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Standings,
results and other stats
Sebastian
Ralph Alvarado scored seven minutes from time at Tibbet Park last
Sunday to clinch a 3-2 win for Pancyprian Freedoms and hand new
Lansdowne Bhoys player-coach Tommy McMenemy his first loss.
McMenemy, in his third match in charge, created both Lansdowne goals
-- converted by Guy Stampur (35th) and defender David Duffy (70th)
-- after Stelios Andreou (1st) and Yiannis Antonas (15th) had shot
the Greek-Cypriots ahead.
The Irishmen appeared worthy of a draw but with time winding down,
Alvarado struck to consign the Irishmen to their fourth defeat.
Lansdowne
president Izhar Harpaz was hardly disappointed by the Herculean
effort his lads put in. “We gave the Pancyprians a run for
their money,” he said.
Said the victors’ George Halkidis: “Although we were missing
four starters to injury it was a tough game (on) a bad
muddy pitch, with the Pancyprians deserving the win (for) having
the better scoring chances.”
POLES HELD
Pancyprian (4-1-1, 13) moved to within a point of First Division
(East) leaders Polonia who had Pietor Jurazek (80th) to thank for
a 1-1 tie with CD Iberia at Francis Lewis High School.
Iberia coach David Lago was left ruing a lost opportunity.
“We let three points slip away by not capitalizing on our chances,”
he said, counting a total of four shots that came off the woodwork
-- three of them after Victor Antowaan (30th) had given Iberia the
lead.
Beaten 2-0 in the reserve encounter, Iberia (3-2-1, 10) dropped
one rung into fourth place, behind New York Greek-American/Atlas
on goal difference.
FURY STOKED
Greek-Atlas beat New York Fury 3-0 at Cardoza High School on 16-year
vet Paul Grafas’ brace and a strike by Roger Cambridge.
While conceding defeat, Fury’s Spencer Dormitzer was left fuming
over the officiating in both matches.
“What was very apparent, (in) the reserve game as well as the
first’s, was the blatant bias shown by the refs,” Dormitzer
charged.
Atlas’ reserves prevailed 6-4.
NYAC RULE
New York Athletic Club (5-1, 15) claimed the best record in the
CSL upper echelon with a 3-1 win over Central Park Rangers in their
top-of-the-table tussle at the Metropolitan Oval.
Ladd Fritz (two) and Graham Albert extended NYAC’s lead over
second place CPR to five points. Pedro Chain scored for CPR.
“With some key players missing we still gave the league leaders
a tough game,” said CPR manager Yuval Lion.
NYAC took the reserve meeting 2-0.
WOEFUL KICKERS
Andy Abramovits (72nd) and Giancarlo Cavallo (85th) deepened Manhattan
Kickers’ woes by leading Barnstonworth Rovers to a 2-0 victory
at Ichan Stadium.
“Kickers were not to the standard; we played with six reserve
players and still beat them,” said Rovers’ Stavros Zomopoulos.
“We just did not play well as a team,” observed Kickers
player-coach Mike Fitzgerald.
Second from the bottom in the West, Kickers fell to 1-41 (4), a
point above last place New York Albanians.
ALBERTINI MILESTONE
In the curtain-raiser at Ichan, old lion Jerome Albertini tallied
twice -- the latter his 60th goal for Barnstonworth -- as Rovers’
reserves triumphed
4-1. Shadi Shahrokhi and Alfonso Nanclares were the other marksmen.
ITALIANS FALL
Also, in the First Division, Brooklyn Italians’ Javier Panteleon
scored in a surprise 2-1 loss to West bottom side New York Albanians.
BULGARIA STUNNED
NIFA, inspired by double scorers Philip Roche and Reginald Joseph,
stunned leaders FC Bulgaria 4-3 to throw the race in Division Two
wide open.
George Iltchev (20th, 40th pen.) and Galin Andreev (75th) had the
Bulgarians ahead at every turn before Joseph sank them.
“A very poor performance,” summed up goalie Koko Veltchev,
who assumed his old striking role for the reserves and connected
in a 3-1 win.
NIFA (3-2-1, 10) climbed into third position, two points adrift
of Bulgaria and one behind FC Japan who also came a cropper
to Stal Mielec.
JAPAN STUNNED
Mariusz Nejman (two) and Sylwester Godlewski starred in Stal’s
3-0 romp over Japan, the latter’s first defeat.
The
reserves tied 2-2.
CELTIC
RELIEF
Manhattan Celtic held off Astoria Gaels 2-1 at Chelsea Pier 40 on
first half goals by Jeff Evan (20th) and David Linn (40th).
Derek McKenna (60th) was on target for Gaels.
Celtic’s reserved won 3-0.
YOUTHFUL KANDIA
Colin Hemmings’ youthful Kandia outgunned Central Park Rangers
5-3 at the Met Oval – the Jamaicans’ first road win in
18 months.
Kemar Henry, who’s 19, and ex-CPR man Juan Colmenaras had Kandia
2-0 up at the interval. CPR, with the wind behind them, stormed
back to tie it 2-2, but goals from Howard Benjamin, 17 year-old
Ghanaian Eric Kyere and Kemar Green saw off the home side.
“This is a win that we ground out. We showed guts,” said
coach Hemmings, who had kudos for right fullback Phil Rhamdass,
18, for two “exquisite” assists.
At Red Hook, Jaro Munoz had a brace in Koha’s 3-2 defeat by
Banatul. The Koha seconds triumphed 7-0.
GOTTSCHEE DEUCE
A goal in each half by Maiber Polanco (35th pen.) and Carmillo Franko
(70th) kept BW Gottschee (5-1, 15) five points clear atop the Metro
Div. 1 (West) standings. They beat Clarkstown 2-0 at Queens Children’s
Hospital.
“In making some key saves, Jesse Montero picked up the shutout
for Gottschee,” John Krische complimented his goalie.
INFINITY STOPPED
Bartek Kamionka (5th), Marcin Trzaska (70th, 75th) and Adam Maliniak
(90th) led second place Ukrainans past New York City Infinity All-Stars
at McCarran Park.
SIX-SHOOTER
Scott Capuzzo (three), Brendan Watkins (two) and Jon Davidson scripted
ASA McCarthy’s second win of the season, a 6-1 thrashing of
Hoboken FC 1912 at the Overpeck Field.
Neal Ventola
(12th) had Hoboken’s face-saver.
WANDEROUS EFFORT
Peter Czerepak’s strike, off a great assist by Stephen Anderson,
earned middle-of-the-table New York Wanderers a 1-all draw with
unbeaten Metro Div. 1 (East) leaders Guyana Juniors.
DEADLY
DAN
Dan McNally’s second brace in a row powered Mr. Dennehy’s
past fellow Metro Div. 2 rookies NY’s Finest 4-0 at Flushing
Meadow Park.
Gerry Smith and an own goal accounted for the rest of the damage.
GUTSY GOTHAM
Battling the elements and a flooded, rock-strewn field, Gotham Argo
produced a late blitz to breach a two-goal deficit and defeat Athletiko
FC 4-2 in Metro Div. 2.
Jason Cyrus, Kurt Fischer, Luis DeMatos and CP DeVera struck deep
in the second half while goalie Julio Diaz pulled off two superb
saves to hold off Athletiko.
OMM NINERS
At DiMeola Field, OMM thrashed New York Wanderers 9-3 for
the biggest win in the CSL on the day.
Keoma Nascimento (two), Justin Sherman (two), Luke Apicella, Walter
Bianco, Nick Salinas, Desmond Gomes and Marcos Nascimeto scored.
EINTRACHT FIRST
SC Eintracht came away from the Metropolitan Oval with their first
win in Metro Div. II, 3-1 at the expense of New York Enforcers.
Jason Walls, Adam Windwer and Jason Careri tallied.
SITTING PAT
Patrick Toomey converted a long ball from Eder Sala in
FC Partizani’s 1-1 tie with Zenit.
ROCK SLIDE
Unbeaten in the ‘B’ Division prior to the previous week’s
3-1 loss to SC Gjoa, Shamrock crashed to their second successive
defeat when East leaders Guyana Veterans ‘A’ blanked them
4-0 at the Parade Ground.
Chris Giles (three) and Kestor Darlington upped Guyana’s record
to 4-0-1 (13). Gjoa (10) and Pele Masters (9), second and third,
respectively, in the East, tied 1-1 after Glendon George’s
second half leveler for Pele.
SISTER ACT
Delon Thon had a hat trick at the Con Edison field where Guyana
Veterans’ ‘B’ beat Maltese Dolphins 4-2. Nigel Allen
also scored.
BARNSTORMING
West frontrunners Barnstonworth Premier had six different scorers
in a methodical 6-2 drubbing of Argo Silver that preserved their
one hundred percent record after five games.
Paul Cann (82nd) had a goal and assists on Colin Reid’s
ice-breaker (9th) and Ben Weiner’s coup de grace (88th); while
Nedgy Nazon (53rd) also weighed in with a goal and an assist on
Peter Best’s strike on the hour.
Andre Honore (14th), assisted by Andy Horan, was the other
marksman. Chivon Thornhill set up Nazon’s goal, while Marlon
Johnson assisted on Cann’s.
HIGH FIVE
Eintracht improved to 4-0 and stayed on Barnstonworth’s heels
with a 5-1 trouncing of New York Greek-Amercian/Atlas at the Met
Oval.
Tommy Stumpf and Torsten Holmes both tallied twice, while Doczy
Bundy claimed the fifth. Nick Kokosis had Atlas’ face-saver.
“We played a darn good game,” said John Steigerwald.
BARNSTORMING II
The Barnstonworth franchise completed a clean sweep in the Cosmopolitan
league at the weekend.
In addition to the victories over Kickers and Argo Silver, there
was a 1-0 John Keogh inspired win by Rovers’ other Over-30
team over New York Croatia and a 3-0 shutout of Westchester FC by
the Rovers Old Boys.
Brian McLaughlin, James Rogers and Gordon Whiteside scored
in that game.
RIDGEWOOD DERBY
Michael Giacabone (55th, 85th) and Zoran Vukosavjevic (70th) pegged
back Sergio Giovanni’s opener as BW Gottschee topped GH Metros
3-1 at Queens Children’s Hospital.
“We lost the Ridgewood derby,” said Metros official Helmut
Kofler.
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