Rocket Robin Posted July 17, 2004 Share Posted July 17, 2004 Result of the Friday July 16, 2004 W-League game between Toronto Inferno and New Jersey Wildcats played at the Ontario Soccer Centre in Vaughan at 7:00pm. 34 min...Wildcats Marinette Pichon GOAL...NJW Anne Makinen rolls cross from left into box and Pichon boots in 5 yard roller into net to right corner. 36 min...Wildcats Marinette Pichon GOAL...Pichon 25 yard chip in crowd of players in from left and into right corner of net over goalie Anne Ogundele. 66 min...Wildcats Marinette Pichon GOAL...Pichon gets bounced ball and turns and fires 20 yarder into right side of net. 75 min...Wildcats Cara Hammond GOAL...Hammond one-touches pass from 15 yards low into low left side of net. 85 min...Wildcats Marieke Van Tienhoven GOAL...Van Tienhoven boots in rebound from 5 yards after goalie had made diving save in furious in-Inferno box action. 89 min...Wildcats Maura Gallagher GOAL...Gallagher shot from left while leading rush and it looked like Inferno defender sliding back towards goalie puts ball into the roof of their net. Final Score:..........Toronto Inferno..........0...............New Jersey Wildcats............6........ Attendance was about 200 on this warm sunny evening. This was the home finale of the Inferno's 2004 season. Their record falls to 3-8. This game was a total mismatch. Amanda Brown earned the shutout for the Wildcats without making a save while Anne Ogundele had to be sharp for the Inferno to keep the score from being into double digits. When the Inferno did venture over their own side of center in the second half, the Wildcats would counterattack getting many 3 on 2 breaks. If the Inferno wanted to keep the score down, they could have played eleven men back. As the Inferno press release stated earlier in the week: "New Jersey's lineup features seven players who also suit up for England, Finland, France, Holland, Ireland, Trinidad & Tobago and the United States respectively at the World Cup level. The Wildcats' roster also includes four members of the United States' Under-21 squad and one member of its Under-19 team." While not every country was represented in tonight's game, France's Pichon scored the games first three goals and missed chances to double her effort. Tasha St Louis from Trinidad came in the second half and drew the game's only Yellow card when she knocked Inferno forward Naomi Eguchi out of the game by hacking her leg from behind in the center circle. Finnish winger Anne Makinen took many of the cornerkicks. If the WUSA gets started again next year, many of these players should drift up to that higher caliber league. A pleasant surprise was seeing the Willis twins again, Rochelle and Janine. These players played the Boston last year and for the Inferno before that. They were in the Canadian national team and Under 19 player pool a few years ago but could never get enough time off school to go to the tryouts. They are now both enrolled in Princeton studying Sociology and Physiology (?) and plan on law school after one more year at Princeton. Wildcats remain undefeated at 12-0 and move on to Sudbury to play the 0-11 Canadians. As a rep from the W-League taking in the game mentioned, the schedules were made at the beginning of the season based on last year's results. True the Wildcats record was only 7-7 in 2003. Undefeated Ottawa Fury plays host to the Inferno on Sunday. It looks like a Wildcats-Fury match will have to wait until the W-League playoffs. Rocket Robin robing@eol.ca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhitecapsFCFan Posted July 17, 2004 Share Posted July 17, 2004 quote:Originally posted by Rocket Robin Result of the Friday July 16, 2004 W-League game between Toronto Inferno and New Jersey Wildcats played at the Ontario Soccer Centre in Vaughan at 7:00pm. Attendance was about 200 on this warm sunny evening. As the Inferno press release stated earlier in the week: "New Jersey's lineup features seven players who also suit up for England, Finland, France, Holland, Ireland, Trinidad & Tobago and the United States respectively at the World Cup level. The Wildcats' roster also includes four members of the United States' Under-21 squad and one member of its Under-19 team." 200 to see this team? That's gotta be disappointing..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorontoInferno Posted July 17, 2004 Share Posted July 17, 2004 Very disappointing..the attendance was more around 240, but still we were definitely hoping for more, being our last home game and all. We had nearly 500 come to see montreal. They are an excellent team, one of the best we've seen, they shut every single chance we had down before the team reached the offensive third. Our keeper kept us in the game without a doubt, as Robin said... For you 'caps, or Fury fans, watchout these ladies are the real deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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