Saturday results - 31 July 2021

Photo:  South Hobart's Kasper Hallam (left) amd Olympia Warriors' Kyle Vincent compete for a header. [PlessPix] 

NPL Tasmania

South Hobart 1 (K Hallam 59) lost to Olympia Warriors (M Bomford 67, A Mamic 70. K Vincent 87)

Launceston City 0 lost to Glenorchy Knights 1 (A Yost 64)

Riverside Olympic 2 R McCarragher 21, M Jones 71) drew with Clarence Zebras 2 (M Reardon 63, D Walsh 90+3)

Photo:  Austin Yost scores for Glenorchy Knights to give them a 1-0 win away to Launceston City. [Photo by Craig Pitt]  

NPL Tasmania (As at 31 July 2021)

TEAM	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Devonport City	15	12	1	2	40	10	37
Glenorchy Knights	15	11	3	1	46	16	36
South Hobart	15	8	4	3	35	19	28
Kingborough Lions	15	6	3	6	27	30	21
Launceston City	15	5	1	9	19	34	16
Clarence Zebras	15	4	3	8	27	37	15
Olympia Warriors	15	4	2	9	23	37	14
Riverside Olympic	15	0	3	12	21	56	3

Photo:  South Hobart's Kasper Hallam slips as he tries to get past Olympia Warriors' Koby Moschogianis. [PlessPix]  

Men’s Southern Championship

Taroona 1-3 New Town White Eagles

University 2-0 Beachside

South East United 2-3 Glenorchy Knights

Clarence Zebras 0-0 Hobart United

Kingborough Lions United 4 (B Hamlett, W King, V Turner 2) beat Metro 2 (H Barrow, S Robb)

South Hobart 10 (T Evans 17, S Tooze 19, H Undy 25, og 36, N Gardner 54, T Walpole 64, 73, 92, K Sztopka 79, 89) beat Olympia Warriors 3 (W Richardson 10, 34, F King Kenyi 46)

Photo:  Olympia goalkeeper Elliot Hoysted can only sit and wonder how he was beaten 10 times today. [PlessPix]  

Women’s Super League

Kingborough Lions United 4 (L Davis 3, H Bonertz-Benn) drew with Devonport Strikers 4 (R Roumbouts, C Dolbel, M Payne, J White)

Photo:  South Hobart defend an Olympia corner in today's Championship clash. [PlessPix]  

Men’s Northern Championship

Riverside Olympic 4-3 Burnie United

Ulverstone 2-3 Devonport Strikers

Launceston United 1-4 Northern Rangers

Launceston City 1-5 Somerset

Photo:  Olympia's William Richardson (left) takes on South Hobart's Marcus Eugster. [PlessPix]  

Women’s Northern Championship

Launceston City 6-0 Somerset

Riverside Olympic 4-1 Burnie United

Launceston United v Northern Rangers (postponed)

Photo:  Kingborough's Ben Hamlett scores by bending the ball around Metro keeper Indigo Sharp. [PlessPix]  

Photo:  Metro's Kye McQueen slide tackles a Kingborough opponent. [PlessPix]

Knights can make up ground on Devonport

Second-placed Glenorchy Knights can close the gap on NPL Tasmania leaders Devonport Strikers to just one point today.

Devonport are idle this weekend having played their Round 16 match earlier in the season, while the Knights are away to fifth-placed Launceston City.

City have been in good form at home and Knights’ task will not be easy.

A win will leave them just a point adrift of Devonport, whom they meet at Valley Road next weekend in what could be the title decider.

Third-placed South Hobart are all but out of the title race but they will be keen to keep their faint title hopes alive by beating second-last Olympia Warriors at South Hobart Oval at 2pm today.

They should win against Warriors, who are at the wrong end of the standings.  It is an unusual sight to see Olympia second-last.

Bottom-side Riverside Olympic host sixth-ranked Clarence Zebras at Windsor Park and the home side are confident of a good showing despite recent poor results.

Clarence Zebras are better than their league position indicates and it would not surprise to see them come away with the 3 points.

NPL Tasmania fixtures for Saturday, 31 July 2021:

South Hobart v Olympia Warriors [South Hobart Oval, 2pm]

Launceston City v Glenorchy Knights {Buckby Motors Park, 2.30pm]

Riverside Olympic v Clarence Zebras [Windsor Park, 4.30pm]

NPL Tasmania (As at 24 July 2021)

TEAM	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Devonport City	15	12	1	2	40	10	37
Glenorchy Knights	14	10	3	1	45	16	33
South Hobart	14	8	4	2	34	16	28
Kingborough Lions	15	6	3	6	27	30	21
Launceston City	14	5	1	8	19	33	16
Clarence Zebras	14	4	2	8	25	35	14
Olympia Warriors	14	3	2	9	20	36	11
Riverside Olympic	14	0	2	12	19	54	2