Stephen Domenici sensationally stole the Capital Futsal League Golden Boot with a scarcely believable sixteen-goal haul as West Canberra Lightning ended the regular season by recording a record Men’s scoreline with a 31-1 annihilation of Queabeyan-Palerang Power at Radford College.
Sharpshooter Domenici went into the final match of the season needing fifteen goals to overhaul leader Romeo Jambrek of the South Canberra Swift and, against a Power side that was unable to field a regular goalkeeper, achieved that and more by setting a CFL record for most goals in a match by an individual.
Remarkably, Domenici netted thirteen of his goals in succession for the Lightning who led 12-0 at half-time and scored with impunity, Nathen Megic and Daniel Fulton helping themselves to half-a-dozen goals apiece in a display to which the Power had no answer on a chastening evening.
Josh Gaspari (2) and Ashley Blount also scored with Ezequiel Inochea netting for the dejected Power who were thankful for the final whistle. Lightning now set their sights on South Canberra Swift in Saturday’s Semi-Final.
RESULTS
Wednesday 11 December
West Canberra Lightning 31 (Megic 1’, 5’, 6’, 8’, 14’, 21’, Domenici 4’, 9’, 17, 22’, 23’, 24’, 26’, 27’, 27’, 28’, 29’, 29’, 30’, 31’, 31’, 32’, Fulton 14’, 18’, 33’, 37’, 38’, 39’, Blount 16’, Gaspari 20’, 38’) QP Power 1 (Inochea 24’)
TABLE
| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PTS | ||
| 1 | UC Stars | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 96 | 40 | +56 | 27 |
| 2 | West Canberra Lightning | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 93 | 51 | +42 | 22 |
| 3 | South Canberra Swift | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 82 | 51 | +31 | 18 |
| 4 | North Canberra Fire | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 61 | 40 | +21 | 13 |
| 5 | ANU Apex | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 39 | 97 | -58 | 6 |
| 6 | QP Power | 19 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 24 | 116 | -92 | 3 |
TOP SCORERS
26: Stephen DOMENICI (Lightning)
24: Romeo JAMBREK (Swift)
21: Luca MACOR (Stars)
19: Anthony GIORGI (Stars)
14: Riley BROWN (Fire)
11: Marco GAYER (Swift)
10: Ben BASSER-SILK (Lightning), Braulio MELO (Apex), Alessandro PENA (Swift), Nicholas SUBASIC (Lightning)
9: Daniel FULTON (Lightning), Jayde JAMES-WARD (Stars), Ibrahim OBEID (Fire), Nik POPOVICH (Lightning)
8: Josh GASPARI (Lightning), Nathen MEGIC (Lightning), Bruno MELO (Apex), Michael SOUTHAM (Lightning),
7: Harry BILLINGTON (Stars), Jackson PAESLER (Swift), Zac PEELGRANE (Apex), Michael RINAUDO (Stars), Patrick SHORE (Swift), Cohen SMITH (Apex), Samuel THOMSON (Fire), Own GOALS
6: Nic DAHL (Stars), Elie DARWICH (Fire), FERNANDO (Swift), Nicholas PRATEZINA (Stars), Ryan STRAUB (Swift)
5: Phakedi MANDA (Stars), Joe MERMINGIS (Power)
4: Nick RATHJEN (Stars), Doug WOODIWISS (Swift)
3: Elliot ALBERTO (Fire), Ashley BLOUNT (Lightning), Sherab GUO-YUTHOK (Apex), Brandon HAWKER (Fire), Zac IGLESIAS (Stars), Alan KAPCHANGA (Power), Marko RATHOUSKI (Fire), Bailey SORENSON (Fire), Ethan YUEN (Fire)
2: Keiren ALLEN (Power), Cale BROWN (Stars), Andrew FOX (Power), Maxx GREEN (Fire), Ezequiel INOCHEA (Power), Bradley MALONE (Fire), Toby MCPHERSON (Fire), Pedro PEREIRA (Power), Ryan STRAUB (Swift), Jake WILSENER (Stars)
1: Jonathan CIMINELLI (Fire), Damian COLORADO (Power), Callum COOK (Power), Marcus CRISPE (Swift), Dylan DEEP-JONES (Power), Connor FALUSI (Apex), Jason FARRELL (Lightning), Luca FLOREZ (Fire), Brett FORWARD (Lightning), Jamie-Lee GUO (Stars), Joshua HEDDITCH (Power), Clyde HOLO (Apex), Benji KEOMANIVONG (Power), William MANALO (Stars), Nick MIDDLETON (Fire), Angus MURRAY (Stars), Mithun NAVEN (Power), William NESS (Power), Angelo NGUYEN (Stars), Andre OLIVIERA (Power), Jeremy SALEH (Swift), Tony SPASESKI (Swift)
