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Result of the Wednesday September 22nd, 2004 CPSL game between Metro Lions and Hamilton Thunder played at Birchmount Stadium in Scarborough at 7:00pm.
Metro Lions (white socks and shirts, navy shorts, red numbers)
.....................00 Courtney Campbell
..........14 Kevin Ricketts...23 Chris Handsor...4 Marc Jankovic
9 Darryl Gomez...13 Kareem Reynolds...7 Caswain Mason...6 Ainsley Romany...10 Hayden Fitzwilliams
...................11 Gabriel Salustius...20 Maxim Dorneval
Subs:...22 Marko Janjicek...12 Mishel Levkov...3 Owen Mitchell...18 Billy Ninopoulos...19 Craig Patton
team officials:...manager/coach Goran Miscevic...assitant coach B Bratic...officials Ken Molleneau and A Sulkowski
Hamilton Thunder (all navy, white numbers)
......................1 Roberto Ferrari (cpt)
2 Mersad Ahmetovic...4 Igor Cvetovic...7 Bekava Blazenko...15 Giovanni Annisi
9 Michael DiLuca...5 Adrian Ramos...16 Courtney Dennis...19 Alex Arbelo
................22 Charles Gbeke...23 Kevin Nelson
Subs:...25 Bosko Borjan...13 Mirza Mehic...10 Matthew O'Connor
team officials:...trainer Gareth Savage...coach George Armua...assistant coach Sasa Milaimovic...sports director Miro Marjanovic...official Enes Mehic
Game officials:...referee Frank Marciello...referee's assistants Vito Curalli and Isaac Raymond...fourth official Afshin Korkorian...(red shirts, black shorts and socks)...match observer Renato Da Costa
1st Half:...game starts 7:15pm...Lions defend north end.
4 min...Thunder player held back in Lions box and referee Frank Marciello whistles for a Penalty kick.
5 min...Thunder Bekava Blazenko GOAL...Blazenko blasts penalty shot to left after stagger stepping, goalie Courtney Campbell gets hand to it and pushes ball up but ball deflects off crossbar and drops into net.
7 min...HT Gbeke 30 yard blast over net.
10 min...ML Salustius rush on right and bends kick that goalie flies back to push wide.
11 min...ML Fitzwilliams cornerkick from right is rolled through box.
12 min...ML Reynolds 20 yards kick through crowd of players low and wide left of net.
13 min...HT DiLuca 30 yard freekick from right is short and stopped by first defender.
13 min...ML Salustius rush to left for through ball and sliding HT Cvetovic prevents cross from near end line.
18 min...ML Gomez 25 yard freekick from left is deflected by player in wall, ball partially cleared and whistled offside.
20 min...HT Gbeke heads away cornerkick from left, ML Romany blasts partial clearance from 25 yards well over net.
22 min...ML Handsor 60 yard ball into box caught by goalie.
23 min...ML Reynolds 30 yard freekick from left has ML player climb defender's back to head 5 yarder over net but play whistled down.
27 min...HT Nelson rush to through ball on left and 25 yard shot is wide right of net.
28 min...ML Fitzwilliams dribbles through middle past three guys and passes through to ML Dorneval on right who kicks ball wide.
30 min...Thunder Giovanni Annisi trips Lions Hayden Fitzwilliams running into Thunder box. Referee whistles for a Penalty kick. Initially it looked like Annisi was sent off but it wasn't a red card, just to treat a bloody nose.
31 min...Lions Darryl Gomez GOAL...Gomez blasts Penalty kick to low left and goalie Robert Ferrari dives left to get hands to it but can't quite push ball wide left.
36 min...ML player's 30 yard freekick from left is headed away by HT defender.
38 min...HT forward works play along end line, ML partial clearance has HT Dennis completely miss ball on 18 yard shot attempt.
39 min...HT YELLOW card...DiLuca for mouthing off after whistle in own end.
40 min...HT Gbeke injured just outside center circle.
43 min...ML Gomez 30 yard freekick from left has goalie fly to left to block ball from top left corner.
43 min...HT Gbeke cross from left has ball curve to goalie.
44 min...ML Mason 35 yard shot over net.
46 min...HT Gbeke run on right and 25 yard roller blocked by sprawling goalie.
47 min...HT Arbelo 35 yard freekick from left has ball crossed from right has ML Romany clear 3 yarder over net.
48 min...HT player can't get away shot in ML box on three attempts with players falling all around.
48 min...half ends 8:03pm.
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