Boomerangs lead Men’s hummel F-League
Boomerangs have jumped the gun in the 2014 hummel F-League Men’s Competition, with a third successive win keeping their noses in front of Dural Warriors, East Coast Heat, Vic Vipers and St Albans Strikers on the points table.
Records tumbled in an absorbing weekend of matches played out over three states and our national territory, Sydney Scorpions the sufferers of heartbreaking back-to-back 5-4 losses, while Heat fell to Dural 2-8 in Sydney on Saturday then raced north to beat South Brisbane 7-2. Vic Vipers and St Albans Strikers had a 4-4 draw in the Victorian derby, while Capital FC picked up their first-ever F-League win (over Scorpions).
East Coast Heat 2 (Clayton Musumeci, Chris Zeballos) Dural Warriors 8 (Jarrod Basger 7, Tobias Seeto)
Capital FC 5 (Michael Rinaudo 2, Bradley Sawyer, Brett Forward, Joshua Calabria) Sydney Scorpions 4 (Brian Griffin-Colls, Andres Gomez Castro, Ian McAndrew, Lucas Kruel)
South Brisbane 2 (Pascal Budini-Glass 2) East Coast Heat 7 (Harley Da Silva 2, Sam Perre, Chris Zeballos, Jonathan Barzel, Mitomo Somehara, Bruno Bellardo)
Boomerangs 5 (Daniel Bennett 2, Thomas Zeitlhofer 2, Michael Reeve) Sydney Scorpions 4 (Lucas Kruel, Andres Gomez Castro, Matteo Rocca, Daniel Vellonio)
Vic Vipers 4 (Miguel Barrigos, Fernando De Moraes, Jason Barrientos, Jonathan Barrientos) St Albans Strikers 4 (Gavin Schipp 3, Ricardo Castro)
Warriors douse Heat
It was the Jarrod Basger show as Dural Warriors shouldered East Coast Heat 8-2 at All Sorts Indoor Sports Centre on Friday night, the hummel F-League’s all-time greatest scorer setting a new game benchmark with seven scintillating goals.
A tentative opening period had Dural 3-1 in front at the halfway mark and the Warriors turned it on in the second term …
Basger’s seven-goal haul is the most by any hummel F-League player in a single match – outdoing Gavin Schipp’s super-six for Parramatta Blues in a 15-8 whirlwind with St Albans in 2012 – to take the Warrior chief to a staggering 57 goals for his illustrious national club career (14 ahead of next best Daniel Fulton).
East Coast Heat 2 (Clayton Musumeci, Chris Zeballos) Dural Warriors 8 (Jarrod Basger 7, Tobias Seeto)
Capital edge Scorpions
A courageous Capital FC earned their first-ever hummel F-League victory with a 5-4 tightrope over Sydney Scorpions in the midday matinee at Canberra’s Mpowerdome.
It was tense from the outset and Capital FC clung to a tight 2-1 lead at the break, and the Territorians held out for a memorable maiden hummel F-League win.
Capital FC 5 (Michael Rinaudo 2, Bradley Sawyer, Brett Forward, Joshua Calabria) Sydney Scorpions 4 (Brian Griffin-Colls, Andres Gomez Castro, Ian McAndrew, Lucas Kruel)
Heat beat Brisbane
East Coast Heat rebounded from Friday’s loss to Dural with a gallant 7-2 win over South Brisbane at Queensland’s Eagles Sports Complex on Saturday afternoon.
Harley Da Silva and Sam Perre pushed East Coast 2-0 ahead before South Brisbane’s Pascal Budini-Glass halved the deficit inside a blistering opening 10 minutes.
Chris Zeballos added another to Heat’s tally but Budini-Glass retaliated again to keep the scoreline nice and tight at halftime, 3-2 to the visitors.
Goals to Jonathan Barzel, Mitomo Somehara and Bruno Bellardo gave the Coasters some breathing room at 6-2 in front at the half-hour mark, and their task was made simple with the dismissal of Brisbane pair Peter Panaretos (second yellow) and captain Scott Fenn, Da Silva adding a last-minute extra for the visitors.
In an ominous display of potency more than half the Heat squad have bagged goals in just three hummel F-League outings, 10 players penning their name on the scoresheet.
South Brisbane 2 (Pascal Budini-Glass 2) East Coast Heat 7 (Harley Da Silva 2, Sam Perre, Chris Zeballos, Jonathan Barzel, Mitomo Somehara, Bruno Bellardo)
Boomerangs snap Scorpions
Boomerangs pipped Sydney Scorpions at Mpowerdome, Canberra on Saturday afternoon to register a third straight win to start the season and gain an early hummel F-League lead.
The two sides traded blows throughout the game with Boomerangs finally powering home after Scorpion Brian Griffins-Coles was sent off.
The result built a moat around ACT boundaries – no Canberra-based club has lost a hummel F-League match in eight runs on home turf, but it’s a hapless tale for Sydney after agonising 6-4, 5-4, 5-4 defeats to start a cold winter.
Boomerangs 5 (Daniel Bennett 2, Thomas Zeitlhofer 2, Michael Reeve) Sydney Scorpions 4 (Lucas Kruel, Andres Gomez Castro, Matteo Rocca, Daniel Vellonio)
Vipers, Strikers draw
Vic Vipers and St Albans Strikers fought out a thrilling 4-4 draw at YMCA Derrimut Health and Aquatic Centre in a classic Melbourne derby on Saturday night.
It was end-to-end excitement as Vipers clawed their way to a 3-1 halftime ascendancy only for Strikers sharpshooter Gavin Schipp to rack up a second-half hat-trick and even the scores up by fulltime.
Vic Vipers 4 (Miguel Barrigos, Fernando De Moraes, Jason Barrientos, Jonathan Barrientos) St Albans Strikers (Gavin Schipp 3, Ricardo Castro)
Next games
The 2014 hummel F-League Men’s Competition features the return Sydney derby bout as Dural Warriors host East Coast Heat at Dural Sport & Leisure Centre on Wednesday night (7.30pm), the weekend action heading north of the border where South Brisbane meet Boomerangs at Eagles Sports Complex on Saturday (1.45pm), followed by Sunday games against Sydney Scorpions at (11am) and St Albans Strikers (3.30pm) both at the Logan Metro Sports Centre.
-By Dan De Nardi
