ARSENAL AND STORM WIN EASILY TUESDAY NIGHT TO ADVANCE TO ISL SEMIFINALS AT NATIONAL STADIUM
THE ARSENAL AND STORM BOTH SCORED 11 GOALS. THE ARSENAL WERE LED BY CECOY ROBINSON’S FOUR GOALS TO WIN 11-3 MINUTE OVER THE TITANS, AND THE STORM GOT HAT TRICKS FROM DOMICO CODDINGTON AND KWAME STEEDE IN THEIR 11-4 ROMP OVER THE UNION.
GAME ONE WAS TIGHT AT THE BEGINNING. THE ARSENAL SCORED FIRST WHEN DEFENDER IJAHMON MALLORY SCORED ON AN ASSIST FROM FABIAN FRANKSON IN THE SECOND MINUTE OF THE GAME. MIKRE PACE NOTCHED THINGS AT 1-1 TAKING A FEED FROM KWANDE LATHAN AND BEATING ARSENAL GK JASON SMITH. LATHAN GAVE THE TITANS THEIR ONLY LEAD OF THE GAME SECONDS LATER WHEN HE BEAT SMITH ON A RESTART GOAL FROM A BAD ANGLE JUST INSIDE THE YELLOW LINE. THE TITANS LED 2-1 AFTER ONE QUARTER. ARSENAL WOULD DOMINATE THE SECOND QUARTER. MALLORY NOTCHED HIS SECOND OF THE GAME WHEN HE SCORCHED A RESTART PAST TITANS GK SEAN PERINCHIEF. CORNELL CASTLE GOT THE ARSENAL THE LEAD BACK ON AN ASSIST FROM DAZ SIMONS, AND RIGHT BEFORE THE HALF MICHAEL PARSONS CRUSHED A LEFT FOOTED SHOT THAT ELUDED PERINCHIEF AND GAVE ARSENAL A TWO GOAL HALFTIME CUSHION 4-2. KWANDE LATHAN GOT ONE BACK FOR THE TITANS IN THE FIRST MINUTE OF THE THIRD QUARTER. LATHAN FINISHED OFF A TITANS 3-2 OPPORTUNITY WHEN HE RECEIVED A PASS ON THE LEFT WING AND PATIENTLY WAITED FOR ARSENAL GOALKEEPER NIGEL BURGESS TO COMMIT. ONCE HE DID LATHAN SLIPPED A SHOT UNDERNEATH THE SPRAWLING KEEPER TO CUT THE LEAD TO 4-3. IT WAS ALL ARSENAL FROM THERE. THE CELL ONE RED DIVISION RUNNERS UP TALLIED THE LAST SEVEN GOALS OF THE MATCH. IT STARTED WITH CECOY ROBINSON’S GOAL FROM 40 FEET. CORNELL CASTLE SCORED ON A SHOOTOUT TO MAKE IT 6-3. MICHAEL PARSONS CONVERTED A FANTASTIC HEADER, AND ROBINSON SCORED SECONDS LATER TO MAKE IT 8-3. WHEN RALPH BEAN CONVERTED A ROBINSON CORNER KICK THE ROUTE WAS ON AND IT WAS 9-3 AFTER THREE QUARTERS. ROBINSON WOULD TALLY TWICE MORE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER TO FINISH UP HIS FOUR GOAL NIGHT AND GIVE THE ARSENAL AN EASY 11-3 WIN. THE ARSENAL WILL FACE THE KINGS IN THURSDAY NIGHT’S FIRST SEMIFINAL MATCHUP.
GAME TWO WAS ALL STORM FROM THE START. IT TOOK A WHILE BUT KWAME STEEDE SCORED IN THE EIGHTH MINUTE OF THE FIRST QUARTER ON AN ASSIST FROM OTTIS MINORS. IT WAS THE ONLY GOAL OF THE FIRST QUARTER BUT THE STORM WERE POISED TO EXPLODE AND THEY DID WITH THREE GOALS IN THE SECOND QUARTER. MINORS SCORED A GOAL OF HIS OWN THREE MINUTES IN AND DOMICO CODDINGTON GOT ON THE SHEET SECONDS LATER ON AN ASSIST FROM STEEDE. KEVIN LAMBE CLOSED OUT THE SCORING IN THE 11TH MINUTE WITH A RESTART GOAL AND IT WAS ALL STORM 4-0 AT THE HALF. CHRIS CAISEY KEPT THINGS GOING FOR STORM, TALLYING JUST SECONDS INTO THE THIRD QUARTER. BLENN BEAN FINALLY GOT UNION ON THE BOARD IN THE EIGHTH MINUTE, BUT CODDINGTON WOULD ANSWER TO MINUTES LATER TO RESTORE THE STORM’S FIVE GOAL LEAD. KAMEN TUCKER WOULD SINGLE HANDEDLY TRY TO KEEP UNION IN THE GAME. HE SCORED WITH JUST SECONDS LEFT IN THE THIRD, THEN FOLLOWED WITH ANOTHER GOAL SIX MINUTES INTO THE FOURTH QUARTER TO CUT THE STORM LEAD TO 6-3. BUT EVERYTIME THE UNION WOULD GET CLOSE THE STORM WOULD ANSWER. THIS TIME IT WAS KWAME STEEDE WITH A BEAUTIFUL FINISH TO MAKE IT 7-3. UNION’ S LEADING SCORER LASHUN DILL WOULD FINALLY MAKE THE SHEET SECONDS LATER, BUT IT WAS WAY TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. THE STORM SCORED THE LAST FOUR GOALS OF THE GAME AS CODDINGTON AND STEEDE COMPLETED THEIR HAT TRICKS TO GIVE STORM AN 11-4 ROMP OVER THE UNION. THE STORM TAKE ON THE KNIGHTS IN THURSDAY NIGHT’S SECOND SEMIFINAL MATCH.
SCORING SUMMARIES:
ARSENAL VS. TITANS
1ST QUARTER
ARSENAL IJAHMON MALLORY 2ND MINUTE 1-0
TITANS MIKRE PACE 11TH MINUTE 1-1
TITANS KWONDE LATHAN 12TH MINUTE 2-1
2ND QUARTER
ARSENAL IJAHMON MALLORY 4TH MINUTE 2-2
ARSENAL CORNELL CASTLE JR. 5TH MINUTE 3-2
ARSENAL MICHAEL PARSONS 14TH MINUTE 4-2
3RD QUARTER
TITANS KWONDE LATHAN 1ST MINUTE 4-3
ARSENAL CECOY ROBINSON 6TH MINUTE 5-3
ARSENAL CORNELL CASTLE 7TH MINUTE 6-3
ARSENAL MICHAEL PARSONS 11TH MINUTE 7-3
ARSENAL CECOY ROBINSON 12TH MINUTE 8-3
ARSENAL RALPH BEAN JR. 14TH MINUTE 9-3
4TH QUARTER
ARSENAL CECOY ROBINSON 1ST MINUTE 10-3
ARSENAL CECOY ROBINSON 4TH MINUTE 11-3
STORM VS. UNION
1ST QUARTER
STORM KWAME STEEDE 8TH MINUTE 1-0
2ND QUARTER
STORM OTTIS MINORS 3RD MINUTE 2-0
STORM DOMICO CODDINGTON 4TH MINUTE 3-0
STORM KEVIN LAMBE 11TH MINUTE 4-0
3RD QUARTER
STORM CHRIS CAISEY 1ST MINUTE 5-0
UNION BLENN BEAN 8TH MINUTE 5-1
STORM DOMICO CODDINGTON 10TH MINUTE 6-1
UNION KAMEN TUCKER 14TH MINUTE 6-2
4TH QUARTER
UNION KAMEN TUCKER 6TH MINUTE 6-3
STORM KWAME STEEDE 8TH MINUTE 7-3
UNION LASHUN DILL 8TH MINUTE 7-4
STORM DOMICO CODDINGTON 9TH MINUTE 8-4
STORM JAMES CURRIE 11TH MINUTE 9-4
STORM KWAME STEEDE 12TH MINUTE 10-4
STORM GRANT MCKELLAR 14TH MINUTE 11-4
ROSTERS:
ARSENAL TITANS STORM UNION
1 JASON SMITH 1 SEAN PERINCHIEF 1 JASON SIMONS 1 TREADIE GIBBONS
1 NIGEL BURGESS 3 ZEKO WHITE 2 DMITRI BUTTERFIELD 2 KAMEN TUCKER
5 IJAHMON MALLORY 5 JHAN KHAN 5 JAMES CURRIE 4 JASON FURBERT
6 DAZ SIMONS 6 KWONDE LATHAN 9 GRANT MCKELLAR 5 SHAKII PEARMAN
8 MICHAEL PARSONS 8 TYRONE FUBLER 10 DOMICO CODDINGTON 6 TOKIA RUSSELL
9 PIERRE SMITH 9 KYLE JONES 11 CHRIS CAISEY 8 OMAR SHAKIR
10 CECOY ROBINSON 10 MIKRE PACE 14 OTTIS MINORS 10 KEEMO SMITH
11 FABIAN FRANKSON 11 LONNIE BASCOME 15 KEVIN LAMBE 11 LASHUN DILL
13 KEITH MARTINS 12 LLEWELYN SIMONS 16 COREY DOWLING 12 JAHMEL SWANN
15 CORNELL CASTLE JR. 15 THOMAS BROWN 17 KWAME STEEDE 13 BLENN BEAN
16 HOPDE BURROUGHS 17 ANTHONY ROCKER 31 DANIEL ADAMS 17 SHAWN BROWN
17 RALPH BEAN JR. ------------------------------- ------------------------ ----------------------------
