September 19, 2015 Detroit Public Schools Showcase Doubleheader League match: Cass Tech High School 5, Detroit Renaissance High School 2 Friendly: Detroit City FC 3, Ann Arbor FC 2 Cass Tech Stadium Attendance: 1,511 It was a full day downtown on this Saturday. First, there was the Midtown Literary Walk, featuring ten authors at four …
July 25, 2015 Detroit City FC 1, AFC Cleveland 2 Breese Stevens Stadium, Madison, WI AFCC Antonio Manfut (James Haupt) 7′ AFCC Brian Potocnik 75′ DCFC Charlie MacInnes 76′ Attendance: More of us than them. Thursday morning I packed my bag and drove the tollroad-free 475 miles, from home to the La Quinta hotel in …
July 22, 2015 Detroit City FC 0, Windsor Stars 1 Windsor 61′ Attendance: 3,485 A massive Wednesday night crowd of almost 3,500 sent Le Rouge off to Madison with encouragement to bring the division trophy home. A 1-0 win by Windsor did not quell the enthusiasm of the night. I photographed the first half, but …
July 19, 2015 Detroit City FC 2, Michigan Stars 0 Wisner Memorial Stadium DCFC Javi Bautista (Bobby Budlong) 51′ DCFC Seb Harris (Cyrus Saydee) 56′ Attendance: More Le Rouge fans than Stars fans. Final match of the regular season in Pontiac against the Michigan Stars. I arrived early, garbed in my photographer’s vest peppered with …
July 17, 2015 Detroit City FC 2, Erie Commodores 3 Cass Tech Stadium ERIE Jimmy Barrios 13′ DCFC Will Mellors-Blair (Cyrus Saydee) 21′ DCFC Will Mellors-Blair (Cyrus Saydee) 42′ ERIE Eric Campbell 68′ ERIE Austin Solomon 75′ Attendance: 3,793 Another sellout at Cass Stadium tonight as Erie came to town. Demoted from “Admirals” to “Commodores,” …
July 11, 2015 Detroit City FC 3, Michigan Stars 1 Cass Tech Stadium DCFC Will Mellors-Blair 4′ DCFC Josh Rogers 41′ (PK) MICH Alex Sertwatka (Alexander Adelabu) 62′ DCFC Will Mellors-Blair (Alex Isaevski) 78′ Attendance: 3,884 Another record-breaking crowd as Le Rouge trounce the Michigan Stars in this excellent game. Will Mellors-Blair gave City an …
June 28, 2015 Detroit City FC 1, Lansing United 0 Cass Tech Stadium DCFC Will Mellors-Blair 39′ Attendance: 3,701 Lansing United came into Detroit undefeated and on top of the league. They went home defeated and in third place. A record crowd of 3,701 witnessed the beautiful goal by Will Mellors-Blair… …a crucial save by …
June 20, 2015 Detroit City FC 3, Cincinnati Saints 1 Winthrow High School – Cincinnati, OH CINN Scott Shugh (Christian Myton) 4′ DCFC Matt Ybara 76′ DCFC Dan Dragoi (Will Mellors-Blair) 85′ DCFC David Edwardson 90+’ Attendance: ? There are games in a team’s history fans will never forget. For the fifty or so of …
June 17, 2015 Friendly Detroit City FC 1, Columbus Crew College Program 3 Cass Tech Stadium DCFC Tyler Channell (Alex Isaevski) 26′ CREW Ahinga Seleman 30′ CREW Ryan James (Nate Kohl) 37′ CREW Willy Bayemi (Hunter Robertson) 72′ Attendance: 2,610 The almost-annual friendly against the Columbus Crew kids. After skipping them in 2014, the mid-week …
June 6, 2015 Detroit City FC 5, Madison 56ers 0 Cass Tech Stadium DCFC Cyrus Saydee (James Murphy) 32′ DCFC Tyler Channell (James Murphy) 41′ DCFC Will Mellors-Blair 66′ DCFC Will Mellors-Blair (David Edwardson) 73′ DCFC Matt Ybarra (Wade Allen) 90′ Attendance: 3,561 A new record crowd was treated to a blowout by the boys …
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