Written by Roy Hay.
National Youth League
Round 16
Southern Division
Friday 16 January 1998
Bentleigh Greens 2 Heidelberg United 2
(Con Papettas, Leigh Wilkinson) (Nick Papoutsis, Panteleimon Pasgas)
Sunday 18 January 1998
Melbourne Knights 2 South Melbourne 1
(own goal, Michael Bosevski) (James Kasikakis)
South Melbourne Rockets 2 Altona Magic 4
(Nondas Manolitis, Aytec Yilmaz) (Bill Trpcevski 2, Pece Cergovski,
own goal)
Albury Wodonga 0 Bulleen Inter 0
Carlton v Bye
VIS v Bye
Gippsland Falcons v Bye
Northern Division
Friday 16 January 1998
Newcastle Breakers 1 NSWIS 1
(Luke Knott) (Shane Cansdell-Sherriff)
Saturday 17 January 1998
QAS 0 Wollongong City 1
(Denis Jurjevic)
ACTAS 2 Marconi Fairfield 1
(Michael Katz, Mathew Valeri) (Chad Gibson)
Sunday 18 January 1998
UTS Olympic Colts 2 Sydney United Colts 2
(Ali Jomaa, Scott Baillie) (Mark Rudan 2)
Marconi Fairfield Colts 1 Sydney United 5
(Mark Haggar) (Azur Mujanovic 2, Mario Jerman,
Joel Griffiths, Daniel Kukucka)
UTS Olympic v Bye
AIS v Bye
League Ladders
Southern Division
Team P W D L F A Pts
Melbourne Knights 14 12 0 2 51 15 36
Carlton 11 10 0 1 25 5 30
Gippsland Falcons 12 8 2 2 23 11 26
V I S 12 6 3 3 30 15 21
Bulleen Inter 12 5 2 5 18 18 17
Bentleigh Greens 13 4 2 7 14 26 14
Heidelberg United 12 4 2 6 14 26 14
Albury Wodonga 12 3 1 8 14 18 10
South Melbourne 12 2 3 7 22 21 9
Altona Magic 11 2 2 7 16 32 8
South Melbourne Rockets 11 1 1 9 11 51 4
Northern Division
Team P W D L F A Pts
A I S 13 10 2 1 58 10 32
UTS Olympic 13 7 3 3 36 21 24
Wollongong City 14 7 3 4 29 22 24
Q A S 14 6 4 4 32 18 22
Marconi Fairfield 14 6 2 6 23 27 20
A C T A S 14 5 4 5 18 38 19
Sydney United 13 4 6 3 35 26 18
Marconi Fairfield Colts 13 5 2 6 19 31 17
Newcastle Breakers 13 4 4 5 25 28 16
Sydney United Colts 13 3 2 8 15 35 11
UTS Olympic Colts 14 3 2 9 19 45 11
N S W I S 14 2 4 8 18 26 10
Leading goalscorers
Southern Division
Name Team Goals
Zoran Petrevski VIS 12
Adis Kablar Melbourne Knights 9
Jovanco Novacevski Carlton 8
John Kalabric Melbourne Knights 8
Festim Zekiri Melbourne Knights 7
Northern Division
Name Team Goals
Mile Sterjovski AIS/Sydney United 22
Mark Hagger Marconi Fairfield Colts 14
Marc Bresciano AIS 9
Tony Krslovic Sydney United/Colts 8
Round 17
Southern Division
Saturday 24 January 1998
Heidelberg United v Bulleen Inter (4 pm, Olympic Village)
Altona Magic v VIS (5.30 pm, Paisley Park)
Sunday 25 January 1998
Gippsland Falcons v Bentleigh Greens (3.30 pm, Falcons Park)
Carlton v Albury Wodonga (5.30 pm, Optus Oval)
South Melbourne v Bye
Bye v Melbourne Knights
Bye v Bulleen Inter
Northern Division
Saturday 24 January 1998
N S W I S v UTS Olympic (5 pm, Valentine Park)
UTS Olympic Colts v Newcastle Breakers (4 pm, St George Stadium)
Sunday 25 January 1998
Wollongong City v Sydney United Colts (3.30 pm, Brandon Park)
Marconi Fairfield Colts v A C T A S (5 pm, Marconi Stadium)
Sydney United v A I S (4 pm, Parramatta Stadium)
Bye v Marconi Fairfield
Bye v Q A S
National Youth League (Southern Division), 16-18 January 1998
by Roy Hay
Bentleigh Greens and Heidelberg United drew two-all at Kingston Heath on
Friday night. con Papettas and Leigh Wilkinson scored for the Greens and
Nick Papoutsis and Panteleimon Pasgas for the Bergers. Leigh Wilkinson
who joined the Greens from Cranbourne had an excellent match in addition to
his goal.
League leader Melbourne Knights had to come from behind to beat South
Melbourne by two goals to one. The top team was stung when James
Kasikakis fired in a shot after 27 minutes which took a wicked deflection
off Andrija Batur leaving keeper Andrew Belaich stranded. Worse followed
when Ivica Kolceg was sent off for his second offence late in the first
half. Six minutes into the second half Michael Bosevski drove to the bye
line and hammered over a cross which Louie Rozanitis deflected past his
keeper Chris Jones, while under pressure from John Kalabric. Adis Kablar
then put the South Melbourne defence under pressure and the referee
construed that a ball played back in the direction of the keeper was a
deliberate pass-back. When the keeper picked up the ball an indirect free
kick was awarded which was touched to Michael Bosevski who drove it into
the net in 64 minutes. Belaich was then penalised in turn for handling
outside his area, but Nick Orlich, beginning his comeback with the youth
team, fired the resultant free kick into the Knights' wall and the match
ended with the Knights still ahead.
South Melbourne Rockets went down by four goals to two at home to Altona
Magic. It was two-all at the break with goals by Nondas Manolitis and
Aytec Yilmaz in 18 and 20 minutes for the Rockets. But the Rockets had
already given away an early own goal and Bill Trpcevski brought the Magic
level in 36 minutes. Trpcevski added his second on the hour and Pece
Cergovski rounded off the Magic's win.
Albury Wodonga and Bulleen Inter could not be separated in a scoreless draw
in Albury. Jim Wibskov was outstanding in goal for the northerners and
Ben Menzies starred in the midfield.
National Youth League (Northern Division), 16-18 January 1998
Newcastle Breakers and the New South Wales Institute of Sport drew one-all
at Topper Stadium on Friday. There was some dispute about the Newcastle
goal, some suggesting it was an own goal, but the referee credited it to
Luke Knott. Shane Cansdell-Sheriff equalised for the the Institute.
A Denis Jurjevic goal for Wollongong gave the Wolves a one-nil win at
Suncorp Stadium over the Queensland Academy of Sport. It was as tight as
the score suggests, though both sides felt they had created enough chances
to ensure victory.
Michael Katz and Mathew Valeri scored for the ACT Academy at Seiffert Oval
against Marconi. It was well into injury time before Chad Gibson got a
consolation goal for the visitor.
UTS Olympic Colts and Sydney United Colts drew two-all at Belmore. Ali
Jomaa and Scott Baillie scored for Olympic and Mark Rudan had a double for
United.
Finally Sydney United overcame Marconi Fairfield Colts by five goals to
one. Azur Mujanovic scored two for United, and singles fell to Mario
Jerman, Joel Griffiths and Daniel Kukucka. Mark Haggar grabbed his
fourteenth of the season for the Colts team.