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trying to fracture the posts and crossbar with wicked volleys,
with Mike Liddle and Jason Cargo giving similar brief
displays! Ken Murray showed skill and initiative as an
attacking fullback with Jeff Tozer working solidly behind the
attack. Malcolm Burt had a shaky debut into Northern league
soccer but should firm up with time.
With the many fine drives at goal from United, it was
disappointing that the three that went in were basically from
defensive errors where­in the ball was practically walked in. If
one wished to count timberwork shots as legal (and which
attacking team wouldn’t!) a rugby score may have eventuated.
With the long trip now behind them, United move
over to Tauranga this Saturday for their second match in the
league.
The Huntly Press
Wednesday 12th April 1978
7th Grade net 12 Goals
The Ngaruawahia United 7th grade team,
affectionately known as Charlie’s Angels, coached by Charlie
Gorman senior, set the beginning of the soccer season with an
even dozen goals against Hillcrest “C’ on Saturday.
David Tilston top-scored with five, Robert McLean
three and James McCaig two. The other two goals were not
credited to any individual. Keeper Sophie Gorman touched
the ball once in the match.
Other Ngaruawahia United Soccer results for the
weekend: 9th grade 1, Nawton 1; 11th grade 0, Claudelands
Rovers; 13th grade “A” 2, St Andrews “A” 2; 13th grade “B”
2, Fairfield “D” 2; 3rd Division 2, Tokanui 0; 1st division 1,
Tokoroa 1; ladies “A” 3, Te Kuiti 1; ladies “B” 1, Wanderers
2; Northern League 2, Tauranga 4; 3rd form schoolboys
won by default from Cambridge.
The Huntly Press
Wednesday 19th April 1978
Affco United Soccer
Fifty-three goals were netted in the games played by
the teams of the Ngaruawahia Soccer Club on Saturday. With
ten teams competing, the only one to seem the “odd one out”
was the first division who went down 1-4 to Hillcrest – odd
because theirs was the only result that did not involve a zero in
the score-line.
The 11th and the 7th grades had large wins 10-0 and
12-0 respectively with the biggest loss being credited to the
Ladies “B” team who went down 10-0.
The 3rd division squad, after their 11-1 tournament
win the previous week, gave a lack-lustre display in their 0-0
encounter with Unicol. Unicol should have won with striker
Alan Stimpson striking the post with a shot late in the match
and, following up the ball, hit the other upright!
Results: 13th A grade beat Hillcrest A 3-0; 13th B
grade took Hillcrest D 1-0; 11th grade defeated Aber­deen 10-
0; 9th grade won over Knighton B 3-0; 7th grade swamped
Knighton 12-0; High School lost 0-3 to Huntly in division 4B;
Ladies took Unicol 6-0; Ladies B lost to Hamilton 0-10; 3rd
division drew 0-0 with Unicol; 1st division lost to Hillcrest 1-
4. Northern League had no game.
The Huntly Press
Wednesday 26th April 1978
Hill and Duffull Engineer Win
The mid-field play and distribution of Ricky Duffull
and Rodney Hill in Ngaruawahia United’s 3rd division soccer
team was a major factor in United’s 4-1 win over Marist.
Veteran, Staf Magee, began and ended the scoring
with Bruce McIntosh and Trevor McLaughlin providing the
“filling”. Marist netted from a Joey Wright induced penalty.
Staf Magee was recognised as the player of the day.
1978
Ngaruawahia Junior Soccer
With 22 goals from two matches and none against the
Ngaruawahia 7th grade applied to be regraded in­to the 9th
grade and made their debut with a 5-0 win in the last of that
grades grading matches.
“Charlies Angels” as the team is affectionately
known went through the 1977 season undefeated and looked
like doing the same this year. However by moving up a grade
and playing teams of an aver­age of 2-years older than
themselves, they hope to get some keener competition.
Junior results:- 13th grade A: Bye; B: 5 v. Southwell
0; 11th grade: 0 v. Aberdeen 0; 9th grade A: 4 v. Hukanui A 0;
B: 5 v. Hukanui B 0.
Ngaruawahia senior soccer results:- Northern League
3, Fra­ser 2; 1st division 2, Fra­ser 0; 3rd division 4, Marist 1;
Ladies A 1, Claudelands Rovers 1; Ladies B 0, Te Kuiti 6.
Duffull Seals Game
On Ngaruawahia’s new no. 2 pitch the home team’s
1st division soccer squad met Fraser’s 1st division in the
curtain-raiser to the Northern League game on no. 1 pitch.
The newly constructed pitch has much still to be done on it to
iron out the irregularities in surface levels.
Ian (Noot) Innes, the United keeper, set up the first
United goal by driving a long clearance upfield toward Tony
Armstrong. Halftime, 1-0.
Late in the match Danny Duffull was fed the ball
out on the left wing and his acutely angled shot found the far
netting for United’s 2-0 win.
Last-minute win for Ngaruawahia-AFFCo
The encounter between Fraser and United on
Saturday at Ngaruawahia was played on a firm but greasy
surface. Neither team could gain an initial ad­vantage in the
first 45 minutes with each defence being equal to what was
thrown at them.
In the 57th minute of the match John Brown was
substituted on for Mike Heapphy. In the 60th min­ute Brown
set up Mike Liddle for the equaliser after working the ball to
the near post and cutting it back for Liddle to slam into the
bottom left corn­er
Not to be denied their initial advantage, Fraser came
straight back and within 60 seconds had gone to the front
again with a superb goal from Steve Gill, 2-1.
With the game having only 25 minutes to run, United
could make no impression on Fraser and for 20 minutes it
looked as though United would go down. The same expression
was uttered by the Radio Waikato reporter covering the game.
The nearest United came was when Mike Liddle watched
his second break-through again denied him with an alert save
from Longman.
Then, in the last five minutes, Fraser saw the game
taken from them. Steve Williams set John Brown up for the
equaliser in the 85th minute and Brown put Jeff McLaughlan
through in the 88th minute for 3-2 win to United and a
valuable two points.
This win keeps United near the top of the table with
four points out of a possible six. This Saturday United meets
Tokoroa away in the second preliminary round of the Adidas
Challenge Cup and coach, Dave Hall, is confident of a good
display.
The Huntly Press
Wednesday 3rd May 1978
Thistle Ladies Score Good Win in
Soccer
At Ngaruawahia last Sunday the Huntly Thistle ladies
soccer team out played the United “B” team by 4 goals to nil
in the forth round of the Pandora Cup. The game played in
ideal conditions and before a good crowd, was as the score
suggested, a one sided affair.
After ten minutes the Thistle striker Marteene Hinton
opened the scoring when she received a through ball from the
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