Photo: Olympia's co-captains Innocent Michael (left) and Maddie Black raise the Summer Cup as coach Alastair Russell applauds [PlessPix]
(Women’s Summer Cup Final, KGV Park, Saturday, 9 March 2019)
(Women’s Summer Cup Final, KGV Park, Saturday, 9 March 2019)
Olympia Warriors 1 (J Mamic 119’)
Kingborough Lions United 0
HT: 0-0 FT:
0-0 AET: 1-0 Ref:
M Piesse
Olympia Warriors: Farrow;
Black, Bomford, Chambers, Davies, Leszczynski, Mamic, Michael, Puli,
Russell, Williams (Subs: Allanby, Cure, Flack, Marino, Quinn)
Kingborough Lions United: Gardner;
M Cane, Clifford, Davis, De Smit, Horgan, James, Lawson, Manuela, Moore,
Tatton (Subs: I Cane, Dadswell, Edwards, Hart, Hennekam, Hickman,
MacKintosh, Ollington)
Photo: Olympia's Maddie Black and Kingborough's Laura Davis contest a cross [PlessPix]
Photo: Olympia's Maddie Black and Kingborough's Laura Davis contest a cross [PlessPix]
Kingborough
Lions United produced a magnificent performance to hold Olympia Warriors
scoreless for almost 120 minutes.
Zoe
Horgan was at the heart of everything that the Lions produced. She was superb in midfield and her running
and physical strength enabled her to help out in defence and in attack as well.
Hanna
Manuela held things together at the back and snuffed out most of the danger
from Olympia’s attacks with her reading of the game and her strength on the
ground and in the air.
The
Lions’ main attacker, Laura Davis, was unable to break through and score. During the week, she had shown how dangerous
she could be by scoring all four goals in the 4-2 win over Hobart Zebras, but
the Olympia rearguard, organised by captain Maddie Black, had her measure in
this game.
Photo: Kingborough's Hanna Manuela foils Olympia's Josephine Mamic [PlessPix]
Photo: Kingborough's Hanna Manuela foils Olympia's Josephine Mamic [PlessPix]
Olympia
used the wings well and Bonnie Davies and Maddison Chambers were fast and
dangerous throughout the match. The fact
they didn’t score is a tribute to Kingborough’s defence.
Olivia
Bomford, Josephine Mamic and Heather Russell were not their usual effective
selves, but bad luck also played a part in their performances.
Kingborough
goalkeeper Olivia Gardner was brilliant.
Late in normal time she produced a lightning reflex save after a
deflected shot threatened to sneak in at the right-hand post.
Gardner
was desperately unlucky when Olympia finally grabbed the winner in the final
minute of extra-time.
She
made two point-blank saves and the ball also bounced back off a post before a
jubilant Mamic netted to give the Warriors the silverware.
It
was an exciting match and the large crowd was certainly entertained.
Photo: Kingborough's Emille Tatton clashes with Olympia's Olivia Bomford [PlessPix]
Photo: Kingborough's Emille Tatton clashes with Olympia's Olivia Bomford [PlessPix]
Olympia Warriors coach,
Alastair Russell, said:
“It’s
going to take me a while to recover after that.
That’s the type of game we’ve been looking forward to for a long, long
time. A real battle. We haven’t had it and I’m unbelievably proud
of the girls. It’s so difficult when you
haven’t been playing in a high intensity situation to come out like that and
play in it and then go to extra time and we had a couple of injuries so we didn’t
have that many changes that we could make.
It bodes really well for the Super League and we’re so happy to be back.
Photo: Action in Olympia's goalmouth [PlessPix]
Photo: Action in Olympia's goalmouth [PlessPix]
Kingborough Lions United
coach, Simon Edwards, said:
“I
think we need to work on our work in the forward third. I thought it was a fairly even contest. I think, if we’d taken our chances a bit
better, we were there. I think the girls
pressed well and put them under the pump.
“A
really good experience for the young girls to actually have a final like that that’s
gone to extra-time. It challenged a few
of them mentally, which was good.”
Photo: Kingborough's Phoebe Clifford controls the ball ahead of Olympia's Bonnie Davies [PlessPix]
Photo: Kingborough's Phoebe Clifford controls the ball ahead of Olympia's Bonnie Davies [PlessPix]
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