New Plymouth Rangers get season back on track

Central Federation League

Peggy Gordon’s New Plymouth Rangers got their Central Federation League season back on track with a 3-2 away victory against Levin on Saturday.

NP Rangers got off to the best start with Niall Leggett scoring from the penalty spot on 27 minutes after a handball.

On 34 minutes, Leggett was on hand with a 20 yard strike that left the keeper stranded and gave Rangers a 2-0 lead.

Levin fought back early in the second half to score through a Tahana Perigo penalty (51 minutes) before Tre De John restored the two-goal lead 10 minutes, later beating the keeper one on one.

The referee awarded the third penalty of the match to Levin for an innocuous handball by William van Kerssen which was duly dispatched by Josh Vine for a consolation goal right on fulltime.

Coach Andy Hamilton was pleased with the performance and said the two penalties scored flattered Levin.

NP Rangers should have scored at least three more goals, which gives him something to work on in this week’s training.

Next Saturday, NP Rangers host Gisborne United at Merrilands Domain in the first ever meeting between the clubs.

Taranaki Premier League

Peringa United got off to the perfect start in the first weekend of the local competitions by beating Inglewood 8-1.

Goals from Jacob Apeldoorn, Ross Malcolm, Adam Lawrence (2), Matt Sanger (2), Pacey Healy and Jayden Gally sealed the victory.

Ben Senior netted a goal for Inglewood.

Waitara’s stay of execution suffered a setback losing 6-2 to New Plymouth Rangers.

Two late Waitara goals including a spectacular free kick from Jonny Kennedy and a Caleb Murray effort stemmed the endless attacks from the visitors with the experienced duo Luke Snellgrove and Sam Jiggins each scoring twice with further goals from Lucasz Zielinski and Michael Lahood on an impressive debut.

Reigning champions NPBHS won comfortably at Eltham 4-1.

Goals from Finn McAuley, Leo consolation

Elder, Zack Young and Jack Flood led the way for the New Plymouth school.

Jordan Buchanan scored for Eltham.

Despite conceding an early goal Moturoa blitzed the newly promoted Kaitake 5-2. Incredibly all the goals were scored in the first half with Oliver Hill scoring a hat-trick inside the first 33 minutes, team-mates Connor Hay and Nick Parthermore also netted. Paul Cunningham and Adrian Wright scored for the visitors.

The FC Western v Woodleigh result was not available.