LOGJAM ATOP HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' SOCCER LEAGUE
By BRIAN SMILEY, Expositor Staff
Picture by Christopher Smith, Expositor Staff
BRANTFORD _ The plot thickens in Brant County boys' high school soccer action.
Entering play on Tuesday, Paris District High School was alone in first place
with a 2-0 record. Today, the PDHS Panthers, who lost 3-0 to Brantford Collegiate
Institute, are joined at the top of the standings by North Park Collegiate,
who edged St. John's College 1-0, and BCI.
Pauline Johnson Collegiate, which tied Assumption College 1-1, now has a
1-1-1 record while SJC is in fifth place at 1-2. Assumption, last year's
defending champions, are last at 0-2-1.
``It looked like it would be wide open but I'm a little surprised,'' said
North Park coach Gerry Vitiello when asked if he expected the standings to
be this tight and have the look they do. ``I think all the teams have a good
mixture of players and it depends on who puts them together best.
``You're not getting the situation where one team has 12 OACs on the field.''
St. John's coach Peter Pomponio echoed Vitiello's comments.
``The gap is really narrow,'' he said. ``There's not much difference between
the first and sixth place teams.''
When Vitiello's Trojans faced Pomponio's Green Eagles, the closeness of the
two teams was evident as the score was 0-0 at the half.
Around the 10 minute mark of the second half, Bartect Hecht took a pass from
Shawn Sandhu and put the ball behind the St. John's keeper for the only goal
of the game.
``Both teams had four or five good scoring chances,'' said Vitiello. ``We
just managed to capitalize on one of ours.''
``We had opportunities to score, some real good chances to score, and we
didn't capitalize,'' said Pomponio.
Evan Cooper got the shutout for North Park while Joel Smith, Joey Jenkins,
Sam Menhinick and Sandhu were outstanding. Rich Melski and Wes Whitlock responded
with great efforts for the Green Eagles.
PDHS at BCI
BCI and PDHS now have identical 2-1 records after the Mustangs shut out the
Panthers 3-0.
Jesse Jenkins scored a pair of goals for BCI while Yohan Kagoma scored the
other. Ryan Marcella and Matt Allman shared the shutout. Noel Campbell, Josh
Overhoff, Graham Guillemette and Greg Jones led the Mustangs on defence while
Chris Howes led the offence.
Chris Dragos and Jay Kielec were outstanding offensively for the Panthers.
Jason Hall, Josh Speagle, Adam Hall and Matt Holmes played great defence.
ACS at PJC
The Lions (0-2-1) and T-Birds (1-1-1) played to a 1-1 tie with Richard Yeoman
scoring for Assumption and Mark Hoogkamp responding for PJC.
David Hanley, Derek Ullman, Mark Skrzyniarz and Mike Poos were standouts
for the Lions. James Hake, Matt Hoogkamp and Jesse Jamieson responded with
excellent play for the T-Birds.
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