Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Round 4 Review

Juniors

The first game of the day was the powerful and unbeaten Yanac Warriors verses the young Nhill Leopards team. As expected the Warriors won the game, but the Leopards did a fantastic job to limit the Warriors to only 3 goals in the first half. Leopards came out after half time to attack ferociously, but their small forwards didn't have much of a chance scoring against the Warriors more experienced defense. Alex Welsh did a wonderful job in the Leopards goals to limit the Warriors to a total of 6 goals for the game. Goal scorers for Warriors were Nathan Alexander (1 goal), Bradley Alexander (2 goals) and Sam Bone (3 goals).

The Dimboola Kangaroos continued their winning form against the Warracknabeal Revengers. The first half of the game included plenty of fast play and turnarounds with both teams attacking quite well. The Kangaroos capitalised up forward scoring with Gianna Haines, Kelly Smithyman and Michael Pohlner scoring a goal each. The Kangaroos defense did a great job leaving the Revengers remained scoreless in the first half. The second half pace slowed considerably, with both teams resorting to big hitting to move the ball into the forward line. The Revengers managed to score late in the half with a goal from Crystal Edwards, making the score 3 – 1 at full time.

Kaniva Raiders started off with a bang against the Dimboola Kookaburras, and kept on going to win with 6 goals over Kookaburras 1 goal. The Raiders dominated the play in the first half with Braden Clark scoring two quick goals early on, although the Kookaburras rallied and fought back to limit the success of the Raiders attacks. In the second half the Kookaburras managed to score 1 goal through Louis Haines but couldn't stop the Raiders from bringing their scoring up to 6 goals. Raiders goal scorers were Duncan Shalders (1 goal), Jordan Clark (2 goals) and Braden Clark (3 goals).

Women

The Warracknabeal Women verses Dimboola Women match was not at all as expected, Dimboola scored a total of 8 unanswered goals. Dimboola dominated the whole game with many more scoring chances than the scoreboard shows. Warracknabeal did try to stop the Dimboola onslaught with great skills from goalie Kate Perkins, full back Karen Triffit and wing Jess Furey, but it was without success. Goals scorers for Dimboola were Elizabeth and Jennifer Klinge (1 goal each), Zoe Harberger (1 goal), Megan Hannell (2 goals) and Michelle Searle (3 goals).

Another one sided game was Yanac Women verses Kaniva Women. Even though the Kaniva defense was playing quite well, the Yanac forwards still managed to score 4 goals in the first half. Despite the final score being 7 – 0 in Yanac's favour, the game was still a good tussle.

Unfortunately there was another forfeit this week by Horsham Highlanders who were drawn against Nhill Thunderbirds.

Men

The Horsham Hurricanes played a close game against the Nhill Rangers despite being one player short, resulting in a 1 all draw. The Hurricanes were missing 5 players, but were bolstered by having 4 Yanac junior players – Bradley Alexander, Sam Bone, Ryan Smith and Alex Pipkorn. The Rangers defense stood up exceptionally against the Hurricanes relentless attempts to score. The Rangers made the most of their infrequent penetrations into their attacking circle and scored the only goal of the first half through Ross Thurlow. Although the Hurricanes had many attempts at scoring, they remained scoreless in the first half. In the second half the Rangers made more pushes into their forward circle without scoring. The Hurricanes managed to score an early goal through Alex Pipkorn, who is actually the goalie for the Yanac juniors.

The Yanac Tigers are still undefeated after defeating the Kaniva Men 6 – 0. Both teams played 2 halves of excellent hockey with clean passing and skillful plays, but Yanac was able to make their surges into their forward circle count. Kaniva wasn't without their chances to score with a few of their own good attacks but had trouble converting. The goalscorers for Yanac were Kim Croot, Josh Cramer, Nathan Alexander (1 goal each) and Jamie Harding with a magnificent performance smashing in 3 goals.

The last men's game of the day saw Warracknabeal Hoops losing in a very close match to Dimboola Men. The first half was full of highly competitive and sometimes rough play, with opportunities to score from both teams. Dimboola managed to break the deadlock in the first half with a field goal through Nathan Jorgensen. Hoops were unable to convert in the first half and came out aggressively in the second half, holding on to the ball very well while making numerous attacking plays. Unfortunately the Hoops attacks didn't yield any goals, and Dimboola held onto their 1 – 0 win.

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