CNSL League game Sunday June 9th, 1996
Here are the details of the CNSL game played Sunday June 9th, 1996 at 7pm between Toronto Italia and Scarborough Astros at Rainbow Creek Park in Woodbridge. This was considered a League game.
Toronto Italia (blue socks and shirts, white shorts and numbers)
.................................................1 Joe Ciaravino
.............4 Richard Alexander 3 Franco Spadafina 5 Tom Perks
6 Jack Zomparelli 7 Miguel Ferreira 20 Nick Maxwell 11 Marco Antonucci (cpt) 2 John Annisi
...............................23 Phil Caporrella 15 Steve Spizzirri
subs: 00 Mihyal Mike Ivanescu 9 Ryan Gamble 12 Tony Zanini 14 Babak Ghiravanian 18 Michael Glasgow
Scarborough Astros (yellow socks and shirts, blue shorts and numbers)
......................................................1 Bernardo Velha
.................4 John DiBuono 2 Andrew Czahin 10 Mike Marshall
8 Alex Nardi 5 Leo Lopez 3 Rene Martin (cpt) 7 Gad Espinosa 6 Dave Dedonato
.......................................9 Audley Taffe 11 Devon Kenlock
Subs: 16 Samson Oshunrinde 12 Laszlo Szasz 13 Alin Ratam 14 Kerwin Skeete 15 Marco Bonofiglio
Officials: ref Russ Hepworth, linespeople Norma Clark and Isaac Mata
1st Half
Toronto defends south goal, Weather overcast but not raining. There was no sound truck this week so no national anthems nor announcements given throughout the game.
6min Tor Caporella receives header and his spinning shot goes weakly to goalie.
7 min Scar Dedonato gets leg injury and is subbed by Skeete. He's still limping at halftime.
12 min Scar shot wide from 20 yards.
14 min Tor Caporrella gets break but shot to his right is smothered.
15 min Scar yellow to DiBuono as Caporrella is pulled down while breaking through.
20 min Tor Spizzirri directs centering cross wide.
23 min Scar Antonucci gets tap at ball squeezed through crowd but easy save made.
24 min Tor GOAL Annisi is knocked down but Caporrella allowed to play through on the advantage rule and takes low shot to left corner.
25 min Scar Kenlock hits one from air well wide from 25 yards.
26 min Scar goalie has to make tricky catch.
27 min Scar yellow to Martin for slashing out at Spizzirri who stays down with injury.
29 min scramble after free kick and Tor Ferreira takes ball in stomach.
34 min Scar yellow to Lopez for knockdown.
39 min Tor yellow to Perks for pulling down Taffe trying to break away.
40 min Scar Espinosa's low freekick grabbed by diving goalie on cover.
45 min Tor Caporrella injured but game carried on for a minute until ball was kicked out of bounds.
1st half Toronto Italia 1 Scarborough Astros 0
2nd half:
50 min Tor yellow card to Zomparelli.
55 min Tor GOAL. goalie way out of net misplays ball and Caporrella beats him to it. ball rolls in from 20 yards.
56 min Tor sub Zanini replaces Caporrella injured in the goal. Goalie was also injured on play.
58 min Scar Lopez injured when tripped up.
61 min Tor Antonucci receives centering pass and shoots low and wide right.
Just after this the ball was kicked out of bounds over the east wire fence. The ball rolled down the embankment of Rainbow Creek and right into the water where it was carried away by the swift current caused by all the rain we had in the last week. The creek had swelled to about seven yards wide and the ball was just out of reach of some kids trying to rescue it with sticks. They finally got the ball back about 200 yards downstream. Of course the officials had restarted the game with a spare ball while all this was going on. The ball also soared over the west stands about three times and klunked off car hoods in the parking lot.
65 min Scar sub Oshunrinde for Skeete.
67 min Scar Marshall blasts sitter high from only 10 yards.
77 min Tor sub Gamble replaces Spizzirri.
................another player injured #4 can't remember which team and ref warns both teams.
82 min Scar sub Bonofiglio replaces Lopez.
83 min Tor Ferreira takes bullet freekick from 30 yards over wall and goalie punches out.
85 min Tor sub Glasgow replaces Ferreira.
86 min Tor goalie punches away goalie.
87 min Tor GOAL Gamble in alone after receiving bouncing pass from Spadafina and kicks it over goalie trapped 15 to 20 yards out into net.
89 min Scar Oshunrinde knocks down Maxwell causing injury.
90 min Scar Espinosa injured in legs. Ratam subs for him.
95 min Tor GOAL Gamble bounces pass goalie gets foot on it well outside box but Gamble takes it off him and boots shot into open net.
100 min Ref finally stops game.
Final score: Toronto Italia 4 Scarborough Astros 0
Attendance was about 200 people. It looked like it would rain at any time. The mosquitos were out in force and were bothering the players on the bench.
It was a rough game. Referee Hepworth had been a linesman at the Canada-Costa Rica on Wednesday. The ref in that game had been blasted by the press for whistling every foul and dive. Of course this game didn't look as bad but only as compared to Wednesday's fiasco. Hepworth added 10 minutes to the second half; no reason for that much injury time and the extra minutes in this game with the game score out of hand led to it being full of chippy play.