes as the Mustangs stampeded through the Aviators defence for a series of scoring opportunities. Campi made a lunging stop on a 20-yard attempt by Steffen Holdt. Then he came racing off his line to thwart a chance for Damir Jesic. More bad luck befell Jesic, the former University of Alberta Golden Bears standout, as the Mustangs kept scampering through the Aviators backfield. Jesic rocketed a shot off Campi's hands that clanked the crossbar. And then was sent in alone for a second time only to have Campi snuff out the chance with a sliding stop. "He saved our backsides a couple times," said Ongaro. "I thought we adjusted well after that first 15 minutes. We got a fluky goal, but in these conditions you want to shoot." Edmonton's woeful attack finally started to put some pressure on the Mustangs, but didn't produce a shot on goal until Akok's break. The Aviators didn't do a thing offensively through the entire second half, hoping that a defensive shell would salt away their first victory. The plan was on its way to a successful conclusion until the 91st minute when a low drive into the box wasn't cleared and Sergei Kolomiets-Raad whacked a loose ball into the net. "I didn't think we sat back. They're obviously going to come at you down 1-0 at home with 12 minutes to go," said Ongaro. "Calgary's played a lot more games than us and they're a lot more offensive (with) their forwards making combination passes - which we have not yet created. "Freddy did all right but we're still not creating enough chances." FLIGHT PLAN: Campi and Claudio Salinas were tagged with yellow cards ... Edmonton's second-half subs were Chris Lemire (Sipho Sibiya), Paul Dhaliwal (Nik Vignjevic), Kurt Bosch (Gordon Chin) and Simon Kassaye (Chris Devlin). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoyleG Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 The Mustangs did look like they were kicking field goals at times instead of trying to score. Funny I said that given that the goal posts were still in place and nets put up to deal with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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