Chatham Cup Round One; May 14th
Footballsouth Zone Chatham Cup 14th May
Northern Hearts 5, Pleasant Point 0; (Tim)
Green Island 1, University 2; (Dn)
Mornington 0, Grants Braes 5; (Dn)
Roslyn Wakari 10,  Old Boys 0;  (Dn)
Waihopai 1,  Northern 4; (Inv)
Southend Utd 4, Queens Park 0; (Inv)

Three contrasting games resulted from the round one Footballsouth Southern Zone Chatham Cup fixtures played on Saturday.

At Bain Park in Invercargill the Amcal Waikiwi Pharmacy Southend United unit paid little heed to the fact they have only gained one win from their five Southland Football Premier men’s competition games as they steam-rolled Eyeview Queens Park 4-nil to cause the upset of the day.

A section of the large crowd that "for the most" enjoyed Southend's day in the sun.

I don't plan to press charges against Southend player-coach Iain Walker (extreme left)
who was seen to assault me with a page from his notebook during an angry outburst....Stu

At Surrey Park EWL Southland Waihopai was competitive for only sixty of the ninety minutes played in its game against Footballsouth Premier League contenders Northern from Dunedin before submitting to a sound 4-1 defeat.

While in Dunedin, the Southland senior men’s Donald Gray cup holder and current competition leader AMP Old Boys was simply outclassed as Roslyn Wakari hit double figures with a 10-nil demolition job.

Star of the day was Southend United’s Steve McDonald who capitalised on the good build up work of his team mates to net a hat trick of goals.

McDonald’s brace of goals at the twenty and twenty five minute mark of the first half stung their Queens Park opposition who were unable to regain their composure enough to rectify the damage.

Tom Kent (yellow) played his last game for Park before heading across the ditch.
Probably wishes his last game was last week 

The sending off of Stu Kent early in the second stanza for his second yellow card offence made Queens Park’s task an almost impossible one and when Nic Barclay and then McDonald, his third, increased the Southend score to 4-nil there was no way back for the beleaguered Park team who earlier in the season had inflicted a 4-1 loss on Saturday’s victors.

Southend's centre back Steve Garron gave a whole new meaning to "kicking for touch" as he marshalled
his defensive colleagues to thwart the Park strikers.

For their effort Southend has already laid claim to the Churchill Rosebowl trophy awarded to the Southland team which progresses furthest in the New Zealand wide Chatham Cup competition.

Waihopai scored first against Northern in their encounter when a Matty Burgess corner-kick found its way into the net with just a little help from the Northern keeper Tom Galloway.

To use a Bob Dylan song title you could say that Northern keeper Tom Galloway was
"Tangled Up In Blue"
I surprise myself at times....

The teams went to the half time break at 1-apiece after Northern’s Tupac Cordon had levelled the scores.

Matty won, this shot went high & wide....

Waihopai had the misfortune to lose striker Chris Jones with a serious knee injury midway through the second half.
The game was delayed for sometime to allow ambulance staff to arrive and remove Jones from the field.
...
Although accused of gutter photography (with more than a hint of humour)
I went ahead, in the interest of informing my news hungry public, and took these pics of the
unfortunate Jonesey receiving lots of TLC and then being removed to the ambulance.
It's what us Paparazzi do....

Tom McLean, 2, and Cam Higgins completed the visitors scoring ensuring their progress to the second round.

Roslyn Wakari attacked Old Boys from the outset of their game in Dunedin and after scoring two early goals, which clearly unsettled Old Boys, continued to pile on the pressure going to the half time break with a 7-nil margin.

James Govan with 4 goals led the Roslyn onslaught.

Roslyn manager Tony van Gorp was delighted with their first half performance which he rated “the best of the season by a mile”.

Queenstown Rovers striker Mary Fraser enhanced her leading goal scorer position in the
Women’s Premier League with a four goal haul in their 11-nil win over Malloch McClean Waihopai
in Queenstown yesterday.

Queenstown’s domination of the Women’s competition can be measured by Fraser heading the list
with 28 goals from her team mates Sahara MacDonald, 22, and Leanne Couch 16.

The resort team has a perfect 6 wins from 6 games record.

Goals From Natalie Johnston, 2, Nessa Legg and Leanne Houliston moved East End Liquor Queens Park
into equal second placing alongside Sinderellas Southend United on the points table with their 4-1
win over Club Southland Western.

The Queens Park team is enjoying its most successful season since entering the competition three years ago.

 

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