Warriors take Men’s hummel F-League lead

A double Dural Warriors win sent them to the top of the 2014 hummel F-League Men’s Competition table, a fifth straight win to start the season holding out Boomerangs (12), Vipers (7), Scorpions (7), Strikers (7) and East Coast (6), Capital FC (4) and South Brisbane (0).

Dural beat Capital FC and Boomerangs FS in Sydney to claim top spot, while Scorpions had a draw with Capital FC and a win against Boomerangs FS. Vipers bettered Strikers 4-3 in a Victorian thriller to set up an interesting season ahead.

Sydney Scorpions 6 (Shervin Adeli, Daniel Fogarty, Daniel Martinez, Daniel Vellonio, Lachlan Wright) Capital FC 6 (Richard Moon 2, Michael Rinaudo 2, Brett Forward, Gianmarco Senatore)

Dural Warriors 7 (Blake Rosier 2, Jacob Basden, Zach Caruana, Kaans Kilinc, Wade Giovenali, Tobias Seeto) Capital FC 3 (Brett Forward 2, Michael Rinaudo)

St Albans Strikers 3 (Nejdet Sahin 2, Jose Portillo) Vic Vipers 4 (Maxim Avram, Jonathan Barrientos, Vinicius Leite, Matthew Vragovski)

Sydney Scorpions 3 (Shervin Adeli, Daniel Martinez, Mark Symington) Boomerangs 1 (Michael Reeve)

Dural Warriors 5 (Jarrod Basger, Chris Polkinghorne, Nick Starr, Tobias Seeto, Nathan Niski) Boomerangs 1 (Thomas Zeitlhofer)

Scorpions, Capital draw

Sydney Scorpions and Capital FC fought out a thrilling 6-6 draw at Valentine Sports Park on Saturday morning.

Scorpions took the lead early with goals to Daniel Martinez (2nd) and Daniel Fogarty (4th), before Fogarty was dismissed in the 5th minute. Capital FC hit back to take the lead at half time through Richard Moon (17th), Gianmarco Senatore (19th) and Michael Rinaudo (19th).

Scorpions equalized early in the second half through Shervin Adeli (22nd), but Capital FC quickly hit the lead again with Rinaudo getting a double (23rd). Scorpions again equalized in the 27th minute through Lachlan Wright before Capital FC quickly responded with a goal to Brett Forward (28th). Daniel Vellonio equalized for Scorpions in the 30th minute, before Capital FC scored through Richard Moon (37th) and conceded an own goal (37th) to see the game end in a 6-6 draw.

Sydney Scorpions 6 (Shervin Adeli, Daniel Fogarty, Daniel Martinez, Daniel Vellonio, Lachlan Wright)

Capital FC 6 (Richard Moon 2, Michael Rinaudo 2, Brett Forward, Gianmarco Senatore)  

Warriors take Capital

Dural Warriors chalked up another win with a tricky 7-3 win against Capital FC at Dural Sport & Leisure Centre on Saturday afternoon.

A Blake Rosier double (4th, 5th) gave Dural a 2-0 buffer before Capital’s Michael Rinaudo hit backin the 12th minute. Zach Caruana’s goal in the 19th saw Dural lead 3-1 at half time.

Wade Giovenali (22nd), Kaan Kilinc (23rd) and Toby Seeto (23rd) pushed Dural further in front before Capital responded with a double from Brett Forward (24th, 34th). Jacob Basden scored in the 37th minute to give Dural a cosy 7-3 win.

Dural Warriors 7 (Blake Rosier 2, Jacob Basden, Zach Caruana, Kaans Kilinc, Wade Giovenali, Tobias Seeto)

Capital FC 3 (Brett Forward 2, Michael Rinaudo)

Vipers edge Strikers

Vic Vipers held out a strong St Albans Strikers challenge 4-3 at YMCA Derrimut Health and Aquatic Centre on Saturday night.

Jonathan Barrientos (6th) and Maxim Avram (15th) got Vipers off to a 2-0 halftime break, with Nejdet Sahin pulling one back for St Albans in the 25th minute.

A Vinicius Leite goal (28th) restored the Vics two-goal buffer and Matthew Vragovski made it 4-1 (30th), but Strikers weren’t done with yet and late goals to Sahin (37th) and Jose Portillo (38th) made it a very interesting 4-3 scoreline with two minutes to play – Vipers hanging on for a very important win and fourth spot on the ladder.

St Albans haven’t beaten Vipers in six hummel F-League tries and the Vics have now won eight of 11 contests decided by a goal (73%).

Jose Portillo’s strike also moves him to third on the all-time hummel F-League scorers list with 33 goals, still behind Dural’s Jarrod Basger (57) and former star Daniel Fulton (44). Next best are Warriors ace Greg Giovenali (31), Strikers striker Tomislav Grgic (29), Scorpions stinger Shervin Keshavarzadeli (26) and Vipers weapon Adam Cooper (25).

St Albans Strikers 3 (Nejdet Sahin 2, Jose Portillo)

Vic Vipers 4 (Maxim Avram, Jonathan Barrientos, Vinicius Leite, Matthew Vragovski)

Scorpions pip Boomerangs

Sydney Scorpions held on for a determined 3-1 win over Boomerangs at Valentine Sports Park on Sunday morning.

The two sides went tit-for-tat in a highly entertaining game, that saw scores locked at 1-1 at half time. Scorpions eventually holding on for a 3-1 win.

This win splits Sydney’s efforts against Boomerangs to two wins apiece in four epic hummel F-League encounters.

Sydney Scorpions 3 (Shervin Adeli, Daniel Martinez, Mark Symington)

Boomerangs 1 (Michael Reeve)

Dural beat Boomerangs

A second-half blitz helped Dural Warriors over the line against rivals Boomerangs FS at Dural Sport & Leisure Centre on Sunday afternoon.

The top-two teams retired 1-1 at oranges with Boomerangs’ Thomas Zeitlhofer opening the scoring in the 6th minute and Dural’s Toby Seeto equalizing in the 20th.

However it was one-way traffic in the second term as Dural made it five straight wins to start the season with goals to Nathan Niski (24th), Chris Polkinghorne (31st), Nick Starr (38th) and Jarrod Basger (40th).

Boomerangs haven’t beaten Dural since the 2011 hummel F-League season. But in a remarkable feat, despite the defeat Boomerangs have not been held scoreless in 50 hummel F-League runs. The only other sides to score in every F-League match they’ve played are Vipers (34 games), East Coast (32), Scorpions (21) and Maccabi Hakoah (17).

Dural Warriors 5 (Jarrod Basger, Chris Polkinghorne, Nick Starr, Tobias Seeto, Nathan Niski)

Boomerangs 1 (Thomas Zeitlhofer) 

Next games

The hummel F-League Men’s action heats up with East Coast Heat versus Boomerangs at All Sorts Indoor Sports Centre on Friday night (7.30pm), with Heat backing up at the same venue on Sunday morning with a game against Capital FC (10am).

At YMCA Derrimut Health and Aquatic Centre, St Albans Strikers host South Brisbane on Saturday morning (11am) and Vic Vipers play South Brisbane in the afternoon (2.30pm), while on Sunday Vic Vipers tackle Sydney Scorpions in the morning (10.30am) and St Albans meet Scorpions in the afternoon (2pm).