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Men’s hummel F-League Week 9 Review
Dural controls Men’s hummel F-League
A double Dural Warriors victory keeps them in command of the Men’s hummel F-League premiership, with only East Coast Heat and Vic Vipers a chance of running them down to the title.
Dural Warriors beat Boomerangs FS 5-4 and Capital FC 8-1 to move five points clear of East Coast following their 11-3 win over Capital FC and 3-3 draw with Boomerangs FS. Vic Vipers defeated South Brisbane 14-1 to stay in the trophy hunt.
Dural Warriors (30) leading East Coast Heat (25), Vic Vipers (19), Sydney Scorpions (19), Boomerangs FS (16) and St Albans Strikers (16).
Fernando De Moraes (Vic Vipers) leads the Golden Boot race with 18 strikes, two ahead of Jose Portillo (St Albans Strikers) with Mark Symington (Sydney Scorpions), Chris Zeballos (East Coast Heat) and Jarrod Basger (Dural Warriors) all on 14 goals for the season. Daniel Bennett (Boomerangs FS) has 12, Danny Martinez (Sydney Scorpions) 11 and Michael Rinaudo (Capital FC) 10.
Warriors nip Boomerangs
Dural Warriors kept their unbeaten run with a 5-4 win over Boomerangs FS at the AIS Training Halls on Saturday morning.
Dural Warriors took a 2-0 halftime advantage through Bruno Pivato and Tobias Seeto. Callum Smith pegged one back from Boomerangs FS in the second half before Chris Polkinghorne, Jarrod Basger and Daine Merrin extended Dural’s lead to 5-1. A Robbie Cattanach hat-trick for the home side and red card dismissal of key Dural player Greg Giovenali put Boomerangs FS back in it in the final stages of the match, but Dural Warriors hang on to claim a 5-4 win.
Boomerangs FS haven’t beaten Dural Warriors since 2011.
Boomerangs FS 4 (Rob Cattanach 3, Callum Smith) Dural Warriors 5 (Jarrod Basger, Chris Polkinghorne, Tobias Seeto, Daine Merrin, Bruno Pivato)
Heat sizzle Capital
East Coast Heat burnt Capital FC 11-3 at the AIS Training Halls on Saturday afternoon to notch up a sixth straight win and keep a bit of pressure on leaders Dural Warriors.
Remarkably the score was 1-1 at halftime, with both sides opening up in a defence-free second term (12 goals scored) that finished with East Coast well on top, Chris Zeballos and Michael Loupis bagging hat-tricks and Diego Bellardo and Jun Arima collecting a brace each.
Capital FC 3 (Michael Rinaudo 10’, Aidan Brown 27’, Richard Moon 38’) East Coast Heat 11 (Chris Zeballos 22’, 22’, 33’, Michael Loupis 19’, 31’, 38’, Diego Bellardo 28’, 33’, Jun Arima 24’, 38’, Lev Lewis 21’)
Dural claim Capital
Dural Warriors disposed of Capital FC 8-1 at Canberra’s AIS Training Halls on Saturday afternoon to make it 10 successive victories, daylight and five points clear of anyone else.
Dural Warriors led 5-0 at half time through a brace from Chris Polkinghorne and goals to Bruno Pivato, Jarrod Basger, Kaan Kilinc.
Brad Sawyer got Capital FC on the board in the second half however Basger completed his hat trick to see Dural Warriors win 8-1.
The result equal’s Dural’s 10-game unbeaten run from when they won the 2012 premiership (a hummel F-League record).
Capital FC 1 (Brad Sawyer) Dural Warriors 8 (Jarrod Basger 3, Chris Polkinghorne 2, Bruno Pivato, Kaan Kilinc, Tobias Seeto)
Boomerangs, Heat draw
Boomerangs FS battled out a dramatic 3-3 draw with East Coast Heat at the AIS Training Halls on Saturday evening.
Boomerangs FS were a little rattled by their earlier 5-4 loss to Dural Warriors but responded well to open the scoring in the 7th minute through Jake Wilsener. However Chris Zeballos and Jamie Amendolia took East Coast Heat to a 2-1 lead at half time with goals in the 10th and 17th minutes respectively.
Daniel Bennett leveled things up at 2-2 in the 30th minute, before Harley Da Silva gave East Coast Heat the edge in the 31st minute. However this was short lived when Michael Reeve leveled things up again in the 32ndminute. The teams shared a 3-3 draw, which leaves East Coast Heat trailing Dural Warriors by 5 points.
Boomerangs FS 3 (Daniel Bennett, Jake Wilsener, Michael Reeve) East Coast Heat 3 (Chris Zeballos, Harley Da Silva, Jun Arima)
Vipers wipe Brisbane
Vic Vipers racked up the goals in a 14-1 romp over South Brisbane at Eagles Sports Complex on Sunday morning.
Fernando De Moraes bagged five, Miguel Barrigos three, Gavin Schipp a pair, and Ange Fusca, Adam Cooper, Matthew Vragovski and Vinicius Leite all added to the scoresheet to turn a cruisy 6-1 halftime buffer into a dominant double-figure win.
It was the hummel F-League’s second-highest winning margin behind Dural’s 20-1 victory against St Albans in 2012, and it kept the defending premiers in with a slight chance to reign in leaders Warriors, who they trail by 11 points with five matches remaining (two of them against Dural).
South Brisbane 1 (Rhys Pope 7’) Vic Vipers 14 (Fernando De Moraes 8’, 12’, 14’, 15’, 40’, Miguel Barrigos 21’, 23’, 25’, Gavin Schipp 3’, 28’, Angelo Fusca 33’, Adam Cooper 24’, Matthew Vragovski 32’, Vinicius Leite 20’)
Next Games:
Some key match-ups next weekend will provide a closer outline to the finals outlook with Vic Vipers hosting Dural Warriors in a much-anticipated 2013 grand final replay at YMCA Derrimut Health and Aquatic Centre on Saturday (12pm), St Albans Strikers having a crack at Dural Warriors at the same venue later in the afternoon (3.30pm). On Sunday at YMCA Derrimut Health and Aquatic Centre it’s Vic Vipers against East Coast Heat (12pm) followed by St Albans Strikers versus East Coast Heat (3.30pm), while South Brisbane battle Capital FC at Queensland’s Eagle Sports Complex (2.45pm).
Womens hummel F-League Week 9 Review
Last two standing in Womens hummel F-League
High tension in the Women’s hummel F-League as Dural Warriors fell 2-1 to both Boomerangs and Capital FC in the ACT, and South Brisbane battled out an enthralling 4-4 draw with Vic Vipers up north, which has set up an exciting race to see who will make it through to the Women’s hummel F-League Semi Finals.
With two weekends left to play Sydney Scorpions (17) head Boomerangs FS (15) at the top of the table, Dural Warriors (9), South Brisbane (9), Vic Vipers (7) and Capital FC (6).
Dural Warriors, South Brisbane, Vic Vipers and Capital FC all have three round matches remaining, while Sydney Scorpions and Boomerangs FS only have two, which sets up an exciting top-four sprint and race to the premiership.
The 2014 Golden Boot is also a tight fit with Gabrielle Marzano (South Brisbane) and Caitlyn Jarvie (Sydney Scorpions) leading the pack with seven goals, just one ahead of Doris Osman (Boomerangs) who has six, with Najwa Allen (Capital), Dominique Caridad (Warriors), Filiz Urkanci (Scorpions), Jo Anne Saliba (Scorpions), Hayley Buckingham (Boomerangs) and Nikola Orgill (Boomerangs) all on five goals each for winter. This is closely followed by Georgina Bridges (South Brisbane), Nadia Nisbet (Boomerangs), Georgia Plessas (Boomerangs), Laura Donnelly (Scorpions), Renee Tomkins (Scorpions) who all have four each.
On another note, Capital’s Olivia Gurney became the F-League’s 99th women’s scorer over the weekend (for a total of 434 goals in 81 gripping contests), who will be number 100?
Boomerangs outdo Dural
Boomerangs FS sweated hard to win 2-1 against a spirited Dural Warriors at the AIS Training Halls on Saturday morning.
Hayley Buckingham and Ariella Cabezas traded first-half strikes and an exciting and tense second term was only broken by a second Buckingham goal to hand Boomerangs full points and move them two behind leaders Sydney Scorpions.
Boomerangs have now won four on the trot against Dural Warriors, three of them close-call one-goal victories, and Buckingham has now scored four goals in three games against Dural Warriors.
Boomerangs are still the F-League master of the close-call having won all seven contests decided by a goal.
Boomerangs FS 2 (Hayley Buckingham 10’,31’) Dural Warriors 1 (Ariella Cabezas 12’)
Capital withhold Warriors
Capital FC accounted for Dural Warriors 2-1 at the AIS Training Halls on Saturday afternoon to stay right in contention for a maiden hummel F-League finals position.
Dural Warriors opened the scoring through Dominque Caridad in the 15th minute, before Olivia Gurney pegged one back for Capital FC right on half time.
Capital FC then took the lead through Najwa Allen in the 25th minute and Capital FC held on for a terrific 2-1 win and move three points behind joint-third Dural Warriors and South Brisbane with three games still to play (two of them against the Queenslanders).
The hapless Dural Warriors sure know how to break a heart, half of their total 10 losses in the last two hummel F-League seasons have been decided by the narrowest of margins against them.
Capital FC 2 (Olivia Gurney 20’, Najwa Allen 25’) Dural Warriors 1 (Dominique Caridad 15’)
Brisbane, Vics draw
South Brisbane and Vic Vipers fought out an entertaining 4-4 draw at Eagles Sports Complex on Sunday morning.
The sides went at each other tooth-and-nail to take a 3-3 draw into halftime, the crowd and tension at fever pitch as traded second-half blows ended with the game still locked up at 4-4.
Natalie Tathem, Georgina Bridges, Nichole Laws and Sarah Amorim scored for the home team and Sienna Fogarty, Jamalia Hull and Elaina Vatcky hit the back of the net for Vics, leaving the teams one goalscorer short of the hummel F-League high-eight in a 9-1 Sydney Scorpions win over Dural Warriors earlier this winter.
After eight straight interstate losses Vic Vipers have now taken points from their last two outings, the result the closest the Vics have come to beating South Brisbane in four hummel F-League meetings.
The 4-4 deadlock was also South Brisbane’s sixth hummel F-League draw in total (equal high with Sydney Scorpions), enduring an amazing five stalemates in their past 11 games.
South Brisbane 4 (Natalie Tathem 7’, Georgina Bridges 9’, Nichole Laws 19’, Sarah Amorim 25’) Vic Vipers 4 (Sienna Fogarty 8’, Jamalia Hull 11’, Elaina Vatcky 24’)
Next games:
A couple of big games next weekend as Vic Vipers meet Dural Warriors at YMCA Derrimut Health and Aquatic Centre on Saturday afternoon (1.45pm) and South Brisbane tackle Capital FC at Eagle Sports Complex on Sunday afternoon (1pm).