The Carleton Men’s and Women’s Varsity teams recently hosted over 20 teams at the annual Carleton Indoor Soccer Tournament. This event brings together varsity and alumni squads from across Ontario as well as some of Eastern Ontario’s best local men’s and women’s teams.
Thanks to everyone who played or came out to support the lads throughout the weekend. We had over 30 CSAA members play in the tournament and put on some exciting matches with some alumni not being able to play but still coming out to support and watch: Jeff Knight, Kriss “Latvian Prince” Brauns, etc. It was great to see all of the young one’s and future Carleton stars with everyone bringing out their little one’s to the matches this weekend. We want to send a special thank you to those who traveled from out of town to play in the tournament. Greg Gallo making his return to the indoor tournament coming down from Toronto and still displaying his “ticki-tacki” football. Also a big welcome back to Will and Rob Norcross (the latter who traveled from Utah). “Robbo” was an instrumental member of the CSAA before his move to the US as he previously organized the Indoor Tournament in the past and it was great to have him back participating – including scoring a cracker of a goal for the Alumni #2 team! (and still displaying his Carleton gear that still fits from the early 90’s!)
Carleton Alumni #2 (Vintage Lads)
vs. Ottawa Fury PDL (1-0 loss with Yasser the stand-out in net and voted team tournament MVP!)
vs. Santos (an unlucky 1-0 loss)
vs. Carleton Varsity (3-1 loss was thrown to Varsity to ensure they made the semi’s but highlight being a cracking header goal from Kwesi!)
vs. Nepean Hotspurs (3-0 smashing victory to end the day! Goals: Rob Norcross, Dimitri Koutras, Alex “AZ” Zaslavsky)
Carleton Alumni Team #1 (Young Lads):
vs. Queens Alumni (2-0 surprise loss)
vs. Capital United (3-0 win)
vs. Algonquin Alumni (6-1 smashing of our cross town rivals!)
vs. La Cite Collegial (2-1 Victory with goals coming from “Prime Time” now turned “Tim Hortin Shin Pad” “Roll Up The Rim” Paul Kihara)
Semi Final vs. Varsity: (0-0 with Alumni losing in Pk’s – alumni had a little too much fun Sat so were a bit slower than usual).
Varsity:
Our Varsity Team had an excellent tournament beating both Alumni teams along the way to the final. The Varsity squad ended up beating the Ottawa Fury PDL team in the final in PK’s and winning the tournament! CONGRATS LADS! That’s two indoor tournaments victories to add to the trophy cabinet for the Varsity boys!!!
Alumni Pizza Lunch – Saturday, March 16th
Thanks to all who participated in the Pizza Lunch. It was a good gathering and time for the Varsity and Alumni to get together, share stories, and catch up on all of the activities. Thanks to those who helped pull this together as it was great to see it turn into a Raven daycare with Sam McHugh and Peter “Pano” partaking in the dodgeball game with Karl Wasslan and Tim Khaemba’s kids……the game was then brought to a dangerous halt once Will Murray and Kriss Brauns jumped into the fray!!
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