USL Discipline Report: Week 18
July 21, 2015 - United Soccer League Championship (USL) News Release
TAMPA, Fla. - Following is the USL's discipline report for Week 18 of the 2015 season:
Six players will be serving suspensions and fined an undisclosed amount for their actions from Week 18. Seattle Sounders FC 2's Sergio Mota, who was sent off during S2's 1-1 draw against Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC on Saturday, will be suspended for two games for violent conduct. The Brazilian will miss Friday's home match against the Portland Timbers 2 and a road game against Sacramento Republic FC on Aug. 1.
Orange County Blues FC's Brenton Griffiths and the Harrisburg City Islanders' Dante Leverock each picked up two cautions and were sent off in their respective Week 18 matches. Griffiths will be unavailable for Saturday's game against Real Monarchs SLC and Leverock will miss Harrisburg's Sunday match against the Pittsburgh Riverhounds.
The Charleston Battery's Maikel Chang, Rochester Rhinos' Mike Garzi and S2's Damion Lowe will serve one-game suspensions for yellow card accumulation. Chang and Garzi are out for Sunday's Battery-Rhinos match and Lowe is suspended for Seattle's match against T2 on Friday.
The following 23 players have been issued four yellow cards thus far this season and are one away from serving suspensions for yellow card accumulation: Arizona United SC's Brock Granger, Tyler Ruthven and Rob Valentino, the Austin Aztex's Kyle Hoffer, the Charlotte Independence's Alex Martinez, Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC's Kleyner Bejarano and Shintaro Harada, FC Montreal's Ngoufack Mélé Temguia, the Harrisburg City Islanders' Jose Barril, the LA Galaxy II's Jack McBean, Louisville City FC's Aohdan Quinn, the New York Red Bulls II's Daniel Bedoya, Mike da Fonte and Andrew Jean-Baptiste, Orange County Blues FC's Chris Cortez and Christofer Ramirez, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds' Anthony Arena and Kevin Kerr, the Portland Timbers 2's Tim Payne, the Richmond Kickers' Samuel Asante, the Rochester Rhinos' Christian Volesky, Saint Louis FC's James Musa and Seattle Sounders FC 2's Giuliano Frano.
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