USL Discipline Report: Week 19
Published on July 29, 2015 under United Soccer League Championship (USL) News Release
TAMPA, Fla. - Following is the USL's discipline report for Week 19 of the 2015 season:
Ten players are serving suspensions and have been fined an undisclosed amount for their actions from the previous week. The Charleston Battery's Zach Prince is in the midst of a two-game suspension for accruing his eighth caution of the season during the Battery's Friday match against Toronto FC II. Prince sat out Charleston's Sunday game against the Rochester Rhinos and will miss this Saturday's match against FC Montreal.
The Harrisburg City Islanders' Jose Barril was sent off after picking up a pair of yellow cards during the team's shorthanded victory against the Pittsburgh Riverhounds on Sunday. Barril is suspended for Harrisburg's game against the Richmond Kickers on Saturday.
Eight players picked up their fifth cautions of the season during Week 19 and will miss one game apiece in their respective Week 20 games for yellow card accumulation: Arizona United SC's Brock Granger (out for Friday's game against OKC Energy FC), the New York Red Bulls II's Mike da Fonte (out Sunday against Saint Louis FC), the Pittsburgh Riverhounds' Anthony Arena (out Saturday against Wilmington Hammerheads FC), Tulsa Roughnecks FC's Chad Bond and Sammy Ochoa (out Friday against Vancouver Whitecaps FC), Vancouver's Tyler Rosenlund (out Friday against Tulsa) and Wilmington Hammerheads FC's Brian Ackley and Tom Parratt (out Saturday against the Pittsburgh Riverhounds).
The following 30 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 Tyler Ruthven and Rob Valentino, the Austin Aztex's Kyle Hoffer, the Charleston Battery's Ricky Garbanzo, the Charlotte Independence's Alex Martinez, Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC's Kleyner Bejarano and Shintaro Harada, FC Montreal's Alessandro Riggi and Ngoufack Mélé Temguia, the LA Galaxy II's Jack McBean and Daniel Steres, Louisville City FC's Aohdan Quinn, the New York Red Bulls II's Daniel Bedoya and Andrew Jean-Baptiste, Orange County Blues FC's Chris Cortez and Christofer Ramirez, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds' Kevin Kerr, the Portland Timbers 2's Tim Payne and Rundell Winchester, Real Monarchs SLC's Adolfo Ovalle, the Richmond Kickers' Samuel Asante, the Rochester Rhinos' Christian Volesky, Saint Louis FC's Jacob Bushue, James Musa and Charles Renken, Seattle Sounders FC 2's Giuliano Frano, Sam Garza, Duncan McCormick and Amadou Sanyang, and Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2's Ben McKendry.
The Galaxy II's Andre Auras and Sacramento Republic FC's Ivan Mirkovic have accumulated seven cautions and are one yellow card away from serving a two-game suspension.
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