Wagga City Wanderers roared to a second win of the season as they hammered West Canberra Wanderers 7-2 at Gissing Oval to move onto seven points in a weekend that saw half the fixture list postponed.
The home team were always in control of the match and were ahead by the seventeenth minute when Thomas Yongai struck the first of his double, closely followed by a strike from Kade Lyons to make it two.
Lyons would add a third before the break, eventually ending the contest with four goals to move onto five for the league season. Before then Marcus Grzic and Van Nguyen pulled goals back for West Canberra, sparking hopes of an unlikely comeback, but that was halted when Isasc Brooker made it 5-2.
Lyons completed a hat-trick in the final minute and still had time to bag a fourth in stoppage time to complete the thrashing.
In a match that was switched to the synthetic surface at Melrose, the home of West Canberra Wanderers, a solitary goal proved enough for Canberra Juventus to secure a 1-0 win over Brindabella Blues.
The strike came with fifteen minutes of the match remaining via Juventus forward Cristian Barresi and moved Juve up to fifth in the league table. The loss was the Blues’ third of the season.
Due to the inclement weather conditions scross Canberra during the week, ACT Sportsgrounds were shut on the weekend meaning that the matches scheduled for ANU South Oval, featuring ANU FC against Canberra Olympic, and Woden Park, between White Eagles and Belconnen United, were postponed.
RESULTS
ROUND 7
Saturday 24 May
Brindabella Blues 0 Canberra Juventus 1 (Barresi 75’)
Wagga City Wanderers 7 (Yongai 17’, 85’, Lyons 22’, 44’, 90’, 90+3’, Brooker 76’) West Canberra Wanderers 2 (Grzic 51’, Nguyen 61’)
ANU FC v Canberra Olympic – Match Postponed
White Eagles v Belconnen United – Match Postponed
TABLE
| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PTS | ||
| 1 | Canberra Olympic | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 6 | +17 | 16 |
| 2 | Belconnen United | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 7 | +8 | 14 |
| 3 | ANU FC | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 12 | +4 | 11 |
| 4 | Brindabella Blues | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 11 | +4 | 10 |
| 5 | Canberra Juventus | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 15 | -6 | 9 |
| 6 | White Eagles | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 12 | +1 | 7 |
| 7 | Wagga City Wanderers | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 16 | -1 | 7 |
| 8 | West Canberra | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 31 | -27 | 0 |
TOP SCORERS
7: Sergio LINDNER (White Eagles)
6: Mate BARISIC (Canberra Olympic), Curtis SCHAEFFER (Brindabella Blues)
5: Remi GACHET (Canberra Olympic), Kade LYONS (Wagga City Wanderers), Own GOALS
4: Mate BARISIC (Canberra Olympic), Abderrahim DELLAHI (White Eagles), GIBSON (ANU FC)
3: Hassan ALNUWAYSIR (Canberra Olympic), Tom COSENTINI (Canberra Juventus), Michael RINAUDO (Belconnen United), Antoni TIMOTHEOU (Canberra Olympic), Thomas YONGAI (Wagga City Wanderers)
2: Harry BILLINGTON (Belconnen United), Jake BISHOP (Belconnen United), Jonathan JOHN (Brindabella Blues), Samuel LYE (ANU FC), Andre OLIVEIRA (ANU FC), Babin PAUDYAL (Canberra Juventus), Mark SHIELDS (Canberra Olympic), Henry WILKS (Brindabella Blues)
1: Andrew AITCHISON (West Canberra Wanderers), Deng ALEER DENG (Brindabella Blues), Cristian BARRESI (Canberra Juventus), Dylan BARRETO (Canberra Juventus), Julian BORGNA (Canberra Olympic), Elijah BROOKER (Wagga City Wanderers), Isaac BROOKER (Wagga City Wanderers), Eliseo CASTRO (Canberra Juventus),Zac CHADWICK (ANU FC), Monteagh GRACE (ANU FC), Marcus GRZIC (West Canberra Wanderers), Finn HARMER (Brindabella Blues), Jacon HART (ANU FC), Ben HICK (White Eagles), Nicholas HOPE (ANU FC), Jayde JAMES-WARD (Belconnen United), Morris KADZOLA (Wagga City Wanderers), Ethan KRUG (ANU FC), Tony MADAFFARI (Canberra Juventus), Jasper MILIN (Canberra Juventus), Zachary MILCZAREK (Canberra Olympic), Alasdair MOORE (ANU FC), Max MOTTL (ANU FC), Adam NEOU (Canberra Olympic), Van NGUYEN (West Canberra Wanderers), Jacob OCHIENG (Wagga City Wanderers), Patrick O’ROURKE (Belconnen United), Maxwell PREST (Wagga City Wanderers), Ferney RENTERIA (White Eagles), Pedro SERRANO (Belconnen United), Kye SMITH (Belconnen United), Ethan STAMATIS (West Canberra Wanderers), Zac STEELE (Wagga City Wanderers), Dustin WELLS (Belconnen United), Oliver WIEDERKEHR (Canberra Olympic), Riley WILLIAMS (Brindabella Blues), Oliver WIRTZENS (Brindabella Blues), Kyle YEATES (Wagga City Wanderers)
