Crystal Palace opened their season this past Friday evening at UMBC Stadium in Catonsville. A crowd of just over 2,000 people saw the home team fight to a scoreless draw against the visiting Pittsburgh Riverhounds.

From the team website:

Pittsburgh’s only real chance of the first half came on 25 minutes when Justin Evans headed goalwards but Brian Rowland in the Palace net pulled off an excellent save to keep his side in the game. On 35 minutes, Dan Lader had the ball in the back of the Pittsburgh net, but was adjudged to have been in an offside position from Zack Flores’ pinpoint cross.

The second half saw Palace take more of the initiative, but scoring opportunities were still few and far between. After quarter of an hour, Brian Rowland looked to have come to Palace’s rescue once again with a point blank stop on Sean Cameron’s effort on the six yard line, but the play was ruled offside by the officials. Palace began to look more dangerous over the final twenty minutes of the match, with second half substitute Pat Healey behind most of the newfound attacking creativity. But neither side was able to break the deadlock

The next game for Crystal Palace is this Friday night against Bermuda. More information can be found here.

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