Royals win comfortably against Kingston outfitJuly 15, 2007Ottawa Royals comfortably won its Ottawa Cup third round tie against Kingston’s Limestone City by a score of 3-0. Ryan Devereaux scored a brace and James MacMillan thundered home a header to qualify the Royals for the final of the city’s showpiece cup competition.
Trying an experimental formation with the match against St. Anthony’s in mind, the Royals looked a little shaky in defence but likely to score when going forward.
Despite controlling the lion’s share of possession, Dustin Kemp in the Limestone net had a relatively comfortable first 45 minutes, making a few routine saves but not being exerted unduly.
The main threat to the Royals came from some dangerous tackling – and when Kemp scythed Donnard down in the box, it signalled the end of the afternoon for the French winger, likely out for 10 days with a recurrence of his bruised foot.
With substitute Ryan Devereaux keen to prove his fitness, there was an extra spring in the Royals’ play and on 45 minutes the visitors had the ball in the net only for it to be ruled out for offside.
At half time, Ewan Lyttle came on for Richard Boyle, pushing Labrom to left back and Deganutti into midfield. As the team settled, Limestone had one of its best chances to score with Lee beating Rochon to the ball and shooting just wide from 12 yards out.
The Royals stepped up their play a little and, on 59 minutes, some excellent work by Devereaux was followed by a cross to Deganutti, whose first time volley forced a superb reflex save from Kemp.
On 63 minutes, the Royals opened their account. Ryan Devereaux latched onto Ewan Lytle’s through ball and ran into the area before shooting across Kemp’s despairing dive into the corner of the net.
On 76 minutes, Devereaux scored his second of the afternoon, following good work by Deganutti on the left.
The Royals were controlling much of the game now, but Limestone still managed to cause them some trouble with runs through the middle. Indeed, Wallace had to make last ditch saves on a couple of occasions.
Still the Royals looked likely to score each time they moved forward – and Brooks almost notched the third of the afternoon on 81 minutes.
On 85 minutes, however, MacMillan provided the third goal with a thundering header from Brooks’ corner.
Three minutes later, Devereaux was deprived of his hattrick by a shameful bit of cheating by Lee. Lee was challenged in the area and rolled off the pitch, before rolling back on and trying to get the Royals to knock the ball out of play. Devereaux by this time had broken free of the defence and was through on the Limestone goal. Listening to the calls, instead of slotting the ball past the keeper, he allowed the ball to roll to him. At which point, the cheating Lee simply got up and walked off the field. What a twat.
The referee blew up for full time and Limestone was out of the cup.
Man of the Match: 3 points – Ryan Devereaux, 2 points – Frank Zegers, 1 point – Tyler Wallace
StatisticsOttawa Royals1-Tyler Wallace; 2-Frank Zegers, 3-James MacMillan, 11-Dom Rochon, 9-Dan Deganutti; 13-Greg Donnard (23-Ryan Devereaux, 37), 6-Marc Labrom, 20-Steve Kowlessar, 14-Richard Boyle (22-Ewan Lyttle, 46); 16-Jonathan Brooks, 8-Dimitri Koutras
Yellow Cards: Ryan Devereaux
Goals: Ryan Devereaux 2 (63 mins, 76 mins), James MacMillan (85 mins)
Limestone City
1-Dustin Kemp; 10-Scott Comeau, 8-Wade Innis, 6-Ryan Borges, 3-Mike Cook; 5-Tom Cawthorn, 4-Matt Tarbeau, 20-Steve Murano, 13-Mark Stanley; 11-Eric Lee, 18-Ben Naugler, 14-Vince Stabile, 19-Kevin McEleney
Season Tally:
Goals: D’Angelo 11; Boyle, Devereaux 5; Kowlessar 4; Koutras 3, Clouthier, J. Gutierrez, Ntwari 2; Brooks, MacMillan 1
Assists: Brooks, 5; Deganutti, Koutras, Rochon 4; Boyle, 3; Donnard, J. Gutierrez, 2; D’Angelo, Dennis, Devereaux, Kowlessar, Lyttle 1
