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Tuesday, December 23
Bulls whip Olympic to boost chances
Bull Bay's Dwayne Williams (left) jostles for possession with Olympic Gardens' Cannilo Oakley in their KSAFA Super League match at Cling Cling Oval yesterday. Bull Bay won 5-2. (Photo: Devon Chin)
Bull Bay strengthened their chances of a place in the KSAFA Super League mid-season final against early qualifiers, Maverley/Hughenden, with a 5-2 whipping of Olympic Gardens at Cling Cling Oval yesterday.
Dwayne Williams (3rd minute), Ondino Griffiths (18th), Andre Hines (48th), Dellon Wilson (86th) and Nicholas Dodd (90th) scored for the victors.
Syian Wignal (13th) and Winston Ellis (69th) responded for the losers.
Referee, Michael Mitchell, issued red cards on Olympic Gardens' Andrew Edwards and Afreca Smith.
Bull Bay's defender, Dwayne Gaynor (right), makes a desperate lunge as he tries to prevent Olympic Gardens' Syian Wignal from shooting in their rescheduled KSAFA Super League game at Cling Cling Oval yesterday. Bull Bay won 5-2. (Photo: Devon Chin)
Edwards was given his marching orders in the 85th minute for a deliberate swinging elbow, while Smith was carded after the match for using "offensive and abusive" language to the referee.
The win moves Bull Bay to 19 points and they await the result of the Santos\Duhaney Park match. Santos are on 16 points and could go to 19 against lowly Duhaney Park, but to reach the final ahead of Bull Bay, they will have to win by at least three clear goals.
Though Bull Bay got a deserved victory yesterday, coach Barrington Gaynor, was still unhappy with aspects of his team's play.
"We didn't play a great game, but we created a lot of goal-scoring chances. We need to start playing better in defence, because when you score five goals you are not supposed to give up two," he mourned.
Olympic Gardens player/coach, Andrew Hall, has mountains of problems facing his team which includes indiscipline.
"It is a long time I have seen 10 players at training. After this round I will be asking some people not to return," Hall said.
Four of Bull Bay's strikes were beauties. The first one was a magnificent right-footed volley from Williams just on the edge of 18-yard box.
Olympic got back into the match when Wignal outjumped the Bull Bay defence to head home a right-sided corner kick.
The visitors were fired into the lead by Griffiths who tapped in Mahlon Sullivan's low cross to beat 'keeper, Dave Samuels.
Bull Bay - demoted from the National Premier League last season - extended their lead with another brilliant goal. Hines, who was dished a pass down the left flank, drove a left-footed volley to the far corner of the Olympic goal, giving the goalie no chance.
Olympic's treble substitution added fire to the attack and before long, the homesters shaved Bull Bay's lead when Ellis blast home from point-blank range from a ball hooked in from the byeline.
Despite Olympic's few threatening moves, the visitors kept their calm and went about consolidating their advantage.
Substitute Wilson made it 4-2 when he ran unmarked onto Dodd's teasing low ball across the face of the Olympic goal and drove home a thunderous left-footer from just inside the area.
Dodd then put the icing on the cake late in the match when he ran onto a loose ball, controlled and blasted his right-footed shot into the roof of the net from 20 yards.
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