AWD Futsal League 2 Grand Final

Raiders Futsal Club have run out convincing 5-2 winners in the Select AWD Futsal League 2 Grand Final held on Saturday 25 February 2017.

AWD Futsal League 2 Golden Boot Dion Kalogiros showed why he was crowned that four minutes into the contest as he stabbed home for a 1-nil lead.

Phoenix Futsal Club responded almost immediately as Rodney Afif was on hand to sweep home a nicely worked goal to restore parity at 1-1.

Sean Brown went close to restoring the Raiders lead as he tried to cannon one past Phoenix custodian Nicole Murray but she was up to task and pushed it over the cage.

The second would come for the Raiders from who else but Kalogiros as he nudged the ball across Murray for 2-1. Kevin Frew added a third with a nice side foot finish before the break as the Raiders made it 3-1.

Harry Woodhouse clawed one back for the Phoenix side as he turned nicely before he finished with aplomb to make it 3-2.

From there though, it was the Kalogiros show – the golden boot winner added two more well taken finishes for a bag of four goals at full-time. His hat-trick was a powerful shot that was too much for Murray to handle.

The final goal was a cheeky finish from a Murray Elbourn corner to Kalogiros late in the game as Raiders looked to entertain the crowd. For their effort Phoenix continued to search for goals as Sebastian Sauri had a pair of chances which were slashed wide.

In the end, Raiders ran out well deserved victors in a game played in good spirits and intensity by both teams and a fitting end to the AWD Futsal League 2 season.

Raiders Futsal 5 (Kalogiros 4 and Frew) defeated Phoenix Futsal Club 2 (Afif and Woodhouse)
Phoenix FS: 1 Nicole SIMPSON 3 Rodney AFIF 4 Wayne MCDONOUGH 5 Raymond YOUNG 6 Shannon WALFORD 7 Sebastian SAURI 8 Vito GIRRANTINO 9 Harry WOODHOUSE 10 Brooke CROSSINGHAM 11 John MEEHAN 12 Shawn WALFORD 46 Brendan SMITH

COACH: Greg BROWN

Raiders FS: 1 Murray ELBOURN 2 Sean BROWN 4 Rory VANDERVEER 5 Dion KALOGIROS 6 Todd DORWARD 8 Shaun FITZPATRICK 9 Matthew BOWRY 10 Kevin FREW 12 Nejat HAYDARDEDEOGLU 99 Kyle SCHABERG

COACH: David TAYLOR MANAGER: Stephanie TAYLOR