As reported by NBN News, minor Premiers Coffs United will take a one-nil advantage into the crucial North Coast Football semi final against Sawtell. The Lions beat the Scorpions 1-Nil on Saturday night while Northern Storm defeated Urunga 2-Nil on Sunday. The teams play each other again in the second leg of the semis this weekend.
Click here for NBN News full story.
Here are the senior draws for this weekend – please see attached. The junior draws were all uploaded last night – note that the black “Finals” tab next to the “Normal Season” fixtures tab needs to be selected for the finals series matches to be displayed.
Also attached is a fixture listing of all competitive games sorted by venue that may be of use.
Seniors-2013-Semifinals-Draw-Week-1.doc
2013-NCF-Week-1-Semifinals-All-Venues.doc
Northern Storm has confirmed that they will be hosting the Mens PL semi-final against Urunga at 2:00pm on Sunday 25/8/13.
Here is our current juniors newsletter giving details of the end of season presentation along with a request for volunteers to take up positions on the committee next year.
As reported by NBN news, the North Coast Football minor premiership will come down to the wire, after Coffs United beat the Urunga Raiders two goals to one. A clumsy challenge on United Midfielder Scott Goddard saw Nathan Silvy step up to smash one passed Blayze Ireland. United claimed another when a Ben McKay cross found Nick Lambert to boot in a second for the Lions. Coffs Coach Mike Smith said “For the boys to even get in this position is amazing so if we can go one more then fine – we’ll look at the finals after that.”
Next Sunday’s match between Coffs and Northern Storm at Korora will now decide which club claims the 2013 minor premiership.
Click here for the NBN News story.
The Round 12 Womens PL fixture between Corindi Breakers & Urunga Raiders has been rescheduled for Thursday 8th August 8:00pm at the BCU International Stadium (utilising the spare field at the Over 35’s).
The main change rooms will be opened specifically for the Womens teams (Over 35’s are allocated to the demountables).
We have been advised of the following:
· Matches scheduled for 03/08/13 – Bellingen v Urunga is a “no points” game
· Matches scheduled for 10/08/13 – All matches are for competition points (Repeat of Round 7 games that were washed out)
PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE DRAW CHANGES FOR 17/08/13
· Sawtell v Urunga is for points (Round 12 catch up match)
This will mean that all teams will have played each other 3 times by the end of the season.
This week’s fixtures for the Mens Over 35’s are as follows:
|
Day |
Date |
Home Team |
Away Team |
Time |
Venue |
|
Wed |
31/07/2013 |
Northern Storm Thunderbolts |
Urunga Raiders |
18:10 |
Int. Stadium 1 |
Please note that there are no games on Thursday 1st August because of the Coffs Cup half day holiday. This means that games need to be played on Wednesday evening.
The following is a split of competition for the Over 35’s. The competition has been split at 4 and 7 to allow for the disparity between the overall groups results.
|
POS |
TEAM |
P |
W |
L |
D |
F |
A |
GD |
PTS |
|
1 |
10 |
9 |
0 |
1 |
70 |
14 |
56 |
28 |
|
|
2 |
10 |
8 |
1 |
1 |
49 |
26 |
23 |
25 |
|
|
3 |
10 |
7 |
2 |
1 |
43 |
17 |
26 |
22 |
|
|
4 |
10 |
7 |
3 |
0 |
46 |
30 |
16 |
21 |
|
|
5 |
10 |
3 |
5 |
2 |
35 |
35 |
0 |
11 |
|
|
6 |
10 |
3 |
5 |
2 |
28 |
39 |
-11 |
11 |
|
|
7 |
10 |
3 |
6 |
1 |
19 |
33 |
-14 |
10 |
|
|
8 |
10 |
3 |
6 |
1 |
30 |
56 |
-26 |
10 |
|
|
9 |
10 |
3 |
7 |
0 |
30 |
48 |
-18 |
9 |
|
|
10 |
10 |
2 |
7 |
1 |
12 |
48 |
-36 |
7 |
|
|
11 |
10 |
1 |
7 |
2 |
18 |
34 |
-16 |
5 |
The competition going forward will follow the following competition outline:
|
Week Comm. |
Div 1 |
Div 2 |
|
31-Jul |
Round 1 |
Round 1 |
|
8-Aug |
Round 2 |
Round 2 |
|
15-Aug |
Round 3 |
Round 3 |
|
22-Aug |
1 V 2 Semi |
Round 4 |
|
|
3 V 4 Semi |
|
|
29-Aug |
Prelim Final |
1 V 4 – K.O. |
|
|
2 V 3 – K.O. |
|
|
Additional Games to be scheduled. |
||
|
6-Sep |
Grand Final |
Grand Final |
Division 1 will complete a full round, then follow the Finals series to a Grand Final on 6 September.
Division 2 will compete in 4 rounds in a luck of the draw style format. On week commencing 29 August, A knock out final will take place in addition to other scheduled games, followed by Grand Final on the 6th September.
Raiders Women’s Teams Dig Deep to Hold Top of the Table Positions
Once again this weekend the Raiders women’s teams where struggling for numbers to make up two full teams.
In the first game of the day the raiders traveled to Dorrigo to take on the second placed Highlanders. With so many players missing the Raiders where unable to find there regular cohesion against a well drilled Dorrigo side and where eventually beaten 2-1 in a hard fought game. Although beaten by Dorrigo the Raiders still retain first place on the table, just with a reduced lead. Play of the day was the goal of Deb Baigent whose thundering left foot drive left the Dorrigo keeper wondering which direction the ball was going.
After finishing their game against Dorrigo the team got into their cars for the drive over to Dairyville to take on the Orara Valley side in the first grade game. In their first round game Urunga had recorded an easy 13-0 win at Urunga, but the girls where not taking Orara lightly with all but 2 players backing up for their second game of the day. Urunga’s back line of Kim, Gabby, Sarah & Jemima where put under pressure early but where able to stop most of the Orara Valley side attacks and any that did get through where quickly picked up by Shelby in goals.
In the 21st minute of the first half Kanisha was able to turn her defender after good lead up work from Breanna to fire her shot past the keeper to give the Raiders a 1-0 lead. Urunga continued to push forward with attacks from Kanisha, Richelle and Donna continually causing trouble for the defence and having the Orara keeper making countless saves. The first half also saw the welcome return of Crystal after a lay off with injury and a couple of more games under her belt should see her back to full match fitness.
The second half of the match saw Urunga’s midfield of Breanna , Crystal and Jemara continue to feed through balls to their forwards and in the 25th minute one of these passes found Kanisha in a sprint from half way that lead to her second goal and give Urunga some breathing space Not to be dispirited Orara continued to push balls forward, but Urunga defence held tight and gave very few chances for Orara to score. In the final minutes of the game Breanna was rewarded for an outstanding effort the whole match when she was able to score from close range after a pass from Kanisha found her unmarked in the penalty area. A good 3-0 win to the Raiders keeps them on top of the table in first grade. A special mention goes to Sharon and Sharna who’s play when they came on from the bench was outstanding, and to Deb who made sure that all the players that where subbed off during the game had a warm bench to sit on.
Report by Ian “Goph” Connor
The All Clubs meeting scheduled for 29 July has been postponed.
Urunga-Newsletter-end-year.pdf