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If one hopes to be among the leading
goalscorers it would help if you were named Ryan (boys) and
Emily or Mikaela (girls). Six different boys named Ryan scored
goals, while Emily and Mikaela each provided three.
The Met East girls were the only team to go through the
Championships without conceding a goal.
After being runners-up
in 2006 and finishing joint-second last year, Metropolitan
East claimed the Queensland School Sports 12 years and under
Girls State Football Championships crown with a last-round 1-0
victory over Wide Bay yesterday. Met East had trailed the Bay by
two points heading into the day, but they had a game in hand
over them, and they did exactly what was required, taking the
lead with a 1-0 win over Northern to start their day, then
repeating the dose against the host region, with co-captain
Gemma Owens the biggest hero by scoring the goals in both of
their games.
It was Wide Bay’s only loss of the carnival and despite being
bridesmaids for the second year in a row, Coach Paul Ash was
“extremely proud’’ of his side and happy to receive the
Runners-up Shield after accumulating 35 points, five fewer than
Met East. “I couldn’t have asked for anything more in that last
game - Met East got a through-ball for a one-on-one with the
keeper and they finished it off – it was the only shot they had
all game,’’ Ash said. “We probably had three or four shots but
none that really troubled the keeper but I was extremely happy
and the girls were happy with what they had achieved already in
the carnival, whether we won, drew or lost. “Lexi and Ella
Flack, who was named as a shadow Queensland player, were our two
real stand-outs but Jaymee Gay was also very solid for us at the
back, and the rest were very, very good.’’ Vince Habermann
The stage is set for an epic
last-round clash between Wide Bay and Metropolitan East at
Martens Oval today, with the game to decide the winner of the
Queensland School Sport 12 years and under Girls State Football
Championships. Yesterday, Wide Bay retained a two-point lead on
the ladder over Met East, sharing the points in a 1-1 draw with
South Coast and downing Peninsula 2-0, and with Met East
outgunning South West 4-0 but being held to a scoreless draw
against Capricornia. Met East have a game in hand over the host
region, but regardless of the result of their first-up clash
with Northern, they and the Bay will go into their duel later in
the morning with a maximum of two points separating the pair,
although their positions going into the game will decide their
respective tactics, with four points on offer for a win, two for
a draw and one for a loss. Vince Habermann
Host region Wide Bay moved
to the top of the Queensland School Sport 12 years and under
Girls State Championships table by maintaining their undefeated
record with two wins and a draw yesterday. They now have 28
points to their credit with six wins and two draws, and they are
two points clear of the also unbeaten Metropolitan East, who are
probably still favourites for the title as they have played one
less game than Wide Bay.
Met East had just two games for the day, with Shannon O’Connor
featuring with a double in a 3-0 dispatch of Darling Downs, but
neither side was able to break through in a battle royale
against Met West. Their Team Manager Norm McNamara described the
Met West game as “very hard’’. “Both sides played well but they
probably wanted it more – we had a few chances but couldn’t bury
them,’’ McNamara said. McNamara said O’Connor “did very well’’
against the Downs, while co-captain Gemma Owens was their other
goal getter. “Amber Manson also did very well this morning in
the backs, Jamee Woolf was very strong today – she ran hard all
day – also Nadine Magee had two super games, and Maddison
‘Dinosaur’ Johnson sat out the first game with her injury but
came back and played a big part in the second,’’ he said.
McNamara also said he and coach Ann-Louise Edwards are “very
pleased’’ with their six wins and one draw so far and the fact
that they have not conceded a goal. “But there are four hard
games to go and we will have to keep working hard for the rest
of it,’’ he said.
Yesterday started well for Sunshine Coast with a 1-0 win over
Northern thanks to a Kari O’Brien goal, but their day got worse,
playing out a scoreless draw with Met North, then being edged
out by Wide Bay. Vince HabermannMetropolitan East’s girls are the only team to have a perfect record from five matches so far at the Queensland School Sport 12 years and under State Football Championships at Martens Oval after chalking up two more wins yesterday. They are on top of the table with 20 points, but the Wide Bay girls are just two points behind after also remaining undefeated with two wins and a draw yesterday, while Sunshine Coast (17) and Capricornia (15), and Met West and South Coast, who are each on 14, are also still in contention.
Met East continued on their winning ways with Jamee Woolf
snatching a double to lead them home 4-0 against North West, but
Team Manager Norm McNamara said they only “got away with it in
the end’’ against Met North 1-0, courtesy of a goal to
co-captain Gemma Owens. “We played very well in the first half
against North West but we made a few changes and struggled for a
bit of cohesion but still finished four-goal winners,’’ McNamara
said. Vince Habermann
Metropolitan East made the best possible start to the girls
division of the Queensland School Sport 12 years and under State
Football Championships at Martens Oval yesterday, winning each
of their three matches. They were each by just 1-0 score-lines -
against South Coast, Peninsula and Sunshine Coast respectively –
but a win is a win, and they head the points’ table after day
one, although one other team also finished the afternoon with a
perfect record so far, albeit in just two games played – host
region Wide Bay. Vince Habermann
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| Ellie Papalexiou | 9 | STH CST |
| Kari O’Brien | 6 | SUN CST |
| Taitum Bohm | 6 | MW |
| Amber Jennings | 5 | DD |
| Jemima Russell | 4 | DD |
| Alessa Aloia | 4 | PEN |
| Emily Benton | 4 | STH CST |
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | PTS |
| ME | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 40 |
| WB | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 35 |
| STH CST | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 34 |
| CAP | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 31 |
| MW | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 29 |
| SUN CST | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 6 | 28 |
| DD | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 25 |
| MN | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 24 |
| NORTH | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 21 |
| PEN | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 19 |
| SW | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 23 | 13 |
| NW | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 31 | 13 |
Sunshine Coast 4 d Peninsula 0
Kari O’Brien 2, Larissa Crummer, Chelsea Martin
Met West 2 d South West 0
Taitum Bohm, Lauren Brimelow
Capricornia 1 d Darling Downs
Georgina Adnum
Met East 1 d South Coast 0
Ayesha
Wide Bay 4 d North West 0
Madeline Sullivan 3, Morgan Reimer
Northern 1 drew Met North 1
N - Mikaela Altadonna
MN - Olivia Roney
Sunshine Coast 2 d South West 0
Larissa Crummer, Kari O’Brien
Met East 1 d Peninsula 0
Ayesha
Capricornia 1 drew Met West 1
CAP - Caitlyn Allen McMahon
MW - Kaitlyn Winter
South Coast 6 d North West 1
SC - Bronte Rose 2, Ellie Papalexiou, Tiarne Petterwood, Bethany
Pinchin, Emily Benton
NW - Nakita Daley
Northern 1 drew Darling Downs 1
N - Sarah Piggott
DD - Kaylah Brackin
Wide Bay 1 d Met North 0
Morgan Reimer
Capricorn 2 d South West 0
Katelyn Muller 2
Met East 1 d Sunshine Coast 0
Gemma Owens
Peninsula 4 d North West 0
Alessa Aloia 2, Tahlia Ure, Mikaela Gallagher
Northern 0 drew Met West 0
South Coast 1 d Met North 0
Ellie Papalexiou
Wide Bay 4 d Darling Downs 2
WB Rachel Sparozvich, Emil Drinovac, Jaymee Gay, Mary-Catherine
Aylward
DD Amber Jennings 2
Met East 4 d North West 0
Jamee Woolf 2, Erin Woodvine, Alice Langholt
Sunshine Coast 2 d Capricornia 0
Shannon Keong, Maddy Phelps
Northern 4 d South West 1
N Claire Urquhart 2, Casey Gilmore, Mikaela Stollznow
SW Kimberley Bowman
Met North 0 drew Peninsula 0
South Coast 2 d Darling Downs 0
Ellie Papalexiou 2
Wide Bay 2 d Met West 2
WB Emily Drinovac, Amber Maxwell
MW Kate Lawson, Taitum Bohm
Capricornia 1 d North 0
Megan Hellmuth
Sunshine Coast 6 d North West 0
Emily Towle 2, Chelsea Martin, Maddy Phelps, Kari O’Brien,
Isobel Dalton
Met East 1 d Met North 0
Gemma Owens
Met West 2 d South Coast 1
MW Taitum Bohm, Lauren Brimelow
SC Emma Papelexiou
Wide Bay 3 d South West 0
Lexi Core, Ella Flack, Emily Drinovac
Darling Downs 3 d Peninsula 1
DD Amber Jennings 2, Zhane Jackson
PEN Own Goal
Met North 2 d North West 0
Britney Ross, Zanie Van Der Walt
Sunshine Coast 1 d Northern 0
Kari O’Brien
Wide Bay 0 drew Capricornia 0
Met East 3 d Darling Downs 0
Shannon O’Connor 2, Gemma Owens
Met West 2 d Peninsula 0
Olivia Lawler, Taitum Bohm
South Coast 1 d South West 0
Nyomi Devine
Wide Bay 2 d Northern 0
Rachel Sparozvich, Ella Flack
Sunshine Coast 0 drew Met North 0
Darling Downs 3 d Nth West 0
Jemima Russell 2, Melony Baker
South Coast 0 d Capricornia 0
Met West 0 d Met East 0
Peninsula 2 d South West 0
Madison Cater, Alessia Aloia
Met North 1 d Darling Downs 0
Olivia Roney
Wide Bay 1 d Sunshine Coast 0
Morgan Reimer
Met West 2 d North West 0
Taitum Bohm, Laura Welfare
South Coast 1 d Northern 0
Ella Papalexiou
Met East 4 d South West 0
Delenn Palmer, Jessica Burns, Maddison Johnson, Alice Langholt
Peninsula 0 drew Capricornia 0
Darling Downs 3 d Sunshine Coast 0
Grace Krautz, Amber Jennings, Jemima Russell
Wide Bay 1 drew South Coast 1
WB Mary-Catherine Aylward
SC Emily Benton
Northern 2 d Peninsula 1
Mikaela Stollznow, Carly Ebenstelli
Met West 1 drew Met North 1
MW Kate Lawson
MN Emma Orme
Capricornia 0 drew Met East 0
South West 0 drew North West 0
Darling Downs 2 d Met West 0
Jemima Russell, Melony Baker
South Coast 3 d Sunshine Coast 0
Emily Benton, Ellie Papalexiou, Tiarne Petterwood
Wide Bay 2 d Peninsula 0
Ella Flack, Lexie Core
Met North 3 d South West 0
Analiese Stitt 3
Capricornia 3 d North West 0
Kristen Predebon, Katelyn Muller, Hannah Giannangelo
Met East 1 d Northern 0
Gemma Owens
Sunshine Coast 1 d Met West 1
SC Kari O’Brien
MW Taitum Bohm
South Coast 4 d Peninsula 2
Ellie Papalexiou 2, Bronte Rose, Emily Benton
P Chloe Reppel, Alessia Aloia
Met East 1 d Wide Bay 0
Gemma Owens
South West 0 drew Darling Downs 0
North 0 drew North West 0
Capricornia 1 d Met North 0
Kristen Predebon
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| 7 | Katelyn Muller |
| 8 | Megan Hellmuth |
| 9 | Kristen Predebon |
| 10 | Olivia Dean |
| 11 | Chelsea Wood |
| 12 | Megan Evans |
| 13 | Georgina Adnum |
| 14 | Chamindi Rosayro |
| Manager | Katrina Walker |
| Coach | Megan Slean |
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| 10 | Jamee Woolf |
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| 13 | Shannon O’Connor |
| 14 | Delenn Palmer |
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| Coach | Ann-Louise Edwards |
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| 2 | Lydia Scheer |
| 3 | Olivia Roney |
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| 10 | Laura Welfare |
| 11 | Gabrielle Hein |
| 12 | Casey Hogan |
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| Manager | Donna Fredrickson |
| Coach | Kerry Donnellan |
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| Michael Haydock | South Coast |
| Jake Wallett | Sunshine Coast |
| Pierce Wylie | Met West |
| Buddy Rahman | Met East |
| Ryan Baldwin | South Coast |
| Michael Morrow | Met North |
| Reece Dalton | Sun Coast |
| Callum Phillips | Sun Coast |
| Mark Willett | South Coast |
| Ben Romyn | Capricornia |
| Nicholas Cecil | Met East |
| Todd Norris | South Coast |
| Sanjeyan Sivaananthan | Met West |
| Scott Halliday | Met North |
Capricornia
Darling
Downs
Metropolitan
East
Metropolitan
North
Metropolitan
West
North
Western
Northern
Peninsula
South
Coast
South
West
Sunshine
Coast
Wide
Bay
South Coast
overcame an early scare to clinch the 2008 Queensland School
Sport 12 years and under Boys State Football Championships title
with a last-round 4-1 victory over a valiant but outclassed Wide
Bay at Martens Oval yesterday. Needing to win to claim the
title, they could have pushed the panic button after the host
region drew first blood via Matthew Keen in just the fourth
minute. But like the good side that they are, South Coast
maintained their composure and equalised five minutes later
through Morgan Saunders, and proceeded to put their stamp on the
match by taking a 3-1 half-time advantage, with inspirational
captain Todd Norris giving them the lead and Mark Willett
establishing a two-goal buffer.
They never relented, finishing with four individual scorers,
with Tasar Malone putting the icing on the cake. Their coach
Damien Butler was full of praise for his side. “Naturally I was
a bit concerned when they (Wide Bay) scored first, but we
started to play football and didn’t panic which was great,’’
Butler said. “It was a good performance to come from behind –
there was a lot of pressure on because if we had not won, we
could have finished second or third. “Captain Todd Norris played
very well all week at centre-half but we had no-one who stood
out above anyone else – it was just a great team effort today
and all week – we created the chances and we scored them – the
team just worked hard for each other and played to a system.’’
Despite having surged from being in a group of four teams in
equal-fifth place the previous morning to hit the lead by the
end of that day, with three wins and a series of other results
falling their way, no-one could deny they were very worthy
champions after finishing the tournament with seven wins and
four draws from 11 matches. “To be unbeaten is pretty amazing –
maybe it is the first time it has been done – Met East losing to
Wide Bay yesterday opened the door for us, but we kept turning
up, and that’s the excitement of the last day,’’ Butler said.
South Coast also took home the Macgregor Cup for the “Best City
Team’’ after beating Met East by a mere one point for that
honour. To be crowned as outright champions was also sweet after
sharing the title with Metropolitan West in 2006 and with
Metropolitan East 12 months ago.
Norris and Willett were their only two players who were also
part of their joint-championship winning team of last year. The
pair were rewarded for their excellence with selection in the
Queensland team to contest the nationals in Victoria next month,
while team-mates, goal-keeper Michael Haydock and Ryan Baldwin
were also included as South Coast fittingly gained the biggest
state representation in the squad of 14. Sunshine Coast achieved
the second largest contingent with three – Jake Wallett, Reece
Dalton and Callum Phillips – while two players each from the
three Metropolitan sides also made the cut, along with one from
Capricornia.
In other day five matches, Met East and Met North finished as
joint-runners up, just two points behind South Coast, by
defeating Darling Downs 1-0 and Capricornia 2-1 respectively.
Northern were just one point away in fourth position after
battling out a scoreless draw with Sunshine Coast and accounting
for Met West 1-0, while Sunshine Coast were hot on their heels
in fifth place after signing off with a Callum Phillips goal
clinching a 1-0 win over a South West side which played their
hearts out.
Earlier in the morning, there was much joy among both North West
and South West as they both recorded their first result of the
week by playing out a fitting and highly spirited 1-1 draw with
Liam Sweeney and Sam Schaefer respectively scoring their teams’
first and only goals of the tournament. North West were also
very competitive in a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Peninsula in
their last game later in the morning.
Capricornia and Northern were joint-winners of the Ray Leschkie
Shield for the “Best Country team’’ after finishing equal-first
on those points’ standings with 21 each, three clear of Darling
Downs and Peninsula.
South
Coast’s boys found their second wind to win each of their
three day four matches in the 2008 Queensland School Sport 12
years and under State Football Championships at Martens Oval
yesterday and take the lead before today’s shorter last group
of matches. Metropolitan West had been listed as leaders after
the third day’s play, but it was discovered that the referees
had incorrectly recorded the result of their clash with
Metropolitan East on Tuesday, with Met East winning 3-0, not
losing as had been shown. With the recalculation, Met East were
the actual leaders on 27 points, with Met North on 24, followed
by Met West and Northern on 22, and Capricornia, Darling Downs,
South Coast and Sunshine Coast each on 20. But South Coast did
everything asked of them, with a penalty by captain Todd Norris
early in the second half enough to clinch a 1-0 victory over
Northern, Morgan Saunders breaking the shackles in a 6-0
shut-out of South West with Norris again among the scorers, and
second half strikes by Norris and Saunders securing a 2-0
victory at the expense of Peninsula.
Many other results fell their way, to leave them surprise
leaders after two days of modest returns on Monday and Tuesday,
now with a tally of 32 points, two more than Met East and Met
North, with Met West fourth on 28, but with just one match
remaining today, they are out of contention. However, Northern,
who in equal fifth place with Capricornia on 27, can still
pilfer the silverware if they are successful in their two
remaining games against Sunshine Coast and Met West respectively
and in the unlikely event of South Coast, Met East and Met North
losing the one game each which they have left against Wide Bay,
Darling Downs and Capricornia respectively.
Met East played twice yesterday, drawing with Met North 1-1 in a
result which set back both sides, and suffering a costly 1-0
loss to Wide Bay, while Met North scored a good 3-0 win over
Darling Downs later in the afternoon. Met West’s two appearances
resulted in a 1-1 draw with Darling Downs and a 2-0 dispatch of
Capricornia, while Northern put their disappointment against
South Coast behind them by outgunning North West 6-0 with
Brendan Garner continuing his great form with a four-goal
haul. Capricornia defeated North West 2-0 with another double to
Ben Romyn, but they were unable to capitalise, then battling out
a scoreless draw with Sunshine Coast before falling short
against Met West. The Downs and Sunshine Coast kicked off the
morning program with a scoreless draw, and neither side was able
to do enough after that to stay in the title hunt.
South Coast manager Steve Rowell said despite the skinny margin
against Northern, they
“played well for most of the game but couldn’t put it in’’. “In
our second game, South West, to their credit, played really well
and it was only in the last 10 minutes that we got on top, and
Peninsula was a really hard game, but the boys got in with
couple of scrappy goals, but there is not much between them,’’
Rowell said. Rowell attributes their position at the top to a
“good team effort’’ in which Norris has led from the front. “We
have no stars but the kids are playing really well – basically
we have gelled well as a team - our defence has really stood out
– they are a great bunch kids who have been put in positions
there that they have been converted to because most of them are
not defenders by trade, they are midfielders - Justin Coulson,
Alastair Powell, Jordan McPherson, Ryan Baldwin and Mark Willis
- it has been a big ask but they have all played tremendously
for us with only three goals against us.’’
Rowell admits they were “pretty lucky’’ to re-surface to the
head of affairs, but he is taking nothing for granted,
especially after Wide Bay’s upset victory over Met East
yesterday. “Things fell our way a bit (yesterday) but anything
can happen – we had one player who missed our first five games
through injury but he is now fit and well, and we will play it
as a grand final,’’ he said.
Wide Bay’s giant-killing ambush of Met East was their second win
for the day after they had broken a six-match losing streak with
Matthew Keen hammering in two goals in a 4-0 victory over South
West to start their morning, but in between the two good
performances, they were given a reality check, being blown away
4-1 by Peninsula with doubles to Gieseppe Cavaliera and MacLean
Simpson. Wide Bay coach Troy Robert` was pleased after they
finally put it together to defeat Met East, with Keen’s first
half goal enough to grab victory. “We should have been doing it
for the last few days, but we have been fighting hard but losing
– we have had so many losses to Brisbane teams, but some have
been close ones,’’ Robert` said. “We finally found a bit of
character today and a passion for football again, and tried to
have a bit of fun. “All did well today but our goal-keeper
Connor Skopp has been outstanding the whole tournament and he
has kept us in a couple of games – he is the master of one on
one’s and I don’t think anyone has beaten him in that
situation.’’ Despite their disappointing previous results,
Robert said many other have also performed consistently well all
week including Keen and Connor Reeves up front, Josh Ihle in the
back-line, and co-captains Joel Haack and Coen Sealey in the
midfield.’’
Robert knows it will again be tough in their last match today
with South Coast playing for the trophy.
“But we want another win to try and climb one more wrung on the
ladder,’’ he said. South West have not won a match but they
would certainly be up there with the best if there were rewards
for effort, and their goal-keeper Zarick Janke said they have
improved with every game after having had just one team training
session, which did not have a 100% attendance due to the huge
distances involved, before arriving in Bundaberg. He also said
sweeper Jye Hartwig had “helped (him) out a lot’’, but that
every player had enjoyed what for most is their first state
football carnival, and that they had all learnt a lot.
Metropolitan West
retained the lead in the Queensland School Sport 12 years
and under Boys State Championships at Martens Oval despite
suffering their first loss of the tournament and winning just
one of their three day three matches yesterday. With two days to
go, they are now on 25 points, just one in advance of fellow
Metropolitan sides East and North after the former also had to
settle for one win, one draw and one loss yesterday, but the
latter was the big mover with two wins and a draw with Met West.
But the carnival is not just about results, and North West and
South West are also very much winners despite each losing all of
their seven matches so far. The difficulties experienced by both
regions is assembling and preparing their teams are enormous,
with North Western alone covering a huge area twice the size of
the state of Victoria, from Mt Isa to Birdsville, to Longreach
and Alpha. Due to the distance involved, they did not even have
their first training session as a team until after arriving in
Bundaberg last Friday, and coach Nigel Grevett said they are
improving with each game. “We have had a few relative good
results, and some of our players are also doing very well, like
our goal-keeper Drew Conway, Gary Cutting who has been playing
in defence, and Patrick Careless in the central-midfield,’’
Grevett said.
Back at the top, Met West stumbled to a 2-0 defeat at the hands
of Sunshine Coast to kick off yesterday’s program, but while
they rebounded strongly to shut-out Met East 3-0 with Tom
Webster coming to the fore with a double, they had to share the
points with Met North 1-1 to finish their day’s work.
By contrast, Met East began with Nicholas Cecil and Nicholas
Buckley both doubling up in a 6-0 victory over South West, but
they hit a brick wall against Met West and were a little flat in
a scoreless draw against Peninsula at the end of a long day.
Tynan Roussety also racked up a double as Met North scored a
clinical 5-0 win over North West, but they made a statement by
defeating Sunshine Coast 2-1, and while they were the only side
to be unbeaten for the day in three matches, they missed the
chance to move to the top of the table when they relinquished a
1-0 half-time lead against Met West to have to be satisfied with
the draw. Their Team Manager Peter Haslett said they had really
fired up for the Sunshine Coast showdown. “It’s what we call a
derby game – there’s traditional rivalry, and we scored two
goals to be up 2-0 at half-time,’’ Haslett said. “There was
pressure on us in the second half and we conceded a penalty
about 10 minutes from the end, and then we basically had to
defend - they were more at our goal than we were at theirs but
we managed to hold them for a 2-1 win, and even Sunny Coast
coach Chris Dunk conceded we were the better team, and we
certainly were in the first half.
“Then against Met West, we have never defeated them but we have
had a draw in the past, and it happened again - we got the first
goal in the first half (through Michael Morrow) after their
keeper dropped the ball, but in the second half, we were under
the pump a bit and gave away another free kick in the penalty
area which tied it up five minutes from the end. From there,
basically both teams had opportunities but the defence stopped
both teams scoring.’’ Haslett said all their players are doing
well, with keeper and captain Andre Jannese controlling the
backs and working together with Ryan Roderick, who “controls the
midfield to the forwards’’.
Despite their points’ position, Haslett will wait and see how
today pans out before even thinking about whether they are a
chance at the title. “We are one point off the lead, and, in
theory, if we win all our games, we can certainly tie up first
place, but that remains to be seen - we have got Met East
first-up (today) and that will be a big one, then we have got
Darling Downs,’’ he said. “(Yesterday) was certainly a big
improvement on (Monday) when we got bounced 4-1 by South Coast –
it was 1-all at half-time and on paper, you would have to say
they are a stronger side than us, but judging by the results
today, they run a bit hot and cold as well, and towards the end,
we lost momentum and composure.
“We also lost to Northern in our first game (on Sunday), which
on our part was unexpected, but to come back this morning and
having not lost a game today, we were inspired for the Sunshine
Coast game and it carried through.’’
Northern are now in fourth place on 22 points after winning both
of their games, with a Brendan Garner double securing a 2-0 win
over Peninsula and Garner scoring two more goals, along with
Ryan Lee to sentence Wide Bay to another loss, this time 4-0.
South Coast dropped off the pace yesterday with two draws – 1-1
against Darling Downs and a scoreless result against
Capricornia, and they currently share fifth place with three
other regions – Capricornia, Darling Downs and Sunshine Coast.
Capricornia coach Steve McDowall is also “extremely pleased’’
with their performances after also disposing of Wide Bay 3-1
yesterday. “Our centre-back Alex (Beilanowski) and defender Ryan
Patton are doing well, along with Hamish Maguire in the
midfield, our two strikers Mitchell Hunter and captain Ben Romyn,
and defender Hayden Dow,’’ McDowall said. “The players have been
able to lift their game against the Metropolitan teams and have
been competitive all over the park – with the boys living 500km
apart, we had only had one training run before the carnival but
they have gelled together in just a short period of time which
is a credit to their determination to do well.’’
Peninsula achieved the biggest win of the day, white-washing
South West 9-0 with Bradley Lee and MacLean Simpson cutting
loose with five and four goals respectively.
Metropolitan
West are the new leaders in the Queensland School Sport 12
years and under State Football Boys Championships at Martens
Oval after they and South Coast emerged from day two yesterday
as the only undefeated sides. Continuing on from their two wins
on Sunday, Met West started yesterday with a 3-0 victory over
Wide Bay, before being held to a scoreless draw by South Coast,
but then proving too good for North West 4-0.
On the other hand, South Coast slipped behind on the table after
winning just one of their three matches, drawing with Sunshine
Coast 1-1, before again sharing the points with their Met West,
but then returning to the winners’ list in emphatic fashion at
the expense of Met North 4-1.
Met West head the ladder on 18 points, one clear of Met East,
with South Coast third on 16, but just four points separate the
top eight sides in one of the most open competitions in the
tournament’s history, with Sunshine Coast on 15, and four teams
on 14 – Capricornia, Darling Downs, Met North and Northern.
Met West coach Mark Mitchell was “happy with (his) boys’
performance overall’’. “We still remain undefeated - we won well
against Wide Bay, also played well in our second game but
couldn’t stick one away, and had a dusty start to our last game
but put four away by the end of 40 minutes,’’ Mitchell said. “We
played good football throughout the three matches and have shown
good team spirit.’’ Met West are still yet to concede a goal in
five matches, but while their goal-keeper Alex Mougenot has done
everything asked of him, Mitchell said that statistic could be
attributed most to their defence.
“We have defended as a unit, supported by the keeper, and our
back four have been very strong – captain and sweeper Pierce
Wylie, Daniel Simic, Zayd Dennis and Jamie Kelly – which is a
good effort because three of them are midfielders who really
don’t play that position,’’ he said. “The defence has held it
nice and tight and they have played the ball forward, and the
rest of the team chips in.’’
Met East defeated Northern 1-0 and Sunshine Coast 3-1 yesterday
to make it four wins in a row after having started the carnival
with a 1-0 loss to South Coast on Sunday, and their coach Colin
Simmons said they also played “quite well’’. A first-half strike
by Mitchell Austin was enough to clinch them the points against
Northern, while Austin took his goal haul to five in three
matches with a double to again be a match winner against
Sunshine Coast. “The boys were a bit disappointed to lose
first-up but they have really picked themself up and have come
to the party and started to play some good football – the main
thing is we don’t have any real star players but we play as a
team,’’ Mitchell said. “But striker Mitchell Austin has really
come into his own and has now really found his feet – he
probably scored the goal of the tournament against Northern with
an overhead kick, and he played well again against Sunshine
Coast to get another double. “Probably Luke Pavlou, our left
centre midfield, was our stand-out against Sunshine Coast – he
basically had a man-marking job to do on their star player, No.
7 (Reece Dalton) who is a brilliant player - he tried to contain
him and did not let him use his talent, and he did exceptionally
well. “Also our right back Patrick Theodore tied up everything
that came on his side – he is a very hard tackling boy and he
really contained everyone that tried to get through – and our
captain and central defender Zack Coulsen has also done very
well.’’
In their first match of the day, captain Todd Norris snatched a
1-1 draw for South Coast from the jaws of defeat with a late
strike after Sunshine Coast’s Reece Dalton had broken the
dead-lock with a cracking goal midway through the second stanza.
Norris was again among the scorers against Met North but Morgan
Saunders was the star of that show with a double.
Sunshine Coast put their morning draw behind them with a 9-0
white-wash of North West with Thomas Hunter wreaking havoc with
four goals and Callum Phillips picking up a double, but their
hopes were set back with their loss to Met East.
Darling Downs, who started their series with two losses on
Sunday, hit back in the best possible way yesterday with a
hat-trick of wins, outgunning South West 4-0 with Ryan Knight
featuring with a double, a 4-1 victory over Peninsula, and a 1-0
defeat of Wide Bay, but they have still got the job in front of
them.
It was a mixed day for Capricornia, with Mitchell Hunter bagging
a double in a 6-0 victory over South West and also finding the
back of the net against Peninsula, but that goal was not enough
as the Far North side got home 3-2 on the back of a Cameron
Nucifora double.
Met North also started the day well, accounting for Peninsula
2-1 and Wide Bay 2-0, but they then met their match against
South Coast, while Northern also had a mixed bag, losing to Met
East but disposing of South West 2-0.
Three boys’ teams are undefeated following the opening day
of the Queensland School Sport 12 years and under State Football
Championships at Martens Oval yesterday after Metropolitan West,
South Coast and Sunshine Coast each won both of their two
matches.
But three other teams head the table with two wins and one loss
each – Capricornia, Metropolitan East and Northern.
South Coast threw down the gauntlet early, edging out Met East
1-0 in the first match of the tournament, with a first-half goal
to Morgan Saunders. But they cut loose against North West to
romp home 8-0 with Reuben Douglas running hot with four goals
and Mark Willett picking up a double. Coach Damien Butler was
naturally pleased wit their promising start. “Two wins is always
a good performance on the first day, and the boys are gelling
pretty well – they are playing some nice football and are
working hard,’’ Butler said.
“Met East was a big game – the Metropolitan areas are always
strong, and the game settled the nerves and it set the standard
for the carnival with the intensity like that.’’
Butler nominated team-work as the key to their results.
“(Captain) Todd Norris leads by example but they all stood up
and are all gelling together well, but our keeper Michael
Haydock was outstanding against Met East this morning – he
nullified some great attacking raids, but he did not have much
to do in the afternoon game (against North West),’’ he said.
Butler is hoping to claim the title outright this year after
sharing it with Met East and Met West respectively in the past
two years. “You always come away hoping to be competitive but it
is hard to say hard how you will go until your last game because
the competition is so hard – we have got three hard games
(today) – Sunshine Coast, Met West and Met North – and we will
see how we are looking after that,’’ he said.
Met West started with a clinical 6-0 victory at the expense of
South West with Sanjeyan Sivaananthan and Aleksa Krkeljas
leading the charge with twin-doubles, and they also prevailed
against Peninsula 2-0 after a good battle, but the draw gets
tougher for them from now on.
Sunshine Coast’s wins were both hard fought with Jack Marriott a
match winner in a 1-0 dispatch of Peninsula, and Marriott also
finding the back of the net against Wide Bay, but Brandon Lee
was the hero in that game, with his double clinching a 3-2
victory. Wide Bay had kicked off their campaign by outgunning
North West 4-0 with Matthew Keen snaring a hat-trick and Joel
Haack, who has just returned from a tour of Japan with the
Queensland Primary Schools team, also getting his name on the
score-card.
Capricornia also competed strongly all day long, starting with a
1-0 win over Darling Downs, then going down fighting to Met East
3-2, but bouncing back to end the day with a return to the
winners’ list by overcoming Northern 2-0.
Met East got better with each match, putting their
disappointment against South Coast behind them, to wear down
Capricornia, then really hit their straps against North West,
running out 7-0 victors with Lewis Simon making it three goals
for the day with a double, and Mitchell Austin also striking
twice.
A Ryan Lee strike got the ball rolling for Northern as they
disposed of Met North 1-0, and he was again among the scorers as
they claimed the points against Darling Downs 2-1, but they met
their match against Capricornia. Meanwhile, Met North rebounded
from their first-up loss to account for South West 5-0 with five
individual scorers in their only other match of the day, and
with five points from only two matches, they are in a bunched
field in an open competition with just four points separating
the top eight teams on the points’ ladder.
| Brendan Garner | 9 | NORTH |
| Matthew Keen | 9 | WB |
| Morgan Saunders | 9 | STH CST |
| Mitchell Austin | 8 | ME |
| MacLean Simpson | 7 | PEN |
| Bradley Ley | 6 | PEN |
| Ryan Lee | 6 | NORTH |
| Todd Norris | 6 | STH CST |
| Aleksa Krkeljas | 5 | MW |
| Conor O’Neill | 5 | MN |
| Mitchell Hunter | 5 | CAP |
| Nicholas Cecil | 5 | ME |
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | PTS |
| STH CST | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 4 | 36 |
| ME | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 6 | 34 |
| MN | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 10 | 34 |
| NORTH | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 5 | 33 |
| SUN CST | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 30 |
| MW | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 8 | 29 |
| CAP | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 28 |
| DD | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 26 |
| PEN | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 16 | 24 |
| WB | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 14 | 24 | 20 |
| SW | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 50 | 12 |
| NW | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 52 | 12 |
South Coast 1 d Met East 0
Morgan Saunders
Capricornia 1 d Darling Downs 0
Cooper Grant
Wide Bay 4 d North West 0
Matthew Keen 3, Joel Haack
Northern 1 d Met North 0
Ryan Lee
Met West 6 d South West 0
Sanjeyan Sivaananthan 2, Aleksa Krkeljas 2, Tristan Hugo,
Ryan Velasqeuz
Sunshine Coast 1 d Peninsula 0
Jack Marriott
South Coast 8 d North West 0
Reuben Douglas 4, Mark Willett 2, Jayden Hellyar, Own Goal
Met East 3 d Capricornia 2
ME - Lewis Simon, Ajdin Fetahajic, Nicholas Cecil.
CAP - Alex Beilanowski, Mitchell Hunter
Sunshine Coast 3 d Wide Bay 2
SC - Brandon Lee 2, Jack Marriott
WB - Matthew Keen, Joseph Hoy
Northern 2 d Darling Downs 1
N - Michael Veal. Ryan Lee
DD - Own Goal
Met North 5 d South West 0
Conor O’Neil, Hayden McHenery, Tynan Rousetty, Ricky Budd, Tory
Paton
Met West 2 d Peninsula 0
Jordan Lambi, Tristan Hugo
Met East 7 d North West 0
Mitchell Austin 2, Lewis Simon 2, Danielle Romano, Nicholas
Cecil, Own Goal
Capricornia 2 d Northern 0
Jesse Wiemers, Cooper Grant
Day 2.
Sunshine Coast 1 drew South Coast 1
SUN Reece Dalton
SC Todd Norris
Darling Downs 4 d South West 0
Ryan Knight 2, Cameron Crestani, Yonas Hathway
Met North 2 d Peninsula 1
MN Conor O’Neill, Ryan Roderick
P Logan Grillo
Met West 3 d Wide Bay 0
Tristan Hugo, Tom Webster, Ryan Velasquez
Met East 1 d Northern
Mitchell Austin
Sunshine Coast 9 d North West 0
Thomas Hunter 4, Callum Phillips 2, Jesse English, Reece Dalton,
Mitch Hore
Met West 0 drew South Coast 0
Capricornia 6 d South West 0
Mitchell Hunter 2, Alex Beilanowski, Ryan Patton, Zack Tass
Met North 2 d Wide Bay 0
Conor O’Neill, Ricky Budd
Darling Downs 4 d Peninsula 1
DD Joshua McCarthy, Jake Elton,Michael Van Gend, Jackson Franke
P Cameron Nucifora
Northern 2 d South West 0
Brendan Garner, Shaun Green
Met East 3 d Sunshine Coast 1
ME Mitchell Austin 2, Lewis Simon
SC Reece Dalton
Peninsula 3 d Capricornia 2
P Cameron Nucifora 2, MacLean Simpson
C Mitchell Hunter, Ben Romyn
Met West 4 d North West 0
Aleksa Krkeljas 2, Tristan Hugo, Jordan Lambi
South Coast 4 d Metro North 1
SC Morgan Saunders 2, Justin Coulson, Todd Norris
MN Michael Morrow
Darling Downs 1 d Wide Bay 0
Michael Van Gend
Sun Coast 2 d Met West 0
Callum Phillips, Reece Dalton
Met East 6 d South West 0
Nicholas Cecil 2, Nicholas Buckley 2, Aaron Tucker, Daniello
Romano
Northern 2 d Peninsula 0
Brendan Garner 2
Met North 5 d North West 0
Tynan Roussety 2, Scott Halliday, Davlyn Cleary, Stephen O’Neill
Darling Downs 1 d South Coast 1
DD Yonas Hathway
SC Morgan Saunders
Capricornia 3 d Wide Bay 1
Cooper Grant, Alex Paxton, Mitchell Hunter
WB Connor Reeves
Peninsula 9 d South West 0
Bradley Ley 5, MacLean Simpson 4
Met East 3 d Met West 0
Mitchell Austin 2, Nicholas Cecil
Northern 4 d Wide Bay 0
Ryan Lee 2, Brendan Garner 2
Met North 2 d Sunshine Coast 1
MN Conor O’Neill, Davlyn Cleary
SC Jake Wallett
Darling Downs 4 d North West 0
Jackson Franke, Michael van Gend, Jake Elton, Hayden Dow
South Coast 0 drew Capricornia 0
Met North 1 d Met West 1
MN Michael Morrow
MW Tom Webster
Met East 0 d Peninsula 0
Sunshine Coast 0 drew Darling Downs 0
Wide Bay 4 d South West 0
Matthew Keen 2, Daniel Behn, Joel Haack
Capricornia 2 d North West 0
Ben Romyn 2
South Coast 1 d Northern 0
Todd Norris
Met East 1 drew Met North 1
ME Mitchell Austin
MN Conor O’Neill
Peninsula 4 d Wide Bay 1
Gieseppe Cavaliera 2, MacLean Simpson 2
WB Matthew Keen
Darling Downs 1 drew Met West 1
DD Julian Posada
MW Pierce Wylie
South Coast 6 d South West 0
Morgan Saunders 3,Todd Norris, Ryan Baldwin, Tasar Malone
Capricornia 0 drew Sunshine Coast 0
Northern 6 d North West 0
Brendan Garner 4, Ryan Lee, Own Goal
Wide Bay 1 d Met East 0
Matthew Keen
Met North 3 d Darling Downs 0
Michael Morrow, Ryan Roderick, Scott Halliday
Met West 2 d Capricornia 0
Aleksa Krkeljas, Marcus Fane
South Coast 2 d Peninsula 0
Todd Norris, Morgan Saunders
North West 1 drew South West 1
NW Liam Sweeney
SW Sam Schaefer
Northern 0 drew Sunshine Coast 0
South Coast 4 d Wide Bay 1
SC Morgan Saunders, Todd Norris, Mark Willett, Tasar Malone
WB Matthew Keen
Met East 1 d Darling Downs 0
Zach Graveson
Met North 2 d Capricornia 1
MN Tory Paton, Scott Halliday
C Alex Beilanowski
Peninsula 2 d North West 0
Bradly Ley, Ned Jackson
Sunshine Coast 1 d South West 0
Callum Phillips
Northern 1 d Met West 0
Ryan Lee
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