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Revolution back on top

  • Sunday, August 02 2009 @ 11:27 pm ACST
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North America

In a return to the status quo, the United States Revolution have defeated Canada's Northwind in the international in Mason, Ohio, USA.

An early report from usfooty.com reports that:

On a hot muggy day at Mason Sports Complex the new faced USA Revolution defeated the Canadian Northwind team. The returning Revolution players spearheaded by Luke Nemeth lead the way; however the deciding factor was the outstanding performance by a number of rookies. The Revolution got off to a great start kicking 4.4, to 1.1 in the first quarter. They continued to lead comfortably for the rest of the day. The Revolution backline were outstanding in the second quarter, keeping the Canadian National team to just one more goal. The Revolution’s fitness, teamwork and physicality showed in the second half, as they ran out comfortable winners.

United States 12.11 (83)
Canada 5.3 (33)

US details:

BEST PLAYERS

Luke Nemeth, Andy Vanica, Noor Jehangir, Wes Edwin, Dan Sarbacker and RJ Wheelock

GOAL SCORERS

Weelock 2, Stange 2, Hansen 2, Jehangir 2, Floyd 1, Jonhs 1, Loring 1, and Sarbacker 1



Further reports to follow.