National Youth League Round 23

National Youth League Round 23

Written by Roy Hay.



Round 23

Southern Division

Wednesday 18 March 1998

Altona Magic		0	Bulleen Inter		1
				(Zoran Kostadinovski)

VIS			4	Albury-Wodonga		0
(Joshua Kennedy, Mustafa Mustafa,
Serhat Hulusi, Boris Ovcin)

Heidelberg United	0	Carlton			10
				(Marco Maisano 4, Pece Siveski 3,
				Cameron Pino 2, Robert Trajkovski)

(Match brought forward from Round 24)

Sunday 22 March 1998

South Melbourne	1	Gippsland Falcons		2
(James Kasikakis)	(Luke Cheney, Alex Halikias)

South Melbourne Rockets v Melbourne Knights (already played)

Bye v Bentleigh Greens

Tuesday 24 March 1998

Bulleen Inter Kings	v	Melbourne Knights
()				()
(Match brought forward from Round 26)

Northern Division

Saturday 21 March 1998

UTS Olympic Colts	2	NSWIS			3
(Matt Seale 2)			(Liam Austin, Daniel Watkins,
				Michael Cavallaro)

AIS			4	Sydney United Colts	0
(Michael Ferrante, Ljubo Milicevic,
Ivan Ergic, David Onoforo)

QAS			2	ACTAS			0
(Francis Cosson, Russell Miner)

Sunday 22 March 1998

Sydney United		1	UTS Olympic		2
(Azur Mujanovic)		(Peter Zorbas 2)

Marconi Fairfield Colts	2	Newcastle Breakers	2
(Chad Gibson, Terry Palapanis)	(Greg Owens, Chad Mansley)

Wollongong City	v	Bye

Bye	v	Marconi Fairfield



League ladders

Southern Divsion

Team			P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Melbourne Knights	18	16	0	2	77	20	48
Carlton			18	16	0	2	47	10	48
Gippsland Falcons	18	13	2	3	44	18	41
V I S			17	9	3	5	41	19	30
Bulleen Inter		17	9	2	6	27	21	29
Bentleigh Greens	18	7	2	9	26	33	23
Heidelberg United	18	6	2	10	25	50	20
Albury Wodonga		19	5	1	13	26	36	16
South Melbourne		18	4	3	11	33	32	15
Altona Magic		18	3	2	13	19	67	11
South Melbourne Rockets	17	1	1	15	13	72	4

Northern Divsion

A I S			20	14	2	4	71	19	44
UTS Olympic		19	11	4	4	57	28	37
Wollongong City		20	11	4	5	43	36	37
Q A S			20	10	4	6	42	24	34
Sydney United		19	8	6	5	51	35	30
Marconi Fairfield	19	9	2	8	38	36	29
Newcastle Breakers	19	7	6	6	41	36	27
Marconi Fairfield Colts	20	7	4	9	32	45	25
A C T A S		20	5	6	9	23	51	21
Sydney United Colts	19	4	3	12	23	54	15
N S W I S		19	3	5	11	24	45	14
UTS Olympic Colts	20	3	4	13	29	65	13

Leading goalscorers

Southern Division

Name			Team			Goals
Adis Kablar		Melbourne Knights	14
John Kalabric		Melbourne Knights	13
Zoran Petrevski		VIS			12
Jovanco Novacevski	Carlton			10
Luke Cheney		Gippsland Falcons	10

Northern Division

Name			Team			Goals
Mile Sterjovski		AIS/Sydney United	25
Mark Hagger		Marconi Fairfield Colts	20
Joe Bruni		Marconi Fairfield	13
Chris Tanchevski	Newcastle Breakers/AIS	11
Azur Mujanovic		Sydney United		11
Jim Bakis		UTS Olympic		10
Nick Carle		UTS Olympic		10


National Youth League (Southern Division), 18-22 March 1998

by Roy Hay

Round 23 kicked-off with Altona Magic at home to Bulleen Inter on
Wednesday last and the game turned on the only goal scored by Zoran
Kostadinovski for Bulleen in 17 minutes.   Both sides had numerous
chances to alter the score but the defences held out till the end.

The Victorian Institute of Sport beat Albury Wodonga by four goals to
nil at Kim Reserve.   Joshua Kennedy scored the opener after only six
minutes on his first starting game since joining the Institute. =20
Mustafa Mustafa made it two four minutes later.   Serhat Hulusi added
the third in 48 and Boris Ovcin completed the scoring in 66.   Albury
Wodonga keeper Joel Davey was outstanding, keeping out a number of VIS
attempts as the Institute took control of the match.   Adrian Cuzzupe,
Kennedy and Mustafa were the pick of the VIS players.   Ovcin, Kennedy,
Steve Laurie, Joey di Iorio and Fab Lettieri are off to the Joeys
training camp next week.

South Melbourne led Gippsland Falcons by a James Kasikakis goal just
before the interval, but the lads from the Valley hit back with two
second half goals to win two-one.   Luke Cheney took his goal tally for
the season to double figures in 73 minutes and substitute Alex Halikias
made the points secure in 84.

In a match brought forward from Round 24 Carlton hammered Heidelberg
United by ten goals to nil.   Marco Maisano was chief destroyer with
four, while Pece Siveski grabbed a hat-trick and Cameron Pino two
goals.   The other came from Robert Trajkovski, his second in
successive games for the Youth team.

National Youth League (Northern Division), 21-22 March 1998

The Australian Institute of Sport had another good win over
Sydney United Colts by four goals to nil.   Michael Ferrante opened the
scoring and sweeper Ljubo Milicevic added a second just before the
break.   Ivan Ergic in 66 and David Onoforo after 76 got the second
half goals.

In a tough and thoroughly entertaining match UTS Olympic just came out
on top against Sydney United by two goals to one.   Peter Zorbas was on
target twice for Olympic while Azur Mujanovic's eleventh goal of the
season was all that United could manage.   Olympic and Wollongong City,
which had a bye this week, remain seven points behind the AIS, but
Olympic has a game in hand.

Queensland Academy of Sport had a two-nil win over the ACT Academy at
Suncorp, with goals by Francis Cosson and Russell Miner.   This keeps
the Queenslanders in fourth place four points ahead of Sydney United.

NSW Institute of Sport just managed to beat UTS Olympic Colts by three
goals to two.   Matt Seale scored both goals for Olympic Colts, but
Liam Austin, Daniel Watkins and Michael Cavallaro were the marksmen for
the Institute.

Finally Marconi Fairfield Colts and Newcastle Breakers drew two-all at
Marconi Stadium.   Chad Gibson and Terry Palapanis scored for the Colts
and Greg Owens and Chad Mansley for the Breakers.   The draw maintains
the relative position of the two teams which are seven and eight on the
table, with Newcastle ahead by two points.