Rocket Robin Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Result and details of the League 1 Ontario game of Friday May 12, 2017 between Durham United FA and Aurora FC at The Pickering Soccer Centre in Pickering at 7:30pm. 12 min...DUFA Christian Moncrieffe GOAL...DUFA Cameron Brooks sends pass from 25 yards and Moncrieffe shoots 10 yard shot on left past sliding goalie into left side of net. 14 min...DUFA Kashiff De Jonge GOAL...AFC goalie Adam Scanlon blasts clearance from 6 yards on left post that hits player at 10 yards and falls to DUFA Jonathan Parolini who touches ball to De Jonge who quickly takes 12 yarder from left into open net. 30 min...AFC Matthew Caguana GOAL...AFC Dylan Rennie on pass/deflection from 18 yards on left reaches Caguana who shoots low 12 yarder down middle into right side of net. 32 min...DUFA Tim Flynn GOAL...DUFA Edward Lay cornerkick from right is headed across box and AFC defender misses bicycle kick clearance at 12 yards. Flynn standing beside him recovers ball on left and takes low shot into right side of net. 58 min...DUFA Christian Moncrieffe GOAL...DUFA Cameron Brooks takes low 30 yard freekick from right that's into box and players on both teams miss connecting on edge of 6 yard box. Moncrieffe charging in on left side of box connects on 10 yarder blasting ball into right side of net. 74 min...AFC Jackson Tooke draws Penalty kick from referee John Vlahos on run to just inside right side of box. 75 min...AFC Christopher Jacovou blasts Penalty kick low to left post and diving goalie Ben Cowman gets hand to stop it and defender clears. Final Score:...Durham United FA........4......Aurora FC........1...... Attendance picked up to about 75 by the time the game ended. The game was held at Pickering's indoor dome facility. The team scheduled their first two home games at this facility as Kinsmen Park is usually still drying out from the rains at this time of year. Next Friday they will play Ottawa South United Force. After two weekends of attending outdoor games in the unseasonably cold and wet, this place was a nice break although 'outside' tonight would have been quite bearable. This was the home opener for DUFA. It was an important win for any championship hopes as they've started the season with a tie and a loss to fellow Eastern Conference powerhouses Vaughan (score 0-0) and Woodbridge (0-1). The team in past years usually starts out fast then fizzles out when many of the players return to NCAA schools (although not quite as exaggerated as Sigma FC). This year a team official assured me they have quite a few players who have finished school and will stay the entire season. I can see some of these players showcasing their skills to show off this season and next for an invite/draft to the new CanPL league that starts in the fall of 2018. Aurora's record falls to 1 tie and 2 losses in the first three weeks of the season. The two early goals coming so quickly in succession looked like it rattled the team and certainly boosted the confidence of DUFA. The DUFA quick response to score after AFC got their only goal cooled any chances of the momentum shifting although three AFC chances in the last five minutes of the first half with a missed shot, a defender clearing, and a stop by goalie Ben Cowman stopped any comeback. Referee Jon Vlahos gave out no cards in this game. AFC Dylan Rennie was subbed off at 56 minutes after being injured just inside the AFC box and needed help limping off. Otherwise there were no major injuries. The DUFA bench kept advising their players "No foul, no foul" to remind them not to be carded as even if an AFC player got by a defender, there would always be another to close the play down. DUFA almost put the game out of reach in the first half with Christian Moncrieffe hitting the post from 15 yards at 43 minutes. That would have turned his night into a hat-trick. Some quirks of this facility were a call for a 'drop' ball when a clearance hit the ceiling of the bubble. It is much easier for this to happen near the sidelines. Another (but probably just because it was the first game this season) was the timekeeper couldn't get the scoreboard to run 'up' in the second half and after a few resets let the clock count 'down' like the other kind of football. I'm sure they'll program it right for next week. Rocket Robin robing@eol.ca twitter @RocketRobin01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Robin Posted May 15, 2017 Author Share Posted May 15, 2017 Result and details of the League 1 Ontario game of Sunday May 14, 2017 between Sanjaxx Lions and Windsor TFC Stars played at Monarch Park Stadium in Toronto at 2:00pm. 28 min...Sanjaxx Hiliard Serrao GOAL...SJ Andrew Gordon races down left wing and sends low cross from 25 yards near end line that has SJ Antonio Downey dummy a shot at 10 yards on left post and Serrao at 7 yards even with right post kicks ball over sprawling goalie Kyle Vizirakis. 31 min...Sanjaxx Antonio Downey GOAL...Downey is fed through ball by SJ Kemar Rowe and runs up middle from 45 yards and rolls ball past goalie sliding at 15 yards into right side of net. 33 min...WS Martin Nyul is tripped up on right side of box and referee Alexis Vaughan calls for a Penalty kick. 34 min...Stars Celso Carapau GOAL...Carapau rolls Penalty kick to right corner of net as goalie Nuno Goncalves crumples in middle. 49 min...Stars Celso Carapau GOAL...WS Martin Nyal sends low cross from 18 yards on right that has Carapau between crowd of players roof 7 yard shot from middle over sprawling goalie. Final Score:...Sanjaxx Lions........2......Windsor TFC Stars.....2... Attendance was about 25 on this cool day with the cover altering between sunny and cloudy about four six during the game. The promotion of 'Mothers Get In Free' (Mother's Day is today) didn't have much effect. Windsor scrambled at the end looking for a winning goal but couldn't win a Penalty kick call in injury time. Referee Alexis Vaughan (who was the fourth official at the USL game at BMO yesterday) gave out three Yellow cards today, all to Sanjaxx players. The game never got rough. The only constant was a continuous gusty wind from the west which effected the team with the wind at their back. Sanjaxx had that advantage in the first half. Goalie punts were sailing from the goalie standing in the west to his opposite number. Freekicks and passes flew or bounced over the east end line regularly. The wind today rivaled KIA Training Centre where Toronto FC III play their home games where I was the last two Sunday afternoons. Only thing is the weather was a lot warmer today. I put down my highlight marker on a bench in the stands and it rolled ten feet on its own before I turned back around. Concrete stands, long wooden planks for each row attached to them to sit on. Capacity of 5000 with stands in the south. Any stands in the north would back right into the high school that Olympic Champion swimmer Penny Oleksiak attends. Sanjaxx looked much improved over last year with a record of two ties and one loss in their three games. Today they found a successful strategy of sending the ball down the middle at least in the first half which might have been aided with the wind in their favour. Lions are again wearing yellow shirts with white numbers which I can't distinguish without binoculars (even worse for night games). Thankfully there's distinctive coloured shoes and hairstyles. Stefan Nikolic equals late 1960s era singer Art Garfunkel with his 'fro'. Captain Hiliard Serrao equals shaved head etc. Windsor signed a partnership agreement with Toronto FC less than a year ago and have been re-branded as Windsor TFC. They now wear a modified TFC badge like TFC II with the numerals bent into a 'W'. At least for this road game they wore a white and red kit. I thought I recognized the names of about half the players from last year. I don't expect the changes brought in by TFC to install an academy system will show much change in this first year. Some press announcements listing names of attendees of players to attend TFC's KIA Training Centre are probably a few years younger than this L1O team. Yikes, Stephen Ademolu is now 34 and I watched him play for Windsor back in 2011 when they were in the CSL. Stars record improves to one win, one loss, and one tie. A large stretch of the east-west subway was closed yesterday but not today which got me to come as I hadn't seen either of these team this season. Sanjaxx is once again playing all of its home games this season at Monarch Park in the east end of the old City of Toronto. Most of the housing in the neighbourhood must be nearing the 100 year mark. The area is near trendy The Beaches on Lake Ontario and at least for the day the wind crossed over into this area. The Lions don't have much time to rest as they are scheduled for L1O Cup action on Tuesday night against Woodbridge Strikers who happen to be playing at the same time today as this game against North Toronto Nitros. That makes eight games attended, so far for me--twelve teams out of sixteen seen and the league's only finished its third week. Rocket Robin robing@eol.ca twitter @RocketRobin01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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