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David Fellerath ·
13 Aug 2009, 8:40 PM ·
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RailHawks keeper Eric Reed surely didn’t intend for his endorsement of rock-solid—and taciturn—defender Jeremy Tolleson in team blogger Tim Candon’s profile, posted today, to sound backhanded:
“He’s so dependable,” said goalkeeper Eric Reed, who played with Tolleson last year in Cleveland, too. “A lot of teams, because he’s not a physical presence back there like [Mark] Schulte or Brad [Rusin], you don’t think a lot of him. Teams will put forwards directly on him, and Jeremy will handle them no problem. You can count on him 99.999 percent of the time. Very rarely will he ever do something that will hurt you.”
Obviously, if defenders were perfect, they wouldn’t concede any goals. In fact, the RailHawks have given up 13, the second-fewest in the USL-1. For his part, Tolleson has been an unsung hero, fortuitously stepping in after missing the first few weeks of the season due to injury. He made his season debut in the same game that saw the towering Jack Stewart go down with a broken fibula. Tolleson, who played with coach Martin Rennie in Cleveland the last two seasons and with the PDL Cascade Surge before that, was expected to see time at left back, but the Stewart injury moved him to the middle. Candon’s appreciation is here.
Elsewhere in RailHawksiana today, the N&O’s Rachel Ullrich has a nice piece about the RailHawks’ foreign players that performs the useful service of nailing down which players are officially foreign, under USL rules, and which are not. (In the latter category: Sallieu Bundu, Andriy Budnyy, Gavin Glinton, Caleb Patterson-Sewell.) This story, by the way, ran above the fold on the front sports page. Kudos to the N&O for giving Ullrich space this summer. She’ll be missed when her internship ends.
The RailHawks are back in third place after victories by the Charleston Battery and the Portland Timbers. They have three games in hand on Charleston and one on Portland. They travel to Vancouver for a game against the Whitecaps Saturday, Aug. 15, at 10 p.m. EDT. Watch it on USLLive.com.
Carolina RailHawks, Soccer Andriy Budnyy, Caleb Patterson Sewell, Eric Reed, Gavin Glinton, Jeremy Tolleson, Martin Rennie, Sallieu Bundu, Vancouver Whitecaps
David Fellerath ·
29 May 2009, 2:33 AM ·
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Daniel Paladini (left) against the Cleveland City Stars on May 22 (photo courtesy of the Carolina RailHawks)
After two frustrating seasons, fans in WakeMed Soccer Park tonight will be excused for some hard-earned self-congratulation—and considering the woefulness of the opponent, the Cleveland City Stars, who are in 10th place with only two goals scored versus 12 allowed, they should expect to see three more points added to the Carolina RailHawks’ points column.
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Carolina RailHawks, Soccer Andriy Budnyy, Cleveland City Stars, Daniel Paladini, Gavin Glinton, Jeremy Tolleson, John Cunliffe, Martin Rennie, Sallieu Bundu
Chris Gaffney ·
10 May 2009, 12:48 AM ·
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Amir Lowery, in the air sometime during the game's first 18 minutes, before he was shown a red card for a bad mid-air challenge. (Photo courtesy of the RailHawks)
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARY—On a night when thunder and lightning knocked out an hour of power and heavy rain unequivocally defined the term fair weather fan for several dozen families who sheepishly made their mini-vanning way home, the Charleston Battery and Carolina RailHawks huffed and banged their way through 90 minutes of football.
Carolina entered the game on top of the USL-1 table and had never lost to their Southern Derby rivals, posting a 7-0 record over the past two seasons. Keeper Caleb Patterson Sewell had not conceded a goal in his RailHawks tenure and Martin Rennie was able to field his strongest side with the exception of Josh Gardner who had picked up the flu in Portland. 4,500+ fans braved the game-time tempest and were rewarded with cool weather and eerie, ominous skies. It looked like a promising night for the home side.
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Carolina RailHawks, Soccer Amir Lowery, Brian Plotkin, Caleb Patterson Sewell, Charleston Battery, Dan Antoniuk, Frankie Sanfilippo, Gavin Glinton, Matt Watson, Sallieu Bundu, Tsuyoshi Yoshitake
David Fellerath ·
1 May 2009, 2:35 PM ·
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Amir Lowery in the thick of green things in Portland (photo by Craig Mitchelldyer)
USLLIVE/ WEB—Although the RailHawks are now in command of the league table with 10 points in four outings, it’s a bit worrisome that they’ve scored only four goals in four games. Fortunately, an airtight defense, led by the central trio of Mark Schulte, Jack Stewart and Amir Lowery, hasn’t given up a goal since the season opener against Minnesota. Schulte and Lowery, furthermore, have played every minute of the season, with Stewart just a half-hour behind.
Last night, with a perfect nine points in three games, the RailHawks went to Portland for the first of two fixtures against the Portland Timbers. In a hard-fought, foul-heavy contest, the apparently tiring ’Hawks held off their hosts in the second half to escape with a point for the 0-0 draw.
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Carolina RailHawks, Soccer Amir Lowery, Caleb Patterson Sewell, Chris Seitz, Gavin Glinton, Jack Stewart, Mark Schulte, Martin Rennie, payday loan, Portland Timbers, Sallieu Bundu, Timbers Army
David Fellerath ·
15 Apr 2009, 10:21 AM ·
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The biggest news out of last night’s RailHawks’ 2-0 victory over the USL-2 Wilmington Hammerheads was the return of Matt Watson, who scored 15 minutes after entering the game in the second half.
Watson, last year’s team MVP, joined the squad yesterday after helping his indoor side, the Baltimore Blast, to the MISL championship. Furthermore, his first child was born yesterday in Baltimore.
Although the team’s press release pointedly says last night’s squad shouldn’t be considered a second team, it notes that few of the players in the evening’s lineup saw action in last Saturday’s 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Thunder. Among them: Hamed Diallo, Gavin Glinton and Brian Plotkin (the Hawks’ release inadvertently omitted Plotkin).
Other players on last night’s lineup included the back four of Jeremy Tolleson, Caleb Norkus, Paul Ritchie and trialist Brad Rusin. Midfielders included Plotkin, Glinton and Watson. Players seeing minutes up top included Aaron King and John Cunliffe (who scored the game’s second goal in the 82nd minute). Caleb Patterson manned the goal.
The RailHawks’ Tim Candon has more.
Carolina RailHawks, Soccer Aaron King, Brad Rusin, Brian Plotkin, Caleb Norkus, Caleb Patterson, friendly, Gavin Glinton, Hamed Diallo, Jeremy Tolleson, John Cunliffe, Matt Watson, Paul Ritchie
David Fellerath ·
13 Apr 2009, 12:25 AM ·
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He plays defense, he plays offense: Mark Schulte (No. 13) brings his menace to a set play in front of the Thunder goal. (photo courtesy of the Carolina RailHawks)
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARY—It was a muted opening night, with up-and-down soccer and a light crowd of 2,927. The most noise came during the first half, from the visiting North Carolina A&T University marching band’s drumline, which also livened up the halftime break.
Happily, the pitch was dry this time, unlike the underwater conditions of the two preseason matches against the New Revolution Revolution and CD Olimpia.
Perhaps compounding the atmospheric challenges in the stadium was the fact that the starting lineup consisted of 11 newcomers to Cary. Those fans who are only now tuning in would have recognized only substitutes Caleb Norkus and Hamed Diallo in uniform. Surprisingly, considering his ubiquity in the preseason, RailHawk stalwart Kupono Low was left off the lineup. [Ed. Note: See comments.]
But whether they recognized the players or not, those who were there saw the 2009 RailHawks step to the top of the league table with a 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Thunder. “it wasn’t pretty,” was the widespread overheard assessment after the game, “but it counts.” Continue reading »
Carolina RailHawks, Soccer Andriy Budnyy, Gavin Glinton, John Cunliffe, Mark Schulte, Martin Rennie, Matt Watson
David Fellerath ·
25 Mar 2009, 6:55 PM ·
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Santiago Fusilier, the tough, tenacious Argentine winger who provided more than his share of highlights on last year’s sluggish team, has dropped off the RailHawks roster.
His departure comes in a week when the team announced the signings of two veteran performers, Sierra Leone international Mustapha Sama and Turks and Caicos Island international Gavin Glinton. (Glinton, however, has a green card, which means his presence on the roster doesn’t count against the league limit of seven international players. The RailHawks presently have six internationals. See comment thread here.)
A spokesman for the team declined to comment on Fusilier. Continue reading »
Carolina RailHawks, Soccer Gavin Glinton, Martin Nuñez, Mustapha Sama, Santiago Fusilier
David Fellerath ·
24 Mar 2009, 9:38 PM ·
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You’ll recall that in Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart ran a club that was a refuge for a polyglot collection of refugees from the Nazi menace.
Things aren’t quite so dire in Cary (but with this economy, one never knows). Still, the RailHawks are showing a penchant for picking up veteran players from the farthest reaches of the globe. Continue reading »
Carolina RailHawks, Soccer Gavin Glinton, Mustapha Sama, Sallieu Bundu
David Fellerath ·
14 Mar 2009, 12:47 PM ·
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Gavin Glinton (San Jose Earthquakes)
Jarrett at Triangle Soccer Fanatics has done the work for us: He’s secured the match day roster and located some news therein:
First, there are now 25 players listed on the RailHawks roster (which doesn’t include confirmed signing Matt Watson, who is still playing for his indoor team in Baltimore). Officially, the team has 20 players, but three new names have slipped out in recent press releases, including backup keeper Brian Levey, evidently returning for another year; Devon McKenney, a defender who played last year for the Columbus Crew reserves; and Nate Norman, who played for Notre Dame before spending time with the Chicago Fire and the Charleston Battery and who, most recently, was coaching high schoolers in Michigan.
Then there are some names that haven’t emerged from official sources before now—and we’re not sure if they’re under contract. Most intriguingly, there’s a veteran striker named Gavin Glinton, a native of Turks and Caicos Island whose career has taken him to stints with the LA Galaxy, Dallas Burn, the USL’s Charleston Battery and, last season, the San Jose Earthquakes. His most productive stop was two seasons in Charleston, 2005-06, in which he scored 13 times in 26 appearances.
There’s also a third keeper, Caleb Patterson, a 21-year-old native of Australia who apparently spent last year training with Red Bull New York.
The final new name is defender and Wake Forest grad Amir Lowery, who caught Triangle Offense’s eye with his assured play when we visited training camp a month ago.
The weather will continue to be miserable, but we couldn’t be more excited about tonight’s game at WakeMed. Kickoff is 7 p.m.
Carolina RailHawks, Soccer Amir Lowery, Brian Levey, Caleb Patterson, Devon McKenney, Gavin Glinton, Matt Watson, Nate Norman
