To all reps, coaches, convenors:

This week is going to be a week, that we the exec, do not want you to take lightly as all teams have games in this heat wave. Please play smart and have plenty of fluids with you. We will not be cancelling any games.

If the ref decides then that is when that decision is made to cancel.

Please have good dialogue with refs before games to have water breaks (couple of mins)
Note: Our Constitution reads: “Game is Complete and recorded as a Game if you Play 10 mins into the 2nd half.”
This would be a good week to call all your call-ups in to play.

Play Smart Guys
Case Vanderkruk

Hope everybody is doing well and enjoying the start of the 2015 Season. As our first long wk-end is coming to a close and the summer season is opening up, I personally want to thank the League and the Executive for their hard work in making the 2015 Season happen. I sense much enthusiasm and excitement in my walk about through the League.
I would also like to mention that all teams are much improved this year which will make for some good soccer to watch for your team fans.

Continue to promote this game in your circles and encourage the fans to come out and watch especially the young. Let’s continue to be good ambassadors for the game and honouring God, Who gave you the talents to play the game.

Some of you might have seen me coaching already behind the bench for Rockton and I would li...

Below is a summary of the constitution changes made at the March 2015 general meeting. The up-to-date constitution is found here: http://hmicsl.com/hmicsl/constitution

Article 3, section 3: executive terms now 3 years long
Article 6, section 3: list of member teams removed
Article 8: housekeeping
Article 12, section 5: referee coordinator now referred to as “coordinator/assignor” (also in Article 16)
Article 14, section 2: clarification to point #5 (addition of “of the current season”)

#1 Waterdown Bulldogs v #8 BCFC
– game 1: Bulldogs 5-1
– game 2: Bulldogs 7-1, Bulldogs move through

#2 Wentworth FC v #7 York
– game 1: 0-0 tie
– game 2: 0-0 tie, York wins on PKs (7th shooter)

#3 Hamilton Thunder v #6 Rockton Blazers
– game 1: 1-1 tie
– game 2: 3-0 Thunder

#4 Dundas Assault v #5 Ancaster Arsenal
– game 1: Dundas 4-1
– game 2: 2-2 tie, Dundas advances on goal differential

Semi-finals
#1 Waterdown Bulldogs v #7 York
Thurs Sept 11- York @ Dogs – Redeemer 5-2 Bulldogs
Thurs Sept 18 – Dogs @ York – Redeemer 4-3 York, the Bulldogs advance to the finals

#3 Hamilton Thunder v #4 Dundas Assault
Tues Sept 16 – Assault @ Thunder – Bishop Ryan

Thunder defeated the Assault, 2-1, in the first leg of the semi-final...

Dundas vs Rockton on July 10th I predicted would be an important game … it ended up being a 0-0 dud.  Here are the other recent games:

A few big games in there, like Dunda...

Back from vacation, here are the last two weeks worth of games. A few blowouts but a good smattering of close games as well:

Here are the results from the week just ended:

And the standings now look like this:

There is perhaps one important game: Rockton vs Ancaster on Thursday – b...

Apologies for the lack of updates for a few weeks … was annoyed with HaDmin. But I’ve got all the results now, so here you go!

Dundas are getting stuck near the bottom of the table with too many ties! Thunder finally had a 5-game shutout streak broken by Ancaster.

Big games next week are Bulldogs v Wentworth again (first game was a 4-2 win for Bulldogs) and BCFC v Panthers.

Unfortunately the game reports aren’t showing up on the Standings page. As far as I’m aware, after the ref enters the score both the home team and the away team have to log into HaDmin to confirm the details. Perhaps the team reps aren’t logging in to do so?

Here are all the results from the first three weeks:

What a wet week – and unfortunate for Brant County FC, who had both of their games postponed. As a result, Rockton and the Thunder both were idle this week as well.

In the week 1 recap had predicted that the Week 2 games to watch might be the double-header on Wednesday – because of those postponed games there weren’t too many more games to pick from! The first game between Dundas Assault and York was the season-opener for both, and was a hard fought game with a bit of rain to keep things civil and the scoring low: 1-1 was the final score.

In the second game Waterdown scored four goals for the second game in a row, and although two players from Wentworth FC kept their scoring streaks going (Juan and yours truly) Waterdown was able to thwart the second-half attacks even though they didn’t ha...

On Wednesday there was a solid double-header at Cityview.

In game 1 the Waterdown Bulldogs were looking for some revenge against the Thunder because of last year’s final 🙂 They decided that they would carry out this revenge in the best way they know how: score early and score often! Jordan Kerkoff is off to a great start with a hat-trick and may be on the way to another shot at the top goalscorer award (he’s won, or had a share of it, for four of the last five years).

The second game was between Wentworth FC and Rockton. Man, it cooled off as the game went on! Rockton played with a bit shorter of a bench then they typically have in previous years, and Wentworth went up 3-1 until Rockton made it close with about ten minutes to go at 3-2...

As of May 7th, the schedule for 2014 looks like this:

(reminder: the schedule and results at hadmin.ca are correct if there is any discrepancy)

If you’re a team rep looking for where to get gamesheets, get over to the H&D SA website – hadmin.ca

To kick off the new season we’ve got a double-header at Cityview. Last season’s top two teams through the regular season (who, as you remember, met each other again in the Final!) play at 7pm: Hamilton Thunder vs. Waterdown Bulldogs.

Following up this game, which is sure to show how these top teams will be looking for 2014, are Wentworth FC v Rockton Blazers.

I compiled some stats from 2008 to 2013 to get you guys in the mood for the 2014 season.

Somewhat unsurprising is that the Waterdown Bulldogs really show how much a powerhouse they’ve been in the last six years.

What did surprise me is the almost perfect correlation between goals for and points. Goals against seems to make a very small difference!

Totals – 4.24 goals per game average.
2008 – 13 teams – 21 points needed to make playoffs
2009 – 13 teams – 18 points needed
2010 – 14 teams – 22 points
2011 – 13 teams – 23 points
2012 – 11 teams – 18 points
2013 – 9 teams – 8 points
2014 – 9 teams – ?

The second image shows the points at the end of the regular season for each team through the years. It shows how (in)consistent your team is. Compare Ancaster to Dundas!

The best record in thi...

Well, it’s taken a few hours, but something has now been cobbled together. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out!
– Chris

Final recap:
Scoring & Cards

• Thunder goal 3′ – #13 Jon VanSpronsen
• Dogs goal 22′ – #12 Matt Miedema
• Thunder goal 35′ – #19 Dave Vandenbos
• Thunder goal 75′ – #17 Darren Schutten
• Thunder yellow 78′ – #9 Steve DeJong
• Dogs goal 88′ – Matt Miedema

Thunder wins the Championship 3-2 over the Bulldogs.

League Champion-Bulldogs
Playoff Champion-Thunder
Most sportsmanlike Team-Ancaster Arsenal
Most Improved Team-Hamilton Panthers
Best Defensive Team-Ancaster Arsenal and Thunder (shared)
Most Valuable Player 2013: Jordan Kerkoff (Bulldogs)
Top goal scorer: Jordan Kerkoff (Bulldogs) 39 in season (new record!) and tallied 8 more in playoffs
Coach of the Year Ray Schuurman-Rockton Blazers
The Bernie Slump Award-Eric Miedema-Ancaster Arsenal
The Bill Tolkamp Award-#17-Darren Schutten-Ham Thunder

Than...

The playoff tilts have all wrapped up and 2 teams are left standing. The 1st place Bulldogs will take on the 2nd place Thunder in the finals to wrap up our 2013 season.

The finals will take place Saturday Sept. 28th at 10am @ Redeemers outdoor field – with Ancaster Arsenal being the host team for the event.

So come on out, support the teams, and see the epic show down to another good year in our HMICSL.

Thanks to all our refs, coaches, fans, players and staff for another excellent year. Looking forward to seeing how the year wraps up and the trophy presentations from the season awards also.

See you there!

Game 1’s
Tuesday Aug 27 – Wentworth vs Rockton – 7 pm Redeemer indoor
– Dogs vs Panthers – 9 pm Redeemer outdoor

Thurs. Aug 29 – Arsenal vs Assault – 7 pm Redeemer outdoor
– Thunder vs York – 9 pm Redeemer outdoor

Game 2’s
Tues/Weds 3rd/4th – Wentworth vs Rockton and Dogs vs Panthers (PENDING LOCATION)
Weds 4th – Thunder vs York @ 7 pm City View
Arsenal vs Assault @ 9 pm City view

Quarter-finals:
dogs v panthers
thunder v york
arsenal v assault
wentworth v rockton

Tuesday Aug 27
HDCH @ 6:45
Redeemer @ 7 (indoor)
Redeemer @ 9 (outdoor)
Beverly @ 6:45

Thursday Aug 29
HDCH @ 6:45
Redeemer @ 7 & 9 (outdoor)
Beverly @ 6:45

Semi-finals
Wedn Sep 4 @ City View – 7pm and 9pm starts
Tue Sep 10 or Wedn Sep 11 @ Redeemer – 9pm
Wedn Sep 11 @ City View – 9pm

Final
TBD

Hey all!

Season gets under way this evening with a double header at City View tonight and the rest keeps rolling along tomorrow night!

Best luck to all and gear up as the season moves along!

So that everyone’s on the same page, here are the exact instructions that the referees have been given regarding offsides.

In the definition of offside position, “nearer to the opponents goal line” means that any part of player head, body or feet is nearer to the opponent’s goal line than both the ball and the second last opponent. THE ARMS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS DEFINITION: arms are not part of the game.

A player is offside if he is nearer his opponent’s goal-line at the ball at the moment the ball is played unless:
1. The player is in his own half of the field of play.
2. There are two of his opponents nearer to their own goal line.
3. The ball last touched an opponent or was last played by him.
4...

On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 we’ll start the season with a pair of games at City View Park (formerly New City) in Burlington:

Dundas Assault vs. Rockton Blazers (7pm)
Waterdown Bulldogs vs. Wentworth FC (9pm)

Looking forward to seeing a bunch of fans out to celebrate the beginning of a brand new season!
The other interesting change is that playoffs will be best-of-two (most goals); the first game can end in a tie but if the two games are tied it will go to OT or shootouts.

Dundas won the final on Saturday – congratulations to the Assault as well as to the Cambridge Cobras for making their way to the final.

This is Dundas’ first win as the “Assault” .. if we look back in the history books it’s the first win for a team from Dundas since 1990.

This year’s final was the meeting of two defensive teams, and almost two hundred fans were out to witness some great clean soccer. The Timbits game was a lot of fun, with approximately 20 kids playing – the play ground was a nice touch, eh?

MVP of the game was Dundas’ goalkeeper Dan Aasman. With eight shutouts during the regular season but none yet in the playoffs, he shut the door and allowed his teammates a win with their only goal. Congrats, Dan!

You can have a look at photos of the final here: http://www.facebook...