Astros starters
Result of the Saturday July 25, 2009 CSL game between North York Astros and Italia Shooters played at Downsview Park in North York at 3:00pm.
10 min…Shooters (Astros own goal) GOAL…Shooters Kadian Lecky cross from 12 yards on right has sliding Astros Alex Kawalit redirect ball into own net from 10 yards.
15 min…Shooters Kadian Lecky GOAL…Shooters Alvaro Yaques rolls ball up middle from 30 yards and Lecky gets ball at 20 yards and blasts 15 yarder up middle under bar in center of net.
40 min…Shooters Kadian Lecky GOAL…Shooters rush on left and shoots over sliding goalie Arthur Zaslavski at 15 yards into low center of net.
60 min…Astros Diego Benzi GOAL…Astros player taps back freekick from only 6 yards and Benzi blasts low 12 yard shot that deflects off defender’s leg into left corner of net with goalie Camilo Benzi (his brother I heard) lost in the crowd of players.
65 min…Shooters Geron Duporte GOAL…Duporte low 18 yards shot from right into left corner of net behind diving goalie.
Final Score:……….North York Astros……..1……..Italia Shooters………4……….
Attendance was about 60 people with almost half in their cars parked in the endzone watching the game like a drive-in movie. The rain downpour started about 30 minutes before the game and lasted well after the game was over. I couldn’t watch the game from the press tent as I couldn’t see either net from my angle so I watched the end of the first half and the entire second from my own car. I didn’t care about the rain as I had my umbrella but I couldn’t hold it and make notes. Rogers community channel was filming the game for broadcast at 8:00pm but I don’t get cable so I’ll have to wait weeks to see the torrent to make better notes like substitutes and he took shots at the other end of the field after the season is over.
The game was played on artificial turf but was a ditch full of water on one of the sidelines. I may have made the broadcast fetching a ball that was floating on it in the second half. The hard rain definitely effected play. The rain had two settings “Hard” and “Harder”.
New players for teams:…Shooters had MLS/USL/CPSL veteran Rick Titus to stabilize their defence. Astros have 2008 CSL Rookie of the Year (he won it while playing for TFC Academy) as a midfielder on their team.
Shooters help their own cause opening another three points further away from the 9th and 10th place teams Astros and London City. Regardless of divisions, only two teams don’t make the playoffs.
This game had been moved from Esther Shiner Stadium because of the City of Toronto workers’ strike which now has lasted over a month.
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Astros starters
Shooters starters
Shooters freekick
Shooters Nick Cisternino on edge of Astros box.
Astros Phil Rivers clears ball from box.
Astros Nick Miodrag freekick near sideline.
Astros freekick from 10 yards inside Shooters box.
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