Olympic Flame boys take top spot at St. Catharines soccer tourney.
The Scarborough Olympic Flame U9 soccer team won the Tiamo Festival Soccer tournament in St. Catharines on the July 24th weekend. Pictured are front row, from left Vasili Boutsiarakos, Haysem Dessuky, Philip Tepelenas, Dimitri Papadopoulos, Charles Vasilakakos, Johnny Simtikidis. Second row, manager/coach George Tepelenas, Nicholas Assadourian, Tommy Michailidis, Yusuf Jama, Andrew Manikas, Ilias Iliadis, John Morias and head coach Chris Simtikidis,
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The Scarborough Olympic Flame Soccer club pulled off a big win at the Tiamo Festival Soccer tournament hosted by the Club Roma soccer club in St. Catharines on the July 24th weekend.The U9 boys team went undefeated in the round robin with two shutouts and then won the final game in the eighth minute of extra time against the Roma Wolves.John Simtikidis scored the winning goal.In the semifinal against Niagara Falls the game went into penalty kicks to decide the winner. Scarborough was down a goal in the shootout and goalkeeper Dimitri Papadopoulos made two saves in a row to win it.More than 100 teams participated in the two day event.