Hat-Tricks from Briana Maguire and Edith Fordyce Croker helped ANU Apex finish the season on a high as they defeated Queanbeyan-Palerang Power 7-3 in their catch-up match at Radford College on Monday evening.

The Apex secured a second win of the season, but were made to work hard for it, having to come from 1-0 and 2-1 behind to claim the victory, after Zoe Wilson netted twice either side of Maguire’s opening goal of the evening.

Maguire turned the match around by adding two more goals in rapid-fire succession just prior to the half-time interval, leaving Apex with a 3-1 cushion at the break, and they never looked back from there, extending their advantage through a Grace Davey goal with eleven minutes to play.

Fordyce-Croker got in on the act with a four-minute treble of her own late on to take Apex away from any imminent danger, but the final word of the night went to outstanding Power goalkeeper Maja Dodt, who took a break from making sensational saves, to score her first ever CFL goal.

Brittany Palombi took her season total to forty goals as West Canberra Lightning ended the regular season with another thumping win over Queanbeyan-Palerang Power as the Golden Boot winner netted nine times in a one-sided performance at Radford College on Wednesday evening.

Lightning, who back up for their semi-final on Friday evening against South Canberra Swift, were in the goal mood once more as they led 11-0 at the interval, before going on to add a further ten after the break against a Power team which battled gainfully with only five players throughout.

Palombi, who opened the scoring in the first minute, had five by half-time, and was joined on the scoresheet by Jamie Berkeley who struck a magnificent seven, moving her onto 25 goals for the season.

Krista Hagen bagged herself a first-half double, whilst Dianne Wilson ended the match with a hat-trick courtesy of two late goals to add to her strike on the cusp of half-time and thus the scoring in both halves.

RESULTS

Monday 9 December

ANU Apex 7 (Maguire 10’, 18’, 19’, Davey 29’, Fordyce-Croker 30’, 30’, 34’) QP Power 3 (Wilson 6’, 13’, Dodt 35’)

Wednesday 11 December

West Canberra Lightning 21 (Palombi 1’, 8’, 12’, 19’, 19’, 27’, 35’, 37’, 37’, Berkeley 2’, 10’, 18’, 21’, 22’, 28’, 29’, Hagen 7’, 12’, Wilson 20’, 39’, 40’) QP Power 0

TABLE

		P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
1	North Canberra Fire	10	8	1	1	85	28	+57	25
2	West Canberra Lightning	10	7	1	2	105	29	+76	22
3	South Canberra Swift	10	7	1	2	63	30	+33	21
4	UC Stars	10	3	1	6	34	59	-25	10
5	ANU Apex	10	2	2	6	36	49	-11	8
6	QP Power	10	0	0	10	13	141	-128	0

 

TOP SCORERS

40: Brittany PALOMBI (Lightning)

25: Jamie BERKELEY (Lightning)

21: Reilly YUEN (Fire)

17: Sienna BIRNIE (Swift)

12: Sharon CHAO (Fire), Tatum MAZIS (Fire), Dianne WILSON (Lightning)

11: Own GOALS

10: Isabella HINDMARSH (Swift)

9: Natalie DE MARCO (Fire)

8: Krista HAGEN (Lightning)

7: Isabella BARAC (Lightning), Edith FORDYCE-CROKER (Apex), Isabella HOPKINS (Apex), Ayla ROBERTSON (Fire)

6: Anneke CORRY (Swift), Zoe HALPIN (Swift), Jasmine RICHARDS (Fire), Emily ROBERTSON (Stars), Maddie STEINACKER (Swift)

5: Stella DE MARCO (Fire), Alexandra NEALAND (Apex), Bronte PYKE (Fire), Kayla WRIGHT (Stars), Nadia ZAKMAN (Lightning)

4: Amy BONGIORNO (Stars), Megan CASTLE (Stars), Briana MAGUIRE (Apex), Samantha PRICE (Swift), Michaela THORNTON (Lightning)

3: Eliza BAKER (Apex), Cara CERUTI (Swift), Kaitlyn COLWILL (Swift), Lucy D’ARCY (Apex), Grace DAVEY (Apex), Rhianna GOLDSTEIN (Stars), Tayla HAMPSON (Stars), Alyse JENSEN (Swift), Ginger OLIVER (Fire), Becky RIZZO (Stars), Casey SMITH (Power), Zoe WILSON (Power)

2: Chloe DE MEYER (Power), Alex MARTENS (Fire), Sheridan MCELLIGOTT (Apex), Holly MCPHERSON (Stars), Dannielle WALTMAN (Power)

1: Chloe BARKER (Apex), Sophia BISSELL (Apex), Maja DODT (Power), Tina GOPALAN (Apex), Lauren HALL (Swift), Emmalea KALENJUK (Power), Tarah MANTHONGSY (Stars), Jessica MITCHELL (Stars), Eliza-Jane NORRIS (Stars), Sofia PALYWODA (Swift), Megan SNELL (Swift)