May 12th, 2008

(See the week-end's games' stats at the bottom of this page)

The San Jose Frogs had a busy schedule this week-end and won their two games at Lancaster and San Fernando Valley while the San Francisco Seals won at Lancaster too.

The Seals played the Lancaster Rattlers on Friday night and won 1-0 with a goal scored by Kellan Wilson (his third in the first three matches of the season). This is the second win in three games for the Seals this season. Their record now shows 2 wins and one tie, which is excellent, considering that they played 2 of the best teams in the league: the Fresno Fuego (3-2 win) and the San Jose Frogs (0-0), the Frogs.

On Saturday, the Frogs had the first of their 2 back to back games at Lancaster. One goal in each half for the Frogs gave them a 2-0 victory. Nelson Diaz scored the first goal after 3 minutes and Eric Espinoza, who replaced Diaz at the 89th minute, doubled the score one minute later.

24 hours later, the Frogs defeated (3-1) the San Fernando Valley Quakes who had not lost on their own field in more than a year. San Jose quickly killed the game, leading by three goals after 40 minutes. The goals were scored by Hugo Sousa (9th), Andrew J. Wiedeman (19th) and Wiedeman again (40th, assisted by Nelson Diaz).

With 2 wins each and a tie in the match between them, the 2 Bay Area teams share the top position in the Southwest Division of the semi-professional Premier Development League (PDL) of the United Soccer Leagues (USL).

PDL is the third division of USL and is generally considered as the overall 4th division in the country after MLS, USL1 and USL2.

Next week, on Saturday night (May 17 at 7pm) Bay Area soccer fans will have a choice between the Seals (receiving the Orange County Blue Star at USF Negoesco Stadium, San Francisco) and the Frogs (who will host the Ventura County Fusion at Jame Lick High School, San Jose)

Thierry Heumann (email)

 

Friday May 9th, 2008

Lancaster Rattlers 0-1 San Francisco Seals

Lineups:

Lancaster Rattlers: Zach Brunner - Alfred Bedrossian, , Brandon Howell, George Medina - Benjamin A. Corrodi, Mauricio Harrie, Julio A. Lopez, Stanley Jayro, Daniel Vigil - Miguel Ibarra, Aaron Lott.

San Francisco Seals: Eric Conner - Tyler Barry, Doug Carr, Yousef Samy, Shea Whelan - Michael Balugon (Victor Cortez, 68th), Francisco Camacho, Jesse Henderson, Eric Lafon (Kellan Wilson, 46th), Jean Pierre Mujica-Saldana - Stephen Cordova (El Hadji Dieng, 61st)

Officials: Francisco Orozco, Magic Berenji, Ryan Van Duyne.

Goal: Kellan Wilson (83rd)

Cautions:

SFS: Josh Leon (86th)

Lancaster Rattlers: Daniel Vigil (78th)

	Shots Half1 Half2 Final   San Francisco Seals 3 3 6   Lancaster Rattlers 7 3 10
	Fouls Half1 Half2 Final   San Francisco Seals 7 5 12   Lancaster Rattlers 7 4 11
	Corners Half1 Half2 Final   San Francisco Seals 3 1 4   Lancaster Rattlers 6 2 8

 

Saturday May 10th, 2008

Lancaster Rattlers 0-2 San Jose Frogs

Lineups:

Lancaster Rattlers: Zach Brunner - Alfred Bedrossian, Brandon Howell, George Medina, Jose Rojo - Benjamin A. Corrodi, Miguel Ibarra (Aaron Lott, 70th), Julio A. Lopez (Mauricio Harrie, 60th), Stanley Jayro (Kyle A. Canamar, 87th), Daniel Vigil - Mathayo Huma.

San Jose Frogs: Sergio Valle - Stefan K. Clemens, Joseph Frank, Hugo Sousa, Gavin Wenyon - Mariano Y. Arrua, Nelson Diaz (Eric Espinoza, 89th), Ignacio Finlay, Dan Oka - Jose Munoz, Andrew J. Wiedeman.

Officials: Daniel Radford, Marlene Duffy, Alan Brafman.

Goals: Nelson Diaz (4th), Eric Espinoza (90th)

Cautions:

SJF: Hugo Souza (40th), Dan Oka, (81st)

Lancaster Rattlers: Daniel Vigil (53rd)

	Shots Half1 Half2 Final   San Jose Frogs 4 2 6   Lancaster Rattlers 8 3 11
	Fouls Half1 Half2 Final  San Jose Frogs 9 1 10   Lancaster Rattlers 5 4 9
	Corners Half1 Half2 Final  San Jose Frogs 2 2 4   Lancaster Rattlers 1 1 2

Sunday May 11th, 2008

San Fernando Valley Quakes 1-3 San Jose Frogs

Lineups:

San Fernando: Kevin Guppy - Stephen Carlson, Robert Pate (Aaron D. Hunter, 34th), Jeffrey Quijano, Matthew Tracy - Johnathan Jose Bravo (Zachary Walker, 34th), Mathew Davis (Maxwell Griffin, 70th), Devin Deldo, Jose R. Esquivel (Joel D. Crompton, 61st), Sung-Hyun Kim - Ryan Shaw.

San Jose Frogs: Sergio Valle - Joseph Frank, Dan Oka, Hugo Sousa, Gavin Wenyon - Mariano Y. Arrua, Nelson Diaz (Juan Gonzalez, 69th), Jose Munoz, Andrew J. Wiedeman (Michael T. Lawler, 88th) - Eric Espinoza, Ignacio Finlay (Richardo Dorrego, 58th).

Officials: Daniel Radford, Frank Anderson, Ashbir Singh.

Goals:

SJF: Hugo Sousa (9th), Andrew J. Wiedeman (19th), Andrew J. Wiedeman (40th, assist: Nelson Diaz)

SFVQ: Mathew Davis (52nd)

Cautions:

SJF: Gavin Wenyon (76th), Eric Espinoza (75th), Hugo Souza (84th)

SFVQ: Devin Deldo (43rd)

	Shots Half1 Half2 Final   San Jose Frogs 6 1 7 San Fernando Valley Quakes 2 5 7
	Fouls Half1 Half2 Final  San Jose Frogs 6 8 14 San Fernando Valley Quakes 2 3 5
	Corners Half1 Half2 Final San Jose Frogs 2 1 3 San Fernando Valley Quakes 3 0 3

Source for all stats: USL