Wagga City Wanderers moved to within touching distance of the top four of the Capital Premier League with a 5-2 home win over White Eagles at Gissing Oval in the only match played in the division on the weekend.
Wanderers were ahead early on as Naser Smoqy opened the scoring in the fifteenth minute of the match and it was 2-0 before half-time as Zac Steele scored the first of his two on the day,
Steele was to grab a second, and his fourth of the season three minutes after the restart as Wagga City took control of the match, before Ali Sohani was able to pull one back for the Eagles with nineteen minutes remaining.
That precipitated a flurry of goals in the final stages of the contest with Kade Lyons securing the points with his sixth goal of the CPL season. An own goal from Jack Murray in the final minute gave Wagga second successive large home win, Damien Kennedy’s stoppage time goal a consolation for the travelling Eagles.
RESULTS
ROUND 9
Wednesday 4 June
ANU FC 7 (Hart 10’, Gibson 49’, 51’, 84’, 90’, Lye 68’, Hadfield 86’) West Canberra Wanderers 1 (Vickers 60’)
Belconnen United 4 (Rinaudo 4’, Wells 40’, 79’, Ringi 81’) Canberra Juventus 2 (Shore 7’, Milin 84’)
Brindabella Blues 1 (Wilks 78’) Canberra Olympic 3 (Borgna 26’, 45’, Neou 90’)
Saturday 7 June
Wagga City Wanderers 5 (Smoqy 15’, Steele 27’, 48’, Lyons 86’, Murray 90’ (og)) White Eagles 2 (Sohani 71’, Kennedy 90+2’)
TABLE
| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PTS | ||
| 1 | Canberra Olympic | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 9 | +23 | 22 |
| 2 | Belconnen United | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 9 | +11 | 20 |
| 3 | ANU FC | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 13 | +14 | 17 |
| 4 | Canberra Juventus | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 19 | -4 | 12 |
| 5 | Brindabella Blues | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 15 | +1 | 10 |
| 6 | Wagga City Wanderers | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 24 | -2 | 10 |
| 7 | White Eagles | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 22 | -7 | 7 |
| 8 | West Canberra | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 41 | -36 | 0 |
TOP SCORERS
11: Jack GIBSON (ANU FC)
7: Mate BARISIC (Canberra Olympic), Sergio LINDNER (White Eagles)
6: Kade LYONS (Wagga City Wanderers), Curtis SCHAEFFER (Brindabella Blues), Own GOALS
5: Julian BORGNA (Canberra Olympic), Remi GACHET (Canberra Olympic)
4: Mate BARISIC (Canberra Olympic), Abderrahim DELLAHI (White Eagles), Michael RINAUDO (Belconnen United), Zac STEELE (Wagga City Wanderers), Thomas YONGAI (Wagga City Wanderers)
3: Hassan ALNUWAYSIR (Canberra Olympic), Cristian BARRESI (Canberra Juventus), Jake BISHOP (Belconnen United), Tom COSENTINI (Canberra Juventus), Samuel LYE (ANU FC), Antoni TIMOTHEOU (Canberra Olympic), Dustin WELLS (Belconnen United), Henry WILKS (Brindabella Blues)
2: Harry BILLINGTON (Belconnen United), Jacob HART (ANU FC), Jonathan JOHN (Brindabella Blues), Zachary MILCZAREK (Canberra Olympic), Jasper MILIN (Canberra Juventus), Adam NEOU (Canberra Olympic), Andre OLIVEIRA (ANU FC), Babin PAUDYAL (Canberra Juventus), Mark SHIELDS (Canberra Olympic)
1: Andrew AITCHISON (West Canberra Wanderers), Deng ALEER DENG (Brindabella Blues), Dylan BARRETO (Canberra Juventus), Elijah BROOKER (Wagga City Wanderers), Isaac BROOKER (Wagga City Wanderers), Eliseo CASTRO (Canberra Juventus),Zac CHADWICK (ANU FC), Lewis DOBBION (ANU FC), Nick FAUST (Canberra Olympic), Monteagh GRACE (ANU FC), Marcus GRZIC (West Canberra Wanderers), Benjamin HADFIELD (ANU FC), Finn HARMER (Brindabella Blues), Ben HICK (White Eagles), Nicholas HOPE (ANU FC), Jayde JAMES-WARD (Belconnen United), Morris KADZOLA (Wagga City Wanderers), Damien KENNEDY (White Eagles), Ethan KRUG (ANU FC), Tony MADAFFARI (Canberra Juventus), Jak MATIC (Canberra Juventus), Alasdair MOORE (ANU FC), Max MOTTL (ANU FC), Van NGUYEN (West Canberra Wanderers), Jacob OCHIENG (Wagga City Wanderers), Patrick O’ROURKE (Belconnen United), Maxwell PREST (Wagga City Wanderers), Ferney RENTERIA (White Eagles), Tupaia RINGI (Belconnen United), Pedro SERRANO (Belconnen United), Patrick SHORE (Canberra Juventus), Kye SMITH (Belconnen United), Naser SMOQY (Wagga City Wanderers), Ali SOHANI (White Eagles), Bailey SORENSON (Canberra Olympic), Ethan STAMATIS (West Canberra Wanderers), Liam VICKERS (West Canberra Wanderers), Oliver WIEDERKEHR (Canberra Olympic), Riley WILLIAMS (Brindabella Blues), Oliver WIRTZENS (Brindabella Blues), Kyle YEATES (Wagga City Wanderers)
