Rangers v launceston United ( 3rd v 4th Hudson Cup)

Rangers 4 - launceston United 0 Scorers Agele Luate 2 Gabrial Tams 1 Todd Hingston 1 Tonight's match had both sides running either young and up and coming players or letting their reserves have a run. The only noticeable senior player for united was Shannon Rumble,while Rangers rested some of their star players as well. Missing was Chris Hunt,Sam Nuggaten,Brendon Lithchendonk and Mark Ambrose.This allowed Rangers to use some of their talent that is knocking on the door to hold a senior spot. Josh Myer who is from Melbourne had his first senior run and fitting into the Rangers style of play well, setting Hingston up for his goal.

Somerset v Burnie result

Tonight was a see saw game.Both sides were missing key players, Burnie has out Ash Smith,Elliot Stewart, Aiden withers Simon ling,and Peter Vanek but welcomed back Brad Ryan, Aston and Kyrom Johnson. For Somerset they were missing Aaron Moores and Ryan Liston. Somerset looked the better of the two sides in the first half. Having drive through the reliable Keegan Wells and Chris Smith. Danny Eaves had a nice through ball from Smith and found space hitting a shot from about 25 yards, hitting the top left hand corner. A goal which you would see in the English premier league. After the goal the game become a midfield battle. Just before half time somerset were awarded a corner. A low sharp corner from smith seen a deflection from a Burnie player into the goal. Judged an own goal. To burnies credit during the first half they crated some good chances. They created two goals but to be judged off side. Second half saw a more determine Burnie out fit, Burnie scored through Astyn Johnson who received the ball in side the box then carried it down low then Chipped over the keeper to make it 2/1. After the break it become more like the Burnie Somerst riveraly it used to be. With a red card coming from big sides and the more physical game coming into action.The game then become to see saw and both team creating chances but the game stayed 2-1 Somerset.

Round 4 n/w summer cup

This weeks action starts tonight at cardigan st,kicking off at 6. Somerset will host Burnie in a split round. Tomorrow night devonport host Ulverstone. Tonight's match will see two different sides with somerset filling the best side to date with the return of Danny eaves.Coach Wheeler said he is very cautious of the young Burnie side and with the experience of Elliot Stewart and Ashley Smith."they are getting better each week" wheeler said.But this week Burnie will be fielding an under strength side resting its senior players ready for the cup qualification on Monday. The other game is played at Devonport tomorrow night to finish round 4.Ulverstone will be resting both Konkie boys as Adam has a niggaling injury and Shaun will be rested for the Hudson cup final against south Hobart Sunday.But on a brighter note they will not be resting Adrian foot,Breadan Mann or David Horn.We may even see nick along side Breadan this week as I think he will rest a few more.As for the undeafeated Devonport I think they will put together another strong side.

Steve Hudson Cup Final Round Fixtures – Official.

Friday Night 5.45pm - 3rd/4th Northern Rangers v Launceston United

Sunday 11^th of March.

11.00am Seniors New Town Eagles v Launceston City

1.00pm Seniors Glenorchy Knights v Prospect Knights     

3.00pm SHC Final South Hobart v Ulverstone

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10.30am Under 18 Launceston United U18 v Launceston City U18

12.30pm Under 18 South Hobart U18 v Glenorchy Knights U18

Steve Hudson Cup Results

Steve Hudson Cup Results

Northern Rangers 5 (C.Hunt, M.Ambrose 2, T.Hingston, A.Luate) def Prospect Knights 1 (B.Croswell) HT 3:1

Newtown Eagles 3 (Van Linden, Mckeown, Ayres) def Riverside Olympic (N.Lanau-Atkinson) HT 1:1

South Hobart 4 (Postma, Brennan 2, Morton) def Launceston City 1 (Goodwin)

Ulverstone 4 (Mann 2, A.Foote, B.Foote) def Glenorchy Knights 3 (Kamarno, M.Nowicki  OG)

Agele Luate for Northern Rangers

Northern Rangers went into the final round match of the 2012 Steve Hudson Cup needing a win to stay in contention for the final, while Prospect needed a win to have any chance of getting off the foot of the table. Last place sits the final week out with the bye.

Prospect are starting to get some of the premiership side back together, this week Chris Pickering and Sean Harris returned to the line up.

Rangers saw Mark Ambrose return to the starting line up with Simon Petrusma returning to the squad from the bench.

Wet and slippery conditions greeted the sides, as Rangers settled in quickly, moving the ball with one touch pass and move football, and kept Prospect chasing early in the half.

A solid ball from Todd Hingston through midfield to Agel Luate had Luate off and away down the right wing, his cut back found the outstretched boot of Chris Hunt to bury the first goal of the match inside 10 minutes.

Rangers were able to double the lead when Mark Ambrose struck a soft shot from the edge of the 18 yard box and his shot slipped under the diving keeper.

Prospect rallied, and always looked dangerous on the counter.  Ben Croswell turned his defenders at the top of the 18 yard box and kicked through a fine shot that ended in the bottom right hand corner to give Prospect a leg up at 2-1.

Agel Luate managed to score for Rangers within 3 minutes of conceding the goal after he found some space and went one on one with the keeper and finished his shot to restore the Rangers lead and this was the score to half time.

Prospect only had two players on the bench, so it was expected that they would tire in the second half, when Todd Hingston created some room for himself to fire off a shot from just inside the penalty area and score, Rangers were looking dangerous with the score at 4-1.

Riverside's Keeper Mark Littlechild flies to clear the ball.

Prospect to their credit though pushed another player forward to try and reign in the Rangers lead rather than lay down and cop it sweet,  and they created some good chances in the process.  A fine cross from Andy Compagne was tapped out by the Rangers keeper  to the feet of a Prospect striker  who had an open net to score in, but his shot hit the cross bar and the ball returned into play.

Mark Ambrose made the most of the additional space up front when he was sent through with no defenders insight, he rounded the keeper and slotted the shot to put Rangers out to a 5-1 lead and the final result.

Newtown eagles went ahead inside the first 5 minutes over Riverside Olympic when Nathan Pitchford sent a fine long diagonal ball to the right corner, Van Linden latched onto the ball and slipped it past Mark Littlechild in the Riverside goals.

Riverside responded well to conceding the goal and created various chances, but again Nathan Pitchford thwarted the Riverside efforts.  Riverside did however get back on level terms before half time when Nick Lanau-Atkinson pulled one back.

The second half was tight again with Newtown scoring twice through Adam McKeown and Bradley Ayers while Riverside were only able to muster up one goal when Nick Lanau-Atkinson doubled his tally. The 3-2 final score recorded Eagles second win of the cup.

Nick Morton for South Hobart

South Hobart easily over came Launceston City in the end, but not without a late scare, after leading 3-0 at the break, City scored the first goal of the second half to peg the margin back to 3-1.

South opened the scoring through Dylan Postma and Andy Brennan netted a first half brace for South Hobart to be comfortable at 3-0, but it was early in the second half that saw City’s Nick Goodwin narrow the lead and give Launceston City a sniff.

Nick Morton came through for South Hobart to cancel any chance of a late game fight back for City when he netted a good goal from an acute angle with 10 minutes left to play.

Ken Morton said after the game “I thought we played well today, backing up after yesterday’s loss to Zebras, It was important that we carried on trying to play good football.  We just got a bit sharper up front with the breeze behind us.”

Ulverstone Celebrate Adrian Foote's goal that sent the Reds
into next Sunday's final vs South Hobart. Two out of the last
three years, the loser of the Cup final Vs South Hobart, have
gone on to win the NPL title.

“Andy (Brennan) was a bit sharper today and we got good penetration, Mizeal was good as well in the first half, he gave us good width and got in behind.”

“Dylan Postma who has been out of touch scored a good goal, we did better in the front third and Loic Ferral was outstanding in midfield today”

All eyes then turned to the Ulverstone V Glenorchy Knights game, where a 2 goal win would assure Ulverstone progression to the final, or a goal fest more than 3-2.  As it was the game was stuck at 3-2 in Ulverstone’s favour, this result had Rangers through on a count back after beating Ulverstone earlier in the cup.  But Ulverstone dug deep and scored the important fourth goal needed to get them to the final.

Glenorchy started well and led Ulverstone before Ben Foote scored to put Ulverstone back on level terms.  An own goal scored for Knights got them back in front at half time.

Second half and Ulverstone pushed on looking for a berth in the Final with South Hobart and were thrown a life line when Brayden Mann got his first goal thanks to a goal keeper clearance,  then he sunk a goal from a corner to put Ulverstone 3-2 in front.   With just 10 minutes left, Adrian Foote hit a fine first time drive from on the edge of the penalty area that snuck over the keeper and under the cross bar and Ulverstone lead 4-2, Knights did find a consolation goal with 2 minutes left on the referees watch,

but it was too little too late.

Nick Owen said after the game “the first half was rubbish, we couldn’t hit a pass to save ourselves, then second half, we played a few people in different positions and it went alright, we had some good finishes for a change”

The Result leave South Hobart and Ulverstone to battle it out for the Steve Hudson Cup next week in the final.

Final 2012 Steve Hudson Cup Table.

Team	P	W	D	L	+	-	Pts
South Hobart	3	3	0	0	11	3	12
Ulverstone	4	3	0	1	12	7	9
Northern Rangers	4	3	0	1	11	6	9
Launceston United	3	1	0	2	9	7	6
New Town Eagles	4	2	0	2	9	12	6
Glenorchy Knights	4	1	2	1	7	10	5
Riverside Olympic	4	1	1	2	7	7	4
Launceston City	3	0	1	2	2	8	4
Prospect Knights	3	0	0	3	4	15	3

Next week’s fixtures.

Final: South Hobart Vs Ulverstone.

3^rd Place: Northern Rangers vs Launceston United.

5^th Place: Newtown Eagles Vs Glenorchy Knights.

7^th Place: Riverside Olympic Vs Launceston City.

North West Summer Cup Results

Ulverston 6 (B.Mann 2, B.Foote, A.Foote, A.Conkie) Def Burnie 4