Round 7 Review – Futsal Premier League Open Women’s

Women’s Futsal Premier League round-seven Saturday ended with Campbelltown Quake 2-1 winners over UTS Northside, Boomerangs FS stunned Mascot Vipers 3-2, Eastern Suburbs Hakoah upset Inner West Magic 3-1, and Mountain Majik beat Enfield Allstars 7-0.

A shock loss to leaders Mascot (18 points) saw Campbelltown (15) creep back up to them with Inner West (12) and Easts (11) still under threat from Northside (10), Boomerangs (8) and even Mountain (6) can make a playoff impression.

Campbelltown Quake 2 (Linda Dudek 2) UTS Northside 1 (Hannah McNaulty)

Boomerangs FS 3 (Nicole Jalocha, Bronte Pyke, Madeleine Perceval) Mascot Vipers 2 (Sienna Fraser, Emily Kos)

Inner West Magic 1 (Rhianna Pollicina) Eastern Suburbs Hakoah 3 (Tamires Souza, Jess Frampton, Kiara Farquhar)

Enfield Allstars 0 Mountain Majik 7 (Renee Tomkins, Bethany Gordon 3, Ariella Cabezas, Tara Pender, Laura Montiel)

 

Campbelltown hold off Northside

A Linda Dudek double sealed a tight 2-1 victory for Campbelltown Quake over UTS Northside at Minto Sports Stadium on Saturday afternoon, moving the Sydney south-westerners closer to the top shelf of the women’s competition.

Quake were rampant from the get-go creating a flurry of chances that UTS defused in the opening 10 minutes, and eventually a Dudek break down the right finished with a powerful and precise strike that broke the deadlock.

Northside had their own chances through Yesim Uzunlar, Daisy Arrowsmith and Genevieve Tucker but Bree Clarke stood tall in the Campbelltown goalmouth forging a reputation as one of the league’s most consistent custodians.

Quake’s Toni Sharp turned on the finesse skinning three UTS defenders and forcing a save before prize-debutant Kylie Ledbrook also had a chance inside the D, the Northside keeper up for the challenge sending it wide.

Right before halftime a ball was played in behind to an advancing Dudek who shot from 12m out, wide on the court and on the volley scored one of the finest goals of the season and worth every celebration.

UTS came out with more intent in the second term and high-pressure defense saw Uzunlar, Arrowsmith and Bastow create chances to try and break the Clarke wall, and they finally did with five minutes to go when an Uzunlar shot struck Clarke, spiraled in the air and back into goal, but that’s as close as it got as Campbelltown held on for a tense one-goal victory.

The result, and Mascot’s demise in the capital, allowed Quake to bridge the gap to leaders Vipers to three points.

And with Ledbrook a massive addition to the side – she’s played 60 W-League games for Sydney FC and is currently on the Western Sydney Wanderers roster, scored 13 goals in 16 Australia U20 matches, and has 19 Matildas caps plus an Olympics campaign in her repertoire – no wonder Campbelltown coach Mel Keith is happy.

“UTS are a great team, always unpredictable and never die off. Today we were missing Darcey Malone and Claire Walsh, our two highest goal scorers, but we welcomed Kylie [Ledbrook] to the squad and she definitely contributed positively to the team,” Keith said.“I thought the girls took it to UTS and we are getting better each week. Linda [Dudek], Renee [Tomkins] and Toni [Sharp] were outstanding today and credit to my younger girls who stepped up and matched it with the women’s after having a tough game themselves earlier in the Minto heat.”

Northside coach Danny Beauchamp lamented his side’s inability to make the most of their opportunities, keeping them fifth on the ladder.

“The girls had plenty of territory and possession to win the game but were poor in transition and final pass execution,” he said.

“Quake made it difficult, sitting deep and not allowing space for us in their half, and a few lapses of concentration with and without the ball cost us.”

The result squares the ledger between the sides at five wins apiece – half of them by a solitary one-goal margin.

 

Boomerangs bring down Vipers

Boomerangs FS were simply brilliant as they toppled runaway freight-train Mascot Vipers 3-2 in a Saturday-afternoon derailment at the AIS Training Halls.

The sides traded first-half goals but it was Boomerangs who had all the goods by fulltime, Nicole Jalocha, Bronte Pyke and Madeleine Perceval strikes outdoing responses from Mascot’s Sienna Fraser and Emily Kos.

Remarkably this is the first time Boomerangs have gone three league games unbeaten and keeps them in the playoff picture trailing fourth-placed Easts by three points.

 

Hakoah dazzle Magic

Inner West Magic never saw it coming as Eastern Suburbs Hakoah shocked them 3-1 in an electric clash at Valentine Sports Park on Saturday afternoon.

Rhianna Pollicina scored for Magic in the first term, but it was Easts who had the answers as Tamires Souza, Jess Frampton and Kiara Farquhar goals underpinned a dramatic two-goal victory.

Back-to-back successes – for the first time – placed Hakoah fourth on the points table and snapped a five-game win-less run on the road.

Inner West would be shell-shocked! They’d never lost to Easts before and beat them 5-3 on this very court on Wednesday in a solid Futsal Cup win, Magic now slipping to third spot two points ahead of fifth-placed Northside.

 

Mountain landslide Enfield

Mountain Majik piled on the pain in a Saturday-night 7-0 demolition of Enfield Allstars at Morris Iemma Indoor Sports Centre.

Renee Tomkins got the score rolling in just the second minute of play with Bethany Gordon and Ariella Cabezas adding further goals to rack up a 3-0 halftime scoreline.

Gordon completed her hat-trick with dual-strikes just past the half-hour mark and late Tara Pender and Laura Montiel goals rounded out the seven-goal win.

Mountain’s second victory of a sluggish summer coupled with a topsy-turvy season has conveniently placed Majik only five points off top-four pace.

It’s also the first time in the past eight seasons that any club has had seven different scorers in the same match.

 

Next games

2019/20 Women’s Futsal Premier League round-eight Saturday action features Campbelltown Quake versus Boomerangs FS at Minto Sports Stadium (3.50pm), UTS Northside tackle Enfield Allstars at PCYC Dee WHY (4.50pm), Eastern Suburbs Hakoah play Mountain Majik at All Sorts Indoor Sports Centre (5.30pm), and Mascot Vipers face Inner West Magic at Morris Iemma Indoor Sports Centre (6.50pm).