PORTLAND, Maine, April 12, 2025 – Patrick Langlois made history for Portland Hearts of Pine (0-1-2) on Saturday night when he became the first-ever goalscorer for the team in USL League One play, but his 81st-minute strike was ultimately not enough as South Georgia Tormenta FC (2-2-1) held on to win 2-1 at Tormenta Stadium.
With a Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup third round clash against Rhode Island FC coming up on Tuesday night, head coach Bobby Murphy rang the changes against Tormenta, handing Kash Oladapo, Samuel Mahlamäki Camacho, Mickey Reilly, and Jake Keegan their first starts of the season.
Tormenta, who entered the weekend with the second-best offense in the league, opened the scoring in the sixth minute when Mason Tunbridge drilled a shot past Oladapo into the bottom corner of the net from close range.
Hearts were gifted an opportunity to level the score in the 25th minute when Jackson Kasanzu crashed into Mickey Reilly in the penalty area, sending Reilly sprawling. Kasanzu got the worst of the challenge, and after receiving medical treatment was substituted for Callum Stretch. Azaad Liadi stepped up to take the penalty for Portland, but his shot down the middle was blocked by South Georgia goalkeeper Austin Pack, who thrust his left leg out in desperation while diving and knocked the ball away.
Liadi had a number of quality chances over the remainder of the first half, and was unlucky not to score on multiple occasions. In the 32nd minute he pressured Pack into coughing the ball up, only for his shot to hit the near post; in the second minute of stoppage time he came close again when he left Anatolie Prepelita flat-footed in the penalty area, but his attempt flashed wide.
With just nine minutes left in the match Liadi took Prepelita on again, but this time Prepelita brought the Hearts forward down. On a night where Tormenta picked up eight of the match’s 11 cards, that was Prepelita’s second yellow–and his second red in his last three games.
Nathan Messer, who scored a rocket of a long range goal in Portland’s 4-0 Open Cup win over C.D. Faialense on March 20, curled his free kick into the penalty area, but Pack parried it away. The ball fell to Langlois though and the Australian midfielder made no mistake with the putback, emphatically slamming the ball into the back of the net to tie the match at one apiece.
Hearts’ joy was short-lived however, as Yaniv Bazini played a long ball through that put Tormenta forward Niall Reid-Stephen one-on-one with Oladapo in the 83rd minute; Reid-Stephen slipped the ball beneath Portland’s diving goalkeeper to restore South Georgia’s lead.
NEXT UP
Portland Hearts of Pine return to Maine to face USL Championship side Rhode Island FC in the third round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup on April 15. The match will kick off at 7:00 p.m. and will be streamed live on Paramount+ and CBS Sports Golazo. Tickets are available at tickets.heartsofpine.com.
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GOALS
POR – Langlois 81’ (Messer)
TRM – Tunbridge 6’ (Walker), Reid-Stephen 83’ (Bazini)
DISCIPLINE
YC – Kasanzu (TRM ‘16), Jones-Riley (POR 31’), Bwana (TRM 31’), Prepelita (TRM 38’), Bazini (TRM 46’), Lopez (POR 69’), Prepelita (TRM 80’), Vivas (TRM 82’), Varela (POR 89’), Pack (TRM 90+3’)
RC – Prepelita (TRM 80’)
STARTING LINEUPS
Portland Hearts of Pine – Kash Oladapo, Samuel Mahlamäki Camacho (Nathan Messer 45’), Sean Vinberg, Shandon Wright, Jaden Jones-Riley, Mickey Reilly (Walter Varela 74’), Michel Poon-Angeron (Mikey Lopez 60’), Pat Langlois ©, Evan Southern (Ollie Wright 60’), Jake Keegan (Titus Washington 60’), Azaad Liadi
Unused substitutes: Hunter Morse, Masashi Wada,
South Georgia Tormenta FC – Austin Pack, Gabriel Alves, Anatolie Prepelita, Jackson Kasanzu (Callum Stretch 28’), Oscar Jimenez, Alon Drey, Gabriel De Freitas, Handwalla Bwana Sebastian Vivas 70’), Mason Tunbridge (Niall Reid-Stephen 70’), Aaron Walker ©, Yaniv Bazini (Conor Doyle 90+4’)
Unused substitutes: Samuel Jones, Thabo Nare, Joseph Perez, Finnley O’Brien, Liam Healy