NUAFC 1968-2018

Following last week’s win against Huntly Thistle
2nd Div. team, Ngaruawahia met them for the second of the
two-match challenge on Saturday. Huntly Thistle donated a
cup for the best of two matches or highest goal average
between Ngaruawahia and Huntly in an after-season clash.
With last week’s 6-2 win behind them, United only
needed to prevent Huntly from winning by more than 4 goals.
United met their challengers at Ngaruawahia in gusty winds
and occasional driving rain. Referee Ian McNaught started
the game and controlled it well right throughout the hour and
a half.
Charlie Gorman put in the first ball ten minutes
from the start by drawing keeper Healey out and slipping the
ball past him into the net. Thistle used the wind well, but
could not get past keeper MacDonald and United’s three
fullbacks White, Frankhouser and Dooley.
Rose, Sunnex and Janssen made the most of quick
breaks by United and were a constant threat to Thistle’s
defence. Thistle had good coordination between their backs
and halves and used this to their advantage when breaking up
attacks.
The second half started well for United with another
goal. Charlie Gorman fired a hard, low shot across the
mouth of the goal onto the foot of George Sunnex, whose
shot whacked off the upright and back to Kamira Haggie,
who placed the ball neatly into the roof of the net above the
keeper’s hands.
Huntly quickly retaliated when Frankhouser and
Dooley allowed John Melster between them to place a
United Win Cup
The Huntly Press, Wednesday 30th September, 1970
The Huntly Press, Wednesday 30th September, 1970
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copybook goal into the top left corner of the net well away
from the keeper.
Later, Tony Janssen was extremely quick onto the
ball in the penalty area and netted for United before the
defence could settle down. However, it was Provine Jeram
who brought Huntly back into the picture. Provine had been
probing at United’s goal unsuccessfully for over an hour
before being rewarded. He scored his hat-trick in a most
impressive manner, one of the shots passing between the legs
of the keeper! Both the other shots were in the top right and
the top left corners respectively.
This brought the end of the game and a win to
Huntly 4-3; but this was not enough to swing the goal average
in their favour, United winning by an average of four and a
half goals to three.
Following the game, Steve Baranyai presented the
challenge cup to Sandy MacDonald, secretary of the United
club. A film record of high spots of the game was made by
the United supporters and will be ready for viewing next
Wednesday.
Huntly: Healey, Ashton, Buck, Masson, Drayton,
Giles, McLuckie, Baranyai, Jeram, Melster, McNaught
(referee).
Ngaruawahia: Sandy MacDonald, Barry White,
Maurice Frankhauser, Kevin Dooley, Neil Gorman,
Stephen Barr, Kamira Haggie, George Sunnex, Alan
Rose, Tony Janssen, Charles Gorman, Alan Cotter
(reserve).
Ngaruawahia High School players in front of the original Centennial Park clubhouse.
Robert Hunt, Robin Bell, Alan Rose, Stephen Mark, Danny Duffull, Mark Snowden, Alan Cotter, Kerry Whare (obscured),
Neil Gorman, Stephen Barr.
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