Warriors in Men’s hummel F-League command
An eighth straight Dural Warriors win to start the 2014 hummel F-League Men’s Competition yelled ‘catch us if you can’ following a full weekend of action.
East Coast Heat got a bold trifecta by beating Sydney Scorpions 7-2, South Brisbane 8-2 and St Albans Strikers 9-5, Boomerangs FS edged neighbours Capital FC 6-3, while St Albans Strikers suffered successive losses to Sydney Scorpions 5-7, East Coast Heat 5-9 and Dural Warriors 4-7, and South Brisbane also fell to Dural Warriors 12-2.
The points table has Dural Warriors (24) ahead of East Coast Heat (21), Sydney Scorpions (19), Vic Vipers (16), St Albans Strikers (16) and Boomerangs FS (15)
Sydney Scorpions 2 (Daniel Fogarty 2) East Coast Heat 7 (Chris Zeballos 3, Jordan Barzel, Jordon Guerreiro, Sam Perre, Raymond Miller)
Boomerangs 6 (Jason O’Dwyer 2, Jonathan Ciminelli, Michael Reeve, Callum Smith, Thomas Zeitlhofer) Capital FC 3 (Brett Forward, Sean O’Neill, Michael Rinaudo)
East Coast Heat 8 (Sam Perre 3, Michael Loupis 2, Mitomo Somehara, Chris Zeballos, Jordan Guerreiro) South Brisbane 2 (Andre Gimenez Barbosa, Scott Fenn)
Sydney Scorpions 7 (Mark Symington 3, Andres Gomez Castro 2, Danny Martinez, Shane Ardle) St Albans Strikers 5 (Jose Portillo 2, Brenno De Almeida 2, Nejdet Sahin)
Sydney Scorpions 10 (Mark Symington 5, Danny Martinez 3, Daniel Fogarty 2) South Brisbane 3 (Caleb Urlich, Thomas Sutton, Rhys Pope)
East Coast Heat 9 (Jordan Guerreiro 4, Jonathan Barzel 2, Chris Zeballos 2, Michael Loupis) St Albans Strikers 5 (Jose Portillo 3, Aguek Malek, Nejdet Sahin)
Dural Warriors 12 (Jacob Basden 3, Daine Merrin 2, Glen Kelshaw 2, Jarrod Basger, Wade Giovenali, Bruno Pivato, Greg Giovenali, South Brisbane Own Goal) South Brisbane 2 (Andre Gimenez Barbosa, Scott Fenn)
Dural Warriors 7 (Bruno Pivato 3, Daine Merrin 2, Greg Giovenali, Nathan Niski) St Albans Strikers 4 (Juso Julardzija 2, Resit Culculoglu, Nejdet Sahin)
Heat cook Scorpions
East Coast Heat turned it on with a six-goal second-half blitz against Sydney Scorpions to win 7-2 at Valentine Sports Park on Wednesday night.
A tense 1-1 first half was shattered in the second, Chris Zeballos completing a hat-trick and Jonathan Barzel, Jordan Guerreiro, Sam Perre and Raymond Miller all grabbing goals to secure East Coast Heat’s third straight victory – something they haven’t achieved since their 2012 debut.
Sydney Scorpions 2 (Daniel Fogarty 2 (4th, 22nd))
East Coast Heat 7 (Chris Zeballos 3 (23rd, 26th, 40th), Jordan Barzel (23rd), Jordan Guerreiro (13th), Sam Perre (40th), Raymond Miller (39th))
Boomerangs beat Capital
Boomerangs FS won the first all-ACT hummel F-League men’s derby 6-3 against a gallant Capital FC side at the Mpowerdome, Canberra, on Friday night.
Boomerangs FS opened the scoring through Michael Reeve in the 9th minute, followed by Jonathan Ciminelli (16th) and Callumj Smith (18th) to give Boomerangs FS a 3-0 lead at half time.
Capital FC got on the board in the 21st minute through Michael Rinaudo and Sean O’Neill put them back in touch in the 28th. Thomas Zeitlhofer (29th) and Jason O’Dwyer (30th) scored for Boomerangs FS to extend their lead to 5-2, before Capital FC pegged one back in the 34th minute through Brett Forward. However it was Boomerangs FS who had last say with Jason O’Dwyer getting his second in the 35th minute to give Boomerangs FS a 6-3 win over Capital FC.
Both sides were on five-game winless sequences heading into the affair and the result keeps Boomerangs FS in touch with a tightly-bunched top four.
Boomerangs 6 (Jason O’Dwyer 2, Jonathan Ciminelli, Michael Reeve, Callum Smith, Thomas Zeitlhofer) Capital FC 3 (Brett Forward, Sean O’Neill, Michael Rinaudo)
Coast swamp Brisbane
East Coast Heat were excellent in a 7-2 defeat of South Brisbane at Valentine Sports Park on Saturday morning.
Sam Perre (1st) and Michael Loupis (8th) strikes got East Coast Heat off to a solid start before Scott Fenn (13th) pulled one back for South Brisbane, a second Perre goal (15th) handing the home side a 3-1 halftime advantage.
Jordan Guerreiro (21st) and Chris Zeballos (22nd) extended East Coast Heat’s lead to 5-1 in the second term, Andre Gimenez Barbosa (22nd) scoring to reward South Brisbane’s toil but further goals to Perre (35th), Mitomo Somehara (36th) and Loupis (40th) underlined the Coasters’ superiority and a club-first fourth straight win.
East Coast Heat 8 (Sam Perre 3, Michael Loupis 2, Mitomo Somehara, Chris Zeballos, Jordan Guerreiro)
South Brisbane 2 (Andre Gimenez Barbosa, Scott Fenn)
Scorpions sting Strikers
St Albans Strikers pushed Sydney Scorpions all the way before the home side prevailed with a 7-5 win in the Saturday matinee at Valentine Sports Park.
The two sides traded blows in the first half, Scorpions clinging to a 3-2 halftime edge, and the game was just as tight in the second, passion boiling over with the dismissal of Sydney’s Dominic Cox… but Sydney Scorpions held on for a close victory spearheaded by a Mark Symington hat-trick and Andres Gomez Castro double, Jose Portillo and Brenno De Almeida bagging a brace each for St Albans Strikers.
It was Scorpions fourth straight success against St Albans Strikers and highlighted by a great individual dual between Jose Portillo, who leads the league in goals with 16 season strikes for St Albans Strikers, and Sydney Scorpions veteran Mark Symington who now has 14 after netting eight this weekend. Fernando De Moraes has 13 for Vic Vipers.
Sydney Scorpions 7 (Mark Symington 3 (10th, 12th, 30th), Andres Gomez Castro 2 (23rd, 25th), Danny Martinez (18th), Shane Ardle (36th))
St Albans Strikers 5 (Jose Portillo 2 (33rd, 35th), Brenno De Almeida 2 (12th, 17th), Nejdet Sahin (32nd))
Sydney defeat Brisbane
A solid second-half saw Sydney Scorpions scorch South Brisbane 10-3 at Valentine Sports Park on Saturday evening.
Sydney Scorpions led 4-2 at the break following a dogged first half against the competition’s bottom-placed side and only a well-executed second period allowed them to post a flattering 10-3 final scoreline – Mark Symington snaring an irrepressible five goals for the victors, Danny Martinez three and Daniel Fogarty two.
The result kept Sydney Scorpions hot on Dural’s tail ahead of their highly anticipated derby in a fortnight, but it was a ninth successive South Brisbane loss on their hummel F-League debut.
Evergreen Symington’s five-goal booty lifted him into an elite 10-player club who’ve scored five or more goals in a hummel F-League match and his third-hat-trick this season puts him within reach of Jarrod Basger’s record five for Dural in 2012. He’s now scored eight goals in two wins against South Brisbane.
Sydney Scorpions 10 (Mark Symington 5 (1st, 25th, 26th, 32nd, 38th), Danny Martinez 3 (14th, 29th, 32nd), Daniel Fogarty 2 (5th, 11th))
South Brisbane 3 (Caleb Urlich (2nd), Thomas Sutton (19th), Rhys Pope (39th))
Heat melt Strikers
East Coast Heat snuck ahead of St Albans Strikers 9-5 in an entertaining fixture at Valentine Sports Park on Saturday night.
An early strike from Jonathan Barzel in the 3rd minute gave East Coast Heat an early lead, however St Albans Strikers hit back in the 4th minute through Nejdet Sahin. Jordan Guerreiro retaliated in the 6th minute, before Jose Portillo bagged two goals (15th, 17th) before Guerreiro scored his second in the 18th minute to ensure the sides were level 3-3 at oranges.
Barzel got his second in the 23rd minute, before Guerreiro added another in the 24th minute. St Albans Strikers hit back in the 25th when Portillo completed his hat trick. Aguek Malek added another for St Albans (27th), before Michael Loupis (30th), Zeballos (35th, 40th) and Guerreiro (35th) closed out the win.
St Albans Strikers were good value throughout the game but East Coast Heat’s Jordan Guerreiro was even better and his four-goal haul helped East Coast Heat to secure a deserved 9-5 victory, their fifth win in a row, and a top-two place on the ladder.
East Coast Heat 9 (Jordan Guerreiro 4, Jonathan Barzel 2, Chris Zeballos 2, Michael Loupis)
St Albans Strikers 5 (Jose Portillo 3, Aguek Malek, Nejdet Sahin)
Dural defeat Brisbane
Dural Warriors scored six goals in each half to blow South Brisbane away 12-2 at Dural Sport & Leisure Centre on Sunday morning.
The comfortable ten-goal victory was Dural’s seventh venture into double-figures, four more times than any other hummel F-League club, as Jacob Basden scored three times (5th, 23rd, 40th), Daine Merrin (24th, 38th) and Glen Kelshaw (1st, 19th) twice, with Jarrod Basger (2nd), Greg Giovenali (11th), Bruno Pivato (27th) and Wade Giovenali (33rd) also putting their names on the scoresheet.
It’s a sore tale for South Brisbane, a hummel F-League low 10th straight loss surpassing both Jaguars (2013) and Boomerangs (2011), and they’re closing in on the 12-match winless run from Boomerangs and 11 from Jaguars in those same years.
Dural Warriors 12 (Jacob Basden 3, Daine Merrin 2, Glen Kelshaw 2, Jarrod Basger, Wade Giovenali, Bruno Pivato, Greg Giovenali, South Brisbane Own Goal)
South Brisbane 2 (Andre Gimenez Barbosa, Scott Fenn)
Warriors edge Strikers
It was a healthy stoush between Dural Warriors and St Albans Strikers at Dural Sport & Leisure Centre on Sunday afternoon, the home side finally getting on top 7-4.
It was tight at the break and only some pivotal moments separated the sides. Bruno Pivato claimed a nice hat-trick, Daine Merrin netting twice, Greg Giovenali and Nathan Niski bagging the Dural extras, to counter scores from Juso Julardzija (twice), Resit Culculoglu and Nejdet Sahin.
The Warriors have now won a hummel F-League best eight straight games (overtaking the seven in a row from 2012) and they’re closing in on a 10-match unbeaten run from the same season.
It’s also eight-from-eight contests against their longtime Victorian counterparts (the clubs have played the most number of matches of any hummel F-League entrant, almost 60 each, ACT-rival Boomerangs a game behind).
Dural Warriors 7 (Bruno Pivato 3 (17, 29, 37), Daine Merrin 2 (28, 32), Greg Giovenali (35), Nathan Niski (38))
St Albans Strikers 4 (Juso Julardzija 2 (12, 27), Resit Culculoglu (29), Nejdet Sahin (30))
Next games
The 2014 hummel F-League Men’s Competition will take a brief break next weekend, with a come back to the AIS Training Halls on Saturday (July 19) with Boomerangs FS versus Dural Warriors (11.15am) followed by Capital FC against East Coast Heat (1pm) before the afternoon reverse fixtures Capital FC versus Dural Warriors (4.30pm) and Boomerangs FS against East Coast (6.15pm). South Brisbane host Vic Vipers at Eagles Sports Complex on Sunday (11.15am).
