Green Island marches on with 61 rout of Q’town
GREEN Island continued its surge towards the southern football championship title with another emphatic victory over one of its main challengers.
Queenstown generally does not travel well and so it proved at Sunnyvale, when Green Island romped home 61.
Matt Brazier set Sunnyvale alight with a first half hattrick, with goals on 26, 33 and 45 minutes.
Luke Dennington scored an own goal on 51 minutes making it 40.
Jan Kumar pulled one back with 15 minutes left.
Late goals to Blake Porteous and Tim Milton gave Green Island a deserved 61 victory
Wanaka also carried on its winning way and moved into midtable safety with a 60 victory in Invercargill over Southland.
After six minutes, Weston Bell’s wellstruck free kick from 22m out found the bottom right corner of the net.
Wanaka made it 20 when Steve Pleskun scored from an acute angle in the 36th minute.
A minute later Southland was 30 down, when Thomas Van Hees won the ball at halfway and then drove forward, beating two challenges.
He found himself oneonone with Southland’s keeper and drove his shot high into the net.
Pleskun found the net again after great build up play from Toa Roode in the 60th minute to make it 40.
Harry Grimsdale was next to get in the action, as he earned a penalty and converted with authority in the 65th minute.
Then Grimsdale scored again when he ran on to a wellweighted long ball from centre back John Skilton and calmly finished under the advancing keeper to make it 60 on 77 minutes.