Newfoundland Molson Challenge cup soccer 2005

[Obinna]

Newfoundland Molson Challenge Cup results:

Date Time Team Score Team Score Location

Sat 4th 4:00 PM Marystown 3 Harbour Grace 0 Harbour Grace

Sat 4th 4:00 PM fieldians 0 Canada Games 1 Mount Pearl

Sat 4th 6:30 PM St. Lawrence 2 Mount Pearl 3 (Won on Golden Goal) Mount Pearl

Sun 5th 2:00 PM Marystown 0 Mount Pearl 1 Mount Pearl

Sun 5th 2:00 PM St. Lawrence 7 Harbour Grace 0 Harbour Grace

Sat 11th 6:30 PM Holy Cross 2 Marystown 1 Marystown

Sat 11th 6:30 PM Mount Pearl 5 Harbour Grace 0 Harbour Grace

Sun 12th 2:00 PM Holy Cross 0 St. Lawrence 5 St. Lawrence

Sun 12th 2:00 PM fieldians 2 Harbour Grace 0 Harbour Grace

Sun 12th 2:00 PM Mount Pearl 1 Canada Games 2 Mount Pearl

Wed 15th 6:30 PM fieldians 3 Mount Pearl 4 (Won on Golden Goal)

Mount Pearl

Wed 15th 8:30 PM Canada Games 2 (won on penalty shots) Holy Cross

2 King George V

Sat 18th 4:00 PM Harbour Grace 1 St. Lawrence 10 St. Lawrence

Sat 18th 6:30 PM fieldians 1 Marystown 1 (Won on penalty S hots) Marystown

Sun 19th 1:00 PM Harbour Grace 0 Marystown 4 Marystown

Sun 19th 2:00 PM Holy Cross 0 Mount Pearl 1 Mount Pearl

Sun 19th 3:30 PM fieldians 1 St. Lawrence 6 St. Lawrence

Wed 22nd 6:30 PM St. Lawrence 5 Marystown 1 Marystown

Wed 22nd 6:30 PM Mount Pearl 1 Canada Games 0 Mount Pearl

Wed 22nd 8:30 PM Harbour Grace 0 fieldians 7 King George V

Sat 25th 4:00 PM Marystown Holy Cross King George V

Sat 25th 6:30 PM St. Lawrence fieldians King George V

Sun 26th 1:00 PM Marystown Canada Games Mount Pearl

Sun 26th 3:30 PM St. Lawrence Holy Cross King George V

Wed 29th 6:30 PM Canada Games fieldians King George V

Wed 29th 8:30 PM Mount Pearl Holy Cross King George V

Newfoundland Molson Challenge Cup Standings:

Team # Games Wins Losses Ties Golden Goal Win Shootout Wins Goals For Goals Against Goal Difference Points

Mount Pearl 7 4 1 2 2 0 15 7 8 18

St. Lawrence 6 5 0 1 0 0 35 6 29 16

Canada Games 4 2 1 1 0 1 5 4 1 8

Marystown 6 2 3 1 0 1 10 9 1 8

fieldians 6 2 2 2 0 0 14 11 3 8

Holy Cross 4 1 2 1 0 1 5 10 -5 5

Harbour Grace 7 0 7 0 0 0 1 38 -37 0

Newfoundland Molson Challenge Cup Scoring Leaders:

Scoring Leaders

Name Team Goals

Ryan Slaney St. Lawrence 7

Rudy Norman St. Lawrence 6

Paul J Slaney St. Lawrence 6

Chad Moore fieldians 6

Richard Kelly St. Lawrence 4

Jeff Walsh Mount Pearl 3

Bernie Manning Mount Pearl 3

Darrell Stewart Marystown 3

Graham Moulton Marystown 3

Ryan Caines Mount Pearl 3

Mark Pittman St. Lawrence 2

Patrick Edwards St. Lawrence 2

David Bailey Mount Pearl 2

Alec Turpin Mount Pearl 2

Shaun Manning Mount Pearl 2

Jon Hawco Holy Cross 2

Robert Kelly St. Lawrence 2

Jamie Loder St. Lawrence 2

Matthew Wilkins fieldians 2

Justin Black fieldians 2

Andrew Perrot St. Lawrence 1

Darrin Pike St. Lawrence 1

Adam Loder St. Lawrence 1

Chris Caines St. Lawrence 1

Chris White Canada Games 1

Justin Peckford Canada Games 1

Zac Atwood Canada Games 1

Kurtis Walsh Canada Games 1

Chris Mallard Canada Games 1

John Acreman Mount Pearl 1

Patrick Fewer Marystown 1

Brandon Lundrigan Marystown 1

John Riley Marystown 1

Mike Wall Marystown 1

Scott Edward Marystown 1

JB DelRizzo Holy Cross 1

Zack Atwood Holy Cross 1

Gary Williams fieldians 1

Neil Bodman fieldians 1

John Hogan fieldians 1

Marc Acreman fieldians 1

Mike McCarthy Harbour Grace 1

[aussoccerfan]

How many fans do they usually get at those games ?

[Obinna]

depends, sunday at our game against mount pearl we had mabye 75 people....100 at the most, but that's pushing it.

but during the championships held labour day weekend we draw alot more, and the final game easily gets a couple thousand

what about in the NSSL?

[Obinna]

depends, sunday at our game against mount pearl we had mabye 75 people....100 at the most, but that's pushing it.

but during the championships held labour day weekend we draw alot more, and the final game easily gets a couple thousand

what about in the NSSL?

[aussoccerfan]

quote:Originally posted by Obinna

depends, sunday at our game against mount pearl we had mabye 75 people....100 at the most, but that's pushing it.

but during the championships held labour day weekend we draw alot more, and the final game easily gets a couple thousand

what about in the NSSL?

The games I have gone to so far this season have had crowds that I estimated to be between 30-85.

[Obinna]

Right on

Who looks to be the strongest team this year?

[Luis_Rancagua]

Obinna,realistically, how do you see the future of the NSSL??? Can you see this league becoming highly competitive than other provincial leagues??? Is there presently any talks of serious reforms, competing with other maritime leagues, etc...

[aussoccerfan]

quote:Originally posted by Luis_Rancagua

Obinna,realistically, how do you see the future of the NSSL??? Can you see this league becoming highly competitive than other provincial leagues??? Is there presently any talks of serious reforms, competing with other maritime leagues, etc...

I know this question was for Obinna,

but this might answer your question.

http://www.nssoccerleague.ca/sr_soccer.asp

[aussoccerfan]

quote:Originally posted by Obinna

Right on

Who looks to be the strongest team this year?

If your talking about the NSSL,

Scotia SC's Sr-men's and Sr-women's teams both haven't lost a game yet.

[Obinna]

Thanks for the link ausoccerfan, helps me answer my question.

Luis Rancagua from what I can gather the NSSL is a fairly good calibre provincial leauge, but I have never seen a game.

Does anyone know how it compares to the AUS in terms of quality and game speed etc. (ausoccerfan might be able to answer this too)

Sigma Harbour Grace are a new entry this year, hopefully they will not become too discouraged and stay in the leauge.

[aussoccerfan]

quote:Originally posted by Obinna

Thanks for the link ausoccerfan, helps me answer my question.

Luis Rancagua from what I can gather the NSSL is a fairly good calibre provincial leauge, but I have never seen a game.

Does anyone know how it compares to the AUS in terms of quality and game speed etc. (ausoccerfan might be able to answer this too)

Sigma Harbour Grace are a new entry this year, hopefully they will not become too discouraged and stay in the leauge.

There are some AUS players in the NSSL.

How does the NFLD league compare to the AUS ?

[Obinna]

Same thing with our leauge except the majority of AUS players in our leauge are MUN seahawks.

other AUS players are

-UCCB's matthew wilkins(fieldians) and corey moore(holy cross)

-UNB' ryan slaney(st. lawerence)

in terms of how many AUS player each team has:

Mount Pearl has five

St. Lawerence has five

Holy Cross has eight

Marystown has three

fieldians has three

Harbour grace has zero

Most other players in the leauge are MUN seahawks alumni or have played MUN or AUS soccer at one time but are deciding to take a year or so away from the program.

[argh1]

quote:Originally posted by Obinna

Same thing with our leauge except the majority of AUS players in our leauge are MUN seahawks.

other AUS players are

-UCCB's matthew wilkins(fieldians) and corey moore(holy cross)

-UNB' ryan slaney(st. lawerence)

in terms of how many AUS player each team has:

Mount Pearl has five

St. Lawerence has five

Holy Cross has eight

Marystown has three

fieldians has three

Harbour grace has zero

Most other players in the leauge are MUN seahawks alumni or have played MUN or AUS soccer at one time but are deciding to take a year or so away from the program.

It is interesting how AUS players are spending the summer.

There is no NB Senior league this year (Fundy United [sJ] is playing in the PEI Senior League) but there are 3 MtA players with Amherst United and maybe (?) 5 U de M players with Dieppe Dynamo in the Codiac Senior Soccer League. I'm sure there must be some UNB/St. Thomas players playing in the Capital Region League. Also there must be a bunch of ACAA players in the Fundy Region League and Codiac Region League as UNBSJ and ABU play in that college league.

EDIT: I'm sure if anybody who knows Atlantic Canada that NB is unique in the region where there is no concentration of population within one area. So Capital, Fundy , Codiac regions are about equal in population. So basically there's 600,000 in the Freddy, Saint John, Moncton triangle and 160,000 in the north. The Northern part of the province would be represented by Miramichi, Chaleur/Acadian Peninsula , Restigouche and Madawaska/Victoria regions.

So Challenge/Jubilee Cup playdowns should be interesting this year.

[Obinna]

That's very interesting, I never knew NB does not have a senior leauge this year.

What happened to it?

[argh1]

For the last few years there was the NB/PEI Senior League but only Fundy United returned this year. Why, I don't know, travel, politics, lack of interest take your pick. Ask 5 people you'll get 10 different answers. But in the past teams that were registered as division 1 were elligible to compete in Challenge Cup playdowns anyway New Maryland United from Fredericton did this last year and played all their games in the Capital area.So whether there is a provincial league or regional leagues that have a playoff to see who represents NB at the nationals probably makes no difference. If anything to look at the upside maybe sticking to regional leagues instead of a province wide league will prove to have greater participation.

[Obinna]

I agree with you there actually, a regional leauge would make alot of sense in a province like New Brunswick.

Unfortunatly for us in Newfoundland, the overwhelming majority of our clubs are in the St, John's/Mount Pearl/Conception Bay Metro area, so regional leauges are almost impossible, but this year they are experimenting with it in western Newfoundland.

Regional leagues will indeed prove to result in more participation for you guys, as well as cut down on travel costs.

How many teams are in these regional leauges, and how many are there?

[argh1]

There are seven regional leagues. I don't know about the others but where I live, The Codiac Senior Division 1 league Consists of:

Moncton Rovers

Moncton First Touch (this team used to play in the NB/PEI Senior League)

Dieppe Dynamo (formerly known as Primo, but changed their name to get away from being purely a team of Italian decent players [Dieppe is the town bordering Moncton to the immediate east Champlain Mall and the Greater Moncton Airport are in Dieppe])

Maniacs de Kent Sud (Town of Buctouche and area)

Shediac Rams (Town of Shediac)

Amherst United (Town of Amherst N.S.)

NB Selects (Canada Games team)

There is also Divisions two (this division has teams from the towns and villages of Sackville, Riverview and Salisbury) and Division three in the Codiac Senior League.

Codiac Regional RCMP have a team in Div 2 as well as Miramichi City United who play in both Miramichi Div 1 and Codiac Div 2. Amherst United also play in the Truro NS league as Amherst is in NS. But only a 15 minute drive to Sackville and a 30 minute to Moncton and at least an hour to Truro.

Codiac teams play a two game a week schedule from June to early September. I know Amherst U joined the Truro league this year so they could be registered as a Div 1 NS team and to play 3 games a week.

EDIT: I'm sorry to take you away from posting results and news of Newfoundland soccer. I only thought the news of AUS players was interesting []

[argh1]

There are seven regional leagues. I don't know about the others but where I live, The Codiac Senior Division 1 league Consists of:

Moncton Rovers

Moncton First Touch (this team used to play in the NB/PEI Senior League)

Dieppe Dynamo (formerly known as Primo, but changed their name to get away from being purely a team of Italian decent players [Dieppe is the town bordering Moncton to the immediate east Champlain Mall and the Greater Moncton Airport are in Dieppe])

Maniacs de Kent Sud (Town of Buctouche and area)

Shediac Rams (Town of Shediac)

Amherst United (Town of Amherst N.S.)

NB Selects (Canada Games team)

There is also Divisions two (this division has teams from the towns and villages of Sackville, Riverview and Salisbury) and Division three in the Codiac Senior League.

Codiac Regional RCMP have a team in Div 2 as well as Miramichi City United who play in both Miramichi Div 1 and Codiac Div 2. Amherst United also play in the Truro NS league as Amherst is in NS. But only a 15 minute drive to Sackville and a 30 minute to Moncton and at least an hour to Truro.

Codiac teams play a two game a week schedule from June to early September. I know Amherst U joined the Truro league this year so they could be registered as a Div 1 NS team and to play 3 games a week.

EDIT: I'm sorry to take you away from posting results and news of Newfoundland soccer. I only thought the news of AUS players was interesting []

[Obinna]

That's very interesting, I never knew all of this was happening in the maritimes, good to know though!

No need to appoligize about that, im just glad that soccer in Atlantic Canada is being talked about in general!

Have you seen the NB canada games team play? How are they looking?

[aussoccerfan]

quote:Originally posted by argh1

There are seven regional leagues. I don't know about the others but where I live, The Codiac Senior Division 1 league Consists of:

Moncton Rovers

Moncton First Touch (this team used to play in the NB/PEI Senior League)

Dieppe Dynamo (formerly known as Primo, but changed their name to get away from being purely a team of Italian decent players [Dieppe is the town bordering Moncton to the immediate east Champlain Mall and the Greater Moncton Airport are in Dieppe])

Maniacs de Kent Sud (Town of Buctouche and area)

Shediac Rams (Town of Shediac)

Amherst United (Town of Amherst N.S.)

NB Selects (Canada Games team)

There is also Divisions two (this division has teams from the towns and villages of Sackville, Riverview and Salisbury) and Division three in the Codiac Senior League.

Codiac Regional RCMP have a team in Div 2 as well as Miramichi City United who play in both Miramichi Div 1 and Codiac Div 2. Amherst United also play in the Truro NS league as Amherst is in NS. But only a 15 minute drive to Sackville and a 30 minute to Moncton and at least an hour to Truro.

Codiac teams play a two game a week schedule from June to early September. I know Amherst U joined the Truro league this year so they could be registered as a Div 1 NS team and to play 3 games a week.

EDIT: I'm sorry to take you away from posting results and news of Newfoundland soccer. I only thought the news of AUS players was interesting []

Is there somewhere that has a schedule for the Codiac League's games ?

[aussoccerfan]

Here are the standings for the PEI SR-Men's league-

http://www.seniormensleague.com/standings.php

In Newfoundland-

Are there any teams from the Corner Brook area ?

Do they play teams from St. John's ?

[aussoccerfan]

quote:Originally posted by Obinna

How many teams are in these regional leauges, and how many are there?

This thread has a list of all of the regional leagues in Nova Scotia-

http://www.canadian-soccer.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6558

[Obinna]

Up until this year Corner Brook had an entry in then challenge cup leauge.

Although the team went under the name of "Corner Brook Eagles", they were more of a regional team because they usually had players from Deer Lake and Stephenville as well.

This year the NLSA are experimenting with an 8-12 team "Western leauge", and my understanding is that the winner of this leauge will join the 4th 5th and 6th place teams from the Molson Challenge cup leauge in a four team tournment.

The winner will become the fourth seed in the Final Four Labour Day Tournment.

The other 3 seeds are awarded to whoever finishes in the top 3 of the Challenge Cup leauge after the regular season is finished.

I think the main reason that Corner Brook aren't in the leauge this year is because of the Travel expenise, corner brook from st. john's is a 10 hour drive, and corner brook to the Burin Pelinsula(St. Lawerence/Marystown) is about 5 or 6 hours.

[Obinna]

Up until this year Corner Brook had an entry in then challenge cup leauge.

Although the team went under the name of "Corner Brook Eagles", they were more of a regional team because they usually had players from Deer Lake and Stephenville as well.

This year the NLSA are experimenting with an 8-12 team "Western leauge", and my understanding is that the winner of this leauge will join the 4th 5th and 6th place teams from the Molson Challenge cup leauge in a four team tournment.

The winner will become the fourth seed in the Final Four Labour Day Tournment.

The other 3 seeds are awarded to whoever finishes in the top 3 of the Challenge Cup leauge after the regular season is finished.

I think the main reason that Corner Brook aren't in the leauge this year is because of the Travel expenise, corner brook from st. john's is a 10 hour drive, and corner brook to the Burin Pelinsula(St. Lawerence/Marystown) is about 5 or 6 hours.

[aussoccerfan]

quote:Originally posted by Obinna

Up until this year Corner Brook had an entry in then challenge cup leauge.

Although the team went under the name of "Corner Brook Eagles", they were more of a regional team because they usually had players from Deer Lake and Stephenville as well.

This year the NLSA are experimenting with an 8-12 team "Western leauge", and my understanding is that the winner of this leauge will join the 4th 5th and 6th place teams from the Molson Challenge cup leauge in a four team tournment.

The winner will become the fourth seed in the Final Four Labour Day Tournment.

The other 3 seeds are awarded to whoever finishes in the top 3 of the Challenge Cup leauge after the regular season is finished.

I think the main reason that Corner Brook aren't in the leauge this year is because of the Travel expenise, corner brook from st. john's is a 10 hour drive, and corner brook to the Burin Pelinsula(St. Lawerence/Marystown) is about 5 or 6 hours.

Do you know how far it is from Port aux Basques to St. John's ?