After a Canada Day hiatus the Parkland Mall Men's league action once again resumed play on Sunday in the scorching, humid July heat. With many U-18 players playing a full weekend of action at Regina's Summerfest many of the clubs for the men's league were shorthanded for Sunday's fixtures, making things a bit more difficult and interesting.
M&M Water Supplies Whitecaps managed to overcome being saddled with the difficult task of being the club with two fixtures and notched wins over Black and Reds with leading scorer Shelby Mc lelland adding to his lead as top goal getter in two impressive wins.
The middle fixture of the day saw a struggling Celtic team notch a win over a Yorkshire and Parkland Albion side that was two men down and showed tired legs from having a majority of U-18 players on their squad. After being down one-nil at halftime the Albion drew the game and had a chance to go up two-one on a penalty before a miss gave Celtic an opportunity to steal three points on a poor week for the league leaders. The tired Albion eventually conceded before Celtic put away the game with two late goals in a surprising 4-1 victory that gave the once undefeated Albion two straight losses in the league.
The Whitecaps two victories on the weekend saw them overtake first place with a game at hand over the Albion. The Albion face the Whitecaps Sunday in a game that will have title ramifications at 6:20 p.m. at the Parkland Mall pitch Sunday July 15. Other action this Sunday includes the Yorkshire and Parkland Albion and Black playing at four p.m. and Reds and Celtic squaring off in the 5:10 p.m. fixture. As always admission is free and all spectators are welcome to attend the matches.
