Saturday results - 4 May 2024

Photo:  Matthew Brkic beats the goalkeeper and scores Knights' second goal against Clarence Zebras today. [PlessPix]

NPL Tasmania

South Hobart 5 (Harry Oates 48, Nick Morton 50, 64, 79, Josh Schofield 59) beat Riverside Olympic 1 (James Trevis 45+3)

Clarence Zebras 1 (Kyle Vincent 83) lost to Glenorchy Knights 2 (Stefan Cordwell 33, Matthew Brkic 38)

Launceston United 0 lost to Launceston City 6 (Diesel Murfet 4, 57, Thierry Swaby 13, 66, Will Humphrey 17, Mane Yawngtun)

Kingborough Lions United 0-0 Devonport City

Photo:  Clarence Zebras' Jack Maundrill (right) tangles with Glenorchy Knights' Nick Mearns. [PlessPix]

NPL Tasmania Standings (As at 4 May 2024)

TEAM	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Glenorchy Knights	6	4	2	0	26	5	14
South Hobart	6	4	2	0	16	6	14
Devonport City	6	3	3	0	15	6	12
Kingborough Lions	6	3	2	1	19	9	11
Launceston City	6	3	1	2	12	7	10
Clarence Zebras	6	1	0	5	11	17	3
Riverside Olympic	6	1	0	5	8	30	3
Launceston United	6	0	0	6	7	34	0

Photo:  South Hobart's Nick Morton crossing the ball against Riverside Olympic. Morton hit a hat-trick.  [PlessPix]

Photo:  Devonport City's Masi Benjamin (left) tries to get past Kingborough Lions United's Eli Luttmer as Lions' Jacob Huigsloot provides back-up. [PlessPix]

NPL Tasmania Under-21s

South Hobart 3 (Rex Maddock 33, 68, Alfie Alderton 40) beat Riverside Olympic 2 (Will Milner 13, Eric Piri 65)

Clarence Zebras 1 (Haidar Alnasser 3) lost to Glenorchy Knights 4 (Nick Naden 14, 59, Kalvin Pitt 54, Charlie Brkic 90+2)

Kingborough Lions United 1 (Tristen Galt 88) lost to Devonport City 5 (Baxter Van Tu 11, 26, Cody Sturzaker 19, Miles Barnard 28, Jordan Payne 37)

Photo:  Action from today's Under-21 game between South Hobart and Riverside Olympic. [PlessPix]

Photo:  More action from the Under-21 game at South Hobart Oval. [PlessPix]

Men’s Southern Championship

New Town White Eagles 5 (Sam Leszczynski 27, 89, Adam McKeown 52, George Ivanov 55, Matthew Pace 87) beat Hobart City 1 (Danilo De Franca 70)

Women’s Super League

Kingborough Lions United 1 (Danielle Kannegiesser 59) lost to Devonport City 2 (Lucy Foote 46, Whitney Knight 82)

Women’s Southern Championship

Olympia Warriors 4 (Allie Berry 3, Isabelle Cranfield 11, 18, Shelley Cook 66) lost to New Town White Eagles 5 (Elke Peterson 38, Katherine Ollerhead 44, 59, 61, Zoe Nichols 74)

Photo:  Glenorchy Knights defender Eddie Huisgloot (left) watches as a team-mate chases and Olympic pass in today's Under-17 game at KGV Park. [PlessPix]

Southern Youth Premier League 17s

Glenorchy Knights 4 (Ripley Yost, Will Butler 2, Khan Huseyin) beat Olympia Warriors 1 Henry Reason)

Photo:  Glenorchy Knights Eddie Huigsloot (left) recovers his ground as Olympia attack. [PlessPix]

Photo:  South Hobart's Josh Schofield is the first to a corner. [PlessPix]

Photo:  Knights' Stefan Cordwell christens his new Adidas boots by cracking home the opening goal despite the attentions of Clarence Zebras' Jeremy Price. [PlessPix]

 Photo:  Stefan Cordwell (left) after scoring the opener and being congratulated by team-mates Thomas Walpole and Joshua Redfearn. [PlessPix]

Lakoseljac Cup and Statewide Cup semi-final draws

Photo:  Glenorchy Knights' Stefan Cordwell scores against South East United.  He will be a vital weapon against Devonport. [PlessPix] 

Statewide Cup draws (17-19 May 2024)

Lakoseljac Cup

Devonport City v Glenorchy Knights

Riverside Olympic v Kingborough Lions United

Photo:  Devonport City's centre-forward Declan Zasadny (right) could pose a threat to Glenorchy Knights. [PlessPix] 

Women’s State-wide Cup

South Hobart v Devonport City

Kingborough Lions United v Launceston United

Under-18 Girls’ Statewide Cup

Glenorchy Knights v Kingborough Lions United

Taroona v South Hobart

Under-17 Boys Statewide Cup

Devonport City v Glenorchy Knights

Launceston City v Riverside Olympic

Two southern and two northern sides qualify for the Lakoseljac Cup semi-finals

Photo:  Knights' Stefan Cordwell takes on South East United's Declan Brown. [PlessPix] 

Two northern and two southern teams are through to the semi-finals of the 2024 Lakoseljac Cup after the weekend’s quarterfinals.

Holders Devonport City, Riverside Olympic, Glenorchy Knights and Kingborough Lions United will await their fate when the semi-final draw is conducted on Wednesday.

Devonport beat second-tier Hobart City 4-0 away at Sandown Park, scoring twice in each half.

Brody Denehey put the visitors ahead in the 8^th minute and Charles Bidwell made it 2-0 at the break with a goal in the 28^th minute.

Declan Zasadny made it 3-0 6 minutes after the resumption, while Riku Ichimura grabbed the fourth 9 minutes from the end.

The scoreline was respectable for Hobart City, who are not exactly setting the world on fire in the Southern Championship.

Photo:  Hobart City's Samuel Jones (left) passes the ball back to his keeper as Devonport's Riki Ichimura moves in. [PlessPix] 

Riverside Olympic threw their league form away in beating Clarence Zebras 5-2 away at Wentworth Park.

Emanuel Farias fired Riverside ahead in the 17^th minute and Henry Cook made it 2-0 on the stroke of half-time.

Goals by Ryan Cook and Samuel Cummins in the 74^th and 81^st minutes, respectively, put the home side level, but disaster struck in the final 8 minutes.

Austin Marshall restored Riverside’s lead in the 82^nd minute and Farias completed his brace 2 minutes later to out the visitors 4-2 ahead.

Gediminas Krusa added the fifth in the 3^rd minute of stoppage time to complete Clarence Zebras’ downfall.

Photo:  Knights' Dimitris Theodorou crosses the ball as South East United's Jacob Sartori is too late to intervene. [PlessPix] 

Southern Championship outfit South East United were brought down to earth by NPL Tasmania leaders Glenorchy Knights, who won 7-0 at home at KGV Park.

Joshua Redfearn opened the scoring for Knights in the 11^th minute and went on to score four goals in total.  After netting the opener, he added to his tally in the 47^th, 80^th and 84^th minutes.

Riley Dillon, Stefan Cordwell and Thomas Walpole were Knights’ other marksmen.

The visitors were lucky not to concede more as the Knights almost demolished the woodwork on occasion with their powerful shooting.

Kingborough Lions United downed Launceston City 2-1 in the remaining quarterfinal at Lightwood Park.

Photo:  Launceston City's William Humphrey sends Lions keeper Masatoshi Kawano the wrong way from the spot. [PlessPix] 

This game was similar in many ways to the league meeting between the sides a few weeks ago.

Just as then, City took the lead through a penalty converted by William Humphrey.  And, just as last time, the spot-kick was awarded in the first half for Eli Luttmer’s foul on Thierry Swaby.

This meeting, two second-half goals by Kobe Kemp sealed the win for the Lions.

Kemp was unlucky not to net a hat-trick when his superb first-time right-footed volley almost shattered the right-hand goalpost.

Photo:  Kingborough brothers Alfred and Matt Hess in action in the game against Launceston City. [PlessPix]