Week 13 pro honors announced

Hague and Watson Players of the Week
TAMPA, FL – United Soccer Leagues announced the USL First Division and USL Second Division Teams of the Week for the 13th week of the season, honoring Portland’s David Hague and Richmond’s Matt Watson as the Players of the Week, respectively.
The Portland Timbers, having trailed the leaders for most of the season with fewer games played, caught up to the pack over the weekend and climbed into first with a pair of wins over the California Victory in the friendly confines of PGE Park and was capped off with David Hague recording the league’s first hat-trick of the season.
It wasn’t quite as easy as their recent 3-0 win in San Francisco was, starting the weekend off Friday night with a 1-0 win on a Bryan Jordan goal, and their second meeting Sunday was a 1-1 draw until Gavin Wilkinson inserted Hague up top with 24 minutes remaining.
Hague, who’s one goal in his previous nine appearances was an 89
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minute 1-0 winner at California, needed just two minutes to do damage, however, scoring the game-winner in the 68
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minute when he cut back and found the back of the net from 10 yards. He latched onto a long ball from goalkeeper Josh Wicks in the 74
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to make it 2-0 and completed the hat-trick with his third two minutes from time.
Fresh off their US Open Cup upset victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer earlier in the week, the defending champion Richmond Kickers avoided a letdown with a pair of dominating performances over second-place Charlotte Eagles in a home-and-home series.
Matt Watson, who came into the weekend with just two goals and an assist, burst onto the scene with three goals and two assists in the two victories.
Watson opened the scoring just three minutes into their home game Friday night and set up Ricky Schramm to make it 2-0 in the 40
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. Charlotte answered back three minutes later only to see Watson set up Open Cup scorer David Bulow in the 45
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to restore the two-goal margin. He then added another strike in the 83
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to put the match out of reach as they prepared to visit Charlotte.
Having such a spectacular outing the night before, Watson was rested on the bench before being inserted into the second game at halftime with a 1-1 scoreline. An own goal gave Richmond the lead, and Watson scored in the 83
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minute for the second straight night to clinch the victory.