Rocket Robin Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Result and details from the Sunday June 9, 2013 PDL game between Toronto Lynx and River City Rovers played at Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke at 4:00PM. 35 min...RCR RED card...Peter May (their captain) is given a direct ejection by referee Niquita Amirkhanian while waiting on the edge of the Lynx box for RCR Hezekiah Weiss to make a long throw-in. It looked like he must have punched or elbowed Lynx Lloyd Grist but the ref saw it. 46 min (1st half injury time)...RCR Richard Ballard GOAL... RCR Hezekiah Weiss kicks low 25 yard cross from right sideline that has Ballard boot 12 yarder low and into left side of net with goalie Adam Jansen frozen in center of net. 51 min...RCR Dylan Terry GOAL...RCR Richard Ballard rushes to 15 yards down middle but holds possession when defenders block him. He taps ball over to left to RCR Humberto Bertran who rolls ball from 10 yards on left to Terry who kicks 5 yarder from right into empty net. Final Score:......Toronto Lynx.....0..... .....River City Rovers......2...... Attendance was just over 200 on this warm afternoon with a bright sun in the west. The crowd was the biggest I've seen at a non-school day game for a few years. It was proclaimed the first Toronto Soccer Association Day and Bill Spiers president of the TSA took the ceremonial kickoff with the mascot The Lynxster (who was there his second game in a row). There were lots of chances for both teams equally in the second half with the Rovers down a man. Best non-scoring plays were at 12 minutes when RCR Pierce Kiembi shot an 8 yarder wide left as an RCR player put a 20 yard ball into the box. 30 minutes had RCR Dylan Terry cross from 22 yards on the left and a charging RCR Pierce Kiembi headed the ball wide left from 10 yards. 44 minutes had RCR Terry send in a pass from the right from 45 yards that the charging Humberto Bertran headed a 12 yarder down the middle wide right of the post. Lynx swapped three players a halftime. They had to switch goalies with Matt Silva replacing Adam Jansen when he was hurt at 59 minutes. 53 minutes had Lynx Maksym Kowal cut over the the left and blast an 18 yarder down the middle that the goalie dived to left to push the shot wide of the post. 56 minutes had Lynx Taylor McNamara charge to the end line on the left to fire and 8 yarder that the goalie smothered. 74 minutes had and RCR player on the left send in a low cross from 15 yards past the goalie on the left post and RCR Terry at 4 yards shoot wide right of the open net. 78 minutes had Lynx Sam Oritt roll a pass forward from 22 yards and Lynx Leigh Veidman turned and fired an 8 yarder that the goalie on right at 1 yard sprawled and deflected the ball wide right of the post. The resulting cornerkick had Lynx Callum Home hit the post on a header from 12 yards. Chris Hubbard earned the shutout for the Rovers and had to be sharp towards at the end when the Lynx were pressing to score. Referee Niquita Amirkhanian controlled this game well. Besides the Red card she gave out two Yellow cards that I counted, both to Rovers players in the second half for sloppy challenges when they were tiring out. You would expect that with the Lynx having a 55 minute man advantage they would win this game but that didn't happen although they had plenty of chances--but the Rovers did too. The Rovers had played Thursday and Friday night and lost to London and Kitchener-Waterloo on this grueling roadtrip. This brings an end to the Lynx season opening home stand. They hold a record of 1 win, 3 losses. Now they have to see what they can do on the road. I could see the Lynx players weren't in a good mood and I was in a hurry to get to a CSL game that started within an hour in Brampton so I asked the Lynx stats lady some roster questions. Midfield sub Matt Osario is an older COUSIN (not brother) of MLS Toronto FC player Jonathan Osario. Midfield sub Eric Olazabal is a player who played for the TFC Academy in their first year in the CSL in 2008 with twin brother Eros. Both moved on to play for Milltown FC when they were in the CSL. Rocket Robin robing@eol.ca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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