As It Happened: UKC (M) v. Holland College (M)---ACAA

Teams:

UKC: Pyne, Wallingford, Bathe, Poulton, Reid, MacIntyre, Boudreau, Curci, Peacock, Karkilins, Burleton.

HC: Tanner, Kacsmarik, Gallant, O'Donnell, Vessey, #15, #16, DesRoches, 12, 21, 22. Sorry, their rosters are, as the women's coach told me, inaccurate.

1min: Just finished an interview with the women's coach. Kings' kick off with MacIntyre on the attack.

3min: Corner to Kings' which MacIntyre will put in. It's played to Curci, who whiffs an easy chance.

8min: Lots of attacking from Kings', who have scored on average 4.3 goals per game this year, including 3 against Holland last weekend.

9min: Peacock gest in alone, but he can't manage a chance. Gallant does well to stop him.

11min: Pyne is tested by a low cross which would have gone in had he not pushed it away.

12min: O'Donnell wastes an otherwise decent free kick by going for goal from 35 yards. He misses.

15min: GOAL! Kings' open it up after a poorly cleared free kick falls to Anders Peacock. he does well to keep his shot low and Tanner can't get enough behind it to save.

18min: Peacock trots down the left. Holland decide he isn't worth worrying about. He isn't, either--at least, not this time, as his shot goes wide.

19min: Reid wafts in a free kick, but Tanner collects it. Holland don't look very interested in this game right now.

21min: Great build-up by Kings', as Curci finds a streaking MacIntyre. His cross picks out Peacock with all kinds of time, but he dinks it straight at tanner from 5 yards out. How did he miss that?

23min: Kings' free kick into the wall froma dangerous position.

25min: Holland win a corner, which doesn't make it past the first defender.

27min: Kings' are running circles around HC at the moment. They're faster and they're more technically skilled, too.

29min: This could very well get ugly. Kings' could even get better in the second half.

33min: O'Donnell wastes another free kick by driving a "pass" out over the byline from 53 yards.

36min: Wallingford--who had been walking a disciplinary tight-rope for assisting MacIntyre in some skullduggery--is booked for an otherwise innocuous challenge on 21.

38min: Peacock again evades 9 and wastes a shot.

42min: GOAL! And that's probably it for Justin Pyne's streak of consecutive starts (2). Goodness, what a howler. 12 falters on his chance and mishits his shot straight towards Pyne with all the momentum of a stalled car. Pyne not only spills it but manages to fall over and push it behind himself at the same time. 12 jumps up, scampers around Pyne, and pokes the gift-wrapped ball home. Oh well, at least Josh Viner's confidence will be through the roof right now. I'd say Kings' have a goalkeeping controversy alright. Viner starts and blows the Holland and NSAC games, so Pyne comes in and isn't tested against St. Thomas and gives Holland College a life-line. That's a game-changing goal, too, late and it puts Kings' dominance in a completely new light.

45+min: MacIntyre nearly gets to the ball before Tanner does and gets booked for doing his job as a striker. C.J. Young and Matt Fegan both holler about it and are both told to sit down by the assistant referee. Young's probably pretty close to getting sent off here, this isn't the first round of shouting tonight. That will likely be his final warninng. MacIntyre's now been booked in two straight games.

45+min: Half-time is called and Fegan goes to the ref to exchange views.

45min: Well, Pyne's still in, though I noticed he got a private pep talk with Matt fegan at half-time. And a short catching lesson. Parsley is replacing MacIntyre for Kings', which is probably protecting MacIntyre from a card-happy ref. Mullet and 16 are in for Holland College, with 21 and someone I couldn't see coming out.

47min: Boudreau misses, after controlling well in the box off a free kick.

48min: DesRoches with a cross which Pyne catches. Those lessons at half-time are paying off already.

50min: I've just managed a spectacular evasion of a fresh barrage of pigeon dropping and nesting materials from the rafters. I'm now hiding under the press box again.

55min: Free kick to HC, wide left. It's sent in low and Pyne catches it.

56min: Kings' swap Sam Burleton for Rylan Palmer-Dixon.

60min: 22 misses a glorious chance. Pyne had collided with O'Donnell on a challenge, but the ball fell to 22 with an open goal. He hesitated, though, and Pyne managed to recover, forcing him to fire well wide.

61min: A phantom free kick to Kings'. Karkilins gets his head on the delivery but can only direct it wide.

67min: Kings' will make another change, with Boudreau replaced by Mark Higgins. An attacking sub by C.J. Young there. He's going with three real attacking-style players in Higgins, Karkilins, and Peacock.

71min: Wallingford makes a dreadful pass straight to 22, but the Kings' defender somehow escapes punishment as 22 lacks the pace to open up the rest of the Blue Devils' defense.

72min: Higgins slides a nice pass to Peacock, who blazes over the bar. I don't think he realised how much time he had.

76min: Kings' maybe shouldn't have taken MacIntyre off. They've lacked his pace and energy in the second half. Karkilins is booked for very little, as far as I can tell, though he did go in a bit hard on 14.

81min: DesRoches cuts down Higgins, who stays down. DesRoches gets booked. The free kick is cleared by Tanner, who is fouled.

83min: Two changes, with DesRoches off for 10 and Higgins off for Straatof.

85min: Another change for HC. 22 comes off for 15.

86min: Free kick to Holland on the right, top of the box. And it's a very nearly a goal from the substitute! 15 loops it over the wall and Pyne. It hits the bar, hits Pyne's back, a few different players whack at it and it somehow comes clear and we stay 1-1.

88min: Dangerous corner opportunity for Holland as a free kick is cleared.

90min: GOAL! Oh dear for Holland! A great ball through finds Peacock. Tanner makes a beautiful save but Karkilins is first to the rebound and Tanner in no position to save it. O'Donnell argues something with the ref and is booked for it.

Full-time: The ref blows for time right off the kick-off, sending O'Donnell into further conniptions, for which he is sent off. He'll now miss the MSVU game. Kings' may not ahve deserved this one, but they'll take it, I'm sure.