Top contenders CPU and Ridgepoint Bruins tied 2-2 at Brothers Park last Sunday in men's league soccer action.
CPU fullback Pat Braithwaite's metal cleats must have affected the deviation of his mental compass as he headed home a perfect header 180 degrees in the wrong direction, though striker Eoin Walker claims it was his shot that was simply expertly banked. Ridgepoint's second came as Mike Husband bobbed and weaved his way to the goal mouth, while for CPU, Ken Campbell threaded an impossibly angled needle, and Fumi Takahashi assaulted the crossbar on a free kick that was patty-caked over the line by Kurt Vernon.
Sitas' United FC showed more pizzazz with a 3-1 win over Halfmoon Bay.
Jesse Morantz ran at Sita's keeper Rich Getzkow multiple times, their contest dramatically described by an excited onlooker as "an unstoppable force against an immovable object." Morantz did put one of his three runs into the net for Halfmoon Bay, while Sita's strikes came from Dan Sullivan, Ryan Elphick and Dave Nanson. When asked to comment on the 6-3 Pender Harbour Bananas win over Fusion and recent upswing in fortunes, a ferry-boarding, iPhone-at-his-ear Rod Kammerle was too busy to comment, but winked and clicked his tongue as though it was all in a Sunday's soccer.
In the women's league, Fusion played a great match against Mayhem though went down 3-1, with a sassy little chip from Leslie Cooper.
Xenichen Ya Yas won 2-0 against Sita's Sistahs with Colette 'Speedy' Craigan scoring the first goal and Teresa Craigan scoring the second with two seconds on the clock, from 30 yards out.
