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Result of the Tuesday July 13, 2004 CPSL game between North York Astros and St Catharines Roma Wolves played at Ontario Soccer Centre in Vaughan at 9:00pm.

North York Astros (yellow socks, amber shorts and shirts, navy numbers)

.......................12 Arthur Zaslavski
20 Cesar Pagliere...14 Kurt Ramsey...5 Peter Zorbas...22 Jermaine Johnson
19 Gariel Salguero...18 Raffy Der Bedrossian...2 Boris Krimus...5 Peter Zorbas
................4 Alen Majstorovic...11 Alex Braletic

Subs:...1 David Fish (gk)...8 Glajdi Limuci (fwd)...10 Radek Mickiewica (fwd)...13 Tyler Nesbitt (def)...15 Jaime Orozco (mid)...16 James Gideon (mid)...21 Walter Padron (def)
team officials:...manager Bruno Ierullo...coach Vittorio Villacis...assistant coaches John Melotte and Thomas Boljkovac...team director Jose Diaz

St Catharines Roma Wolves (all white, black numbers)

.......................1 Claudio Perri
...........6 Danny Gallagher...20 Pablo Politi...2 Ryan Foss
29 Anthony Stranges...10 Tony Carbonara...4 Joe Carbonara...22 Gary McGuchan...30 Geoffrey Attard
.................11 Frank Del Priore...18 Carlo Arghittu

Subs:...25 Alessandro Marone...9 Frank Zumpano...27 Joe Delpriore...23 Pablo Nievas...19 Stefan Kamendy
team officials:...manager Armand Difruscio...coach Lucio Ianiero...assistant coach Paul O'Rourke...officials Nick Riganelli and Angelo Pizzacalla

Game officials:...referee Yakov Keimakh...referee's assistants Paul Bottos and Andrew Kravets...fourth official Leo Monaco...(all black uniforms)

1st Half:...game starts 9:11pm...all times are converted from my wristwatch...Astros defend south end on this warm humid evening.
2 min...Astros Braletic run along left and cross into box cleared.
4 min...W Stranges cross from right over players in box.
6 min...W McGuchan can't quite redirect low W Stranges cross from right and his 7 yard shot deflects for cornerkick.
12 min...Astros Braletic gets through ball pass from Astros Ramsey through two defenders and low 25 yard shot is wide right.
15 min...Astros Johnson good running through center circle and passes ahead to Astros Salguero whose 30 yard shot is well high and wide right.
18 min...Astros Braletic 30 yard shot through crowd is well over net.
20 min...Astros Zorbas 35 yard cross into box has goalie pick up through ball ahead of charging Astros forward.
23 min...W player's 25 yard freekick from left is caught by goalie right side of net.
23 min...W player's cornerkick from right is over players in box.
27 min...Astros Braletic runs down left eluding defender and gets in cross near end line that charging Astros Majstorovic can't quite turn into right top corner from 5 yards.
30 min...Astros defender leaps in own box to head away cross from left.
31 min...Astros YELLOW card...Salguero for handball near center line. (W goalie had said this was the fourth time this had happened).
34 min...Astros Zorbas quick freekick finds Astros Majstorovic on edge of box. Astros Majstorovic pass to Astros Braletic and 20 yard shot on left caught by goalie on left side.
35 min...Astros Braletic runs down left and his cross is over box.
37 min...Astros Braletic leaping kick from 20 yards is well over net after cross from right.
39 min...Astros Zorbas runs on left and crosses into box. Astros Braletic one touch 20 yard shot well over net.
41 min...W player's rush down left but cross attempt over end line.
44 min...W player's 40 yard freekick from left is into box on left and cross from left end line is caught by goalie.
45 min...half ends 9:56pm.

2nd Half:...starts 10:15pm.
46 min...Astros Alex Braletic GOAL...Braletic gets through ball up middle and after short run takes low shot into left side of net from 12 yards beyond goaltender.
46 min...Astros YELLOW card...Braletic for pulling off his shirt celebrating goal.
48 min...Astros goalie catches 25 yard cross in crowd of players.
50 min...Astros Peter Zorbas GOAL...Astros Alex Braletic with ball in RW box has 12 yard shot from left that goalie Claudio Perri stops but rebound bounces out to middle for Zorbas to blast 8 yard shot into net.
52 min...Wolves Carlo Arghittu GOAL...RW Joe Carbonara freekick from right is into box and Arghittu stabs foot forward to redirect ball in from 3 yards to right corner of net.
53 min...Astros defender clears ball off goalline.
54 min...W McGuchan can't connect cross from right while standing alone on left post.
55 min...W sub...Kamendy replaces Politi.
57 min...W McGuchan 25 yard freekick is over wall of players and wide left of net.
59 min...Astros work ball out from left sideline into W box but ball pushed too far forward and goalie picks it up.
62 min...W player in Astros box one touches ball but pops shot high and well wide left.
62 min...W sub...Zumpano replaces DelPriore.
64 min...Wolves Gary McCuchan GOAL...McCuchan gets to ball in Astros box and 18 yard shot rolls through crowd of players in box and beyond diving goalie Arthur Zaslavski near right post. Carlo Arghittu had done much of the work to get him the ball.
66 min...W Arghittu heads 5 yard shot over net.
67 min...W Attard 25 yard blast is well over net.
69 min...Astros Ramsey 60 yard freekick over crowd of players and goalie catches in box.
70 min...Astros Majstorovic 25 yard shot has flying goalie push wide right of post.
72 min...Astros Thompson on right with high 25 yard lob has leaping goalie catch on right post.
73 min...W sub...Marone replaces Gallagher.
.............W sub...Del Priore replaces someone.
75 min...Astros Salguero cross from right is caught by goalie.
76 min...Astros sub...Gideon replaces Majstorovic.
76 min...Astros Zorbas 55 yard freekick on left bounced to charging goalie on edge of box.
77 min...W Zumpano run on right and cross has goalie leap to catch in crowd of players.
78 min...W goal called back offside as last W man touched it where as goal would have counted if he'd left it roll in.
79 min...Astros Zorbas 30 yard shot is caught by goalie.
81 min...W sub...Nievas replaces McGuchan.
83 min...W Nievas 30 yard shot from left is palmed over net on left post.
88 min...Astros sub...Padron replaces Zorbas.
90 min...Astros YELLOW card...Johnson for getting foot in on W Arghittu injurying him. Johnson was the last man back.
91 min...W Joe Carbonara 30 yard freekick has ball deflect off head of charging Astros player. W Attard gets header to W Zumpano who heads ball over net from 5 yards.
93 min...Astros Alex Braletic GOAL...Astros Boris Krimus in middle from 40 yards stutter steps on his run and rolls pass forward to Braletic who dekes goalie and defender to push ball into open net from 7 yards.
93 min...game ends 11:04pm.

Final Score:........North York Astros...........3.............St Catharines Roma Wolves...........2...........

Attendance was about 50 on this warm, very humid evening that brought all the mosquitoes out of the swamp for the second half.

After the scoreless first half, I was prepared for that to be the final score for these evenly matched teams. Wolves manager Armand Difruscio said the Astros goals were all the result of defensive mistakes and tonight their defense looked suspect finding it often difficult to clear the ball from their end.

Alex Braletic had a great game with chances for six goals tonight. He's only 17 years old and originally from Montenegro (once part of Yugoslavia). He played for part of the Astros season last year.

Wolves almost won this at 79 minutes when they had a goal called back for offside. A Wolves player off to the side of the left post touched the ball on a shot bound for the net but leaving it alone and therefore not being part of the play wouldn't have drawn the referee's assistant's flag.

The fear that this late starting game could not be completed by 11:00pm when the stadium lights were supposedly timed to cut off was not realized as they were still on well after the game. This was probably a rumour started by a groundskeeper at the beginning of the year to hurry the crowd out of the stands so he could lock the door and head home.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca

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