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After a thrilling final match between
Victoria
and New South Wales women’s teams, it was over to their
male counterparts to be on centre court for the men’s
final match. Victoria had the throw-off but its first
attempt at goal was not successful. Defence of both
teams was tight from the start. It was two minutes into
the game that Kenneth Toerlan [NSW] scored the first
goal of the match, from a penalty shot. Then after two
minutes Mladen Turanjanin equalised for Victoria. This
was immediately replied by Kenneth with two successive
goals from fastbreaks. Another two minutes into the
game, Rajan Pavlovic’s strong shot from the back added
one goal for Victoria.
Fabian Synneby scored one back for NSW, followed by two
goals by team mate Sebastian Traverso. Victoria had
great help from its Goalkeeper, Robert Comme who has
played handball for only three weeks before the
tournament. Robert performed two brilliant saves from
the shooting of Christoph Neibel. Then it was Victoria’s
turn to score three successive goals made by Nick
Kodrick, Vella Vujaklija and Rajan Pavlovic.
For the remainder of the first half, both teams took
turns in furthering their score balance, using
combination of strong defence of 6-0 and fastbreaks.
Near the end of the first half, Vella Vujaklija scored
one goal to reduce Victoria’s deficit by one goal and
just before the buzzer, Victoria was awarded a penalty
shot. Mladen Turanjanin shot low around the NSW wall to
bring the first half at a draw.
Half time score: Victoria 13 – New South Wales 13.
The second half started off with a brilliant save by an
attempt at goal by Vella Vujaklija by NSW Goalkeeper
Pascal Winkler. This was immediately followed by a goal
for NSW by Kenneth Toerlan. Two successive goals from
the back by Rajan Pavlovic and Vella Vujaklija got
Victoria
back in the game. Fabian Synneby took one back for
NSW. For the remainder of second half, strong shooting
from the back by Vella Vujaklija and Rajan Pavlovic was
consistently doing damage to NSW. At 18.58 to the
finish of the match,
Victoria
was leading by three goals; score was Victoria 20 – NSW
17.
Sebastian Traverso started NSW’s campaign to get back in
the game. His goal was first of the six goals
successively scored by NSW [Sebastian, Luka Kranj,
Kenneth Toerlan, Luka, Kenneth]. The last goal by
Kenneth was from a seven-metre throw. Pascal Winkler
had a couple of brilliant saves in this set. Score at
this stage was Victoria 20 – NSW 23.
From this point, it was goal for goal from both teams.
NSW deployed
3-2-1 defence part of the time, with
Victoria doing likewise. Vella Vujaklija shots from the
back added three goals for Victoria. His team mates
Joseph So and Ante Manenica contributing one each.
Mladen Turanjanin missed a penalty throw but was
successful at 4.27 left of the game. Another fastbreak
converted to goal by Kenneth Toerlan and determined play
by Felipe Narciso also added three more goals to NSW.
The second half closed with a successful penalty throw
by Mladen Turanjanin of Victoria.
Full Time Score: Victoria 28 – New South Wales 32
Victoria: Vella Vukjaklia [11]; Mladen Turanjanin [7
(5)]; Rajan Pavlovic [5]; Joseph So [2]; Ante Manenica
[2]; Nick Kodrick [1]
Coach: Georgie McMenzie
NSW: Kenneth Toerlan [11 (3)]; Sebastian Traverso
[6]; Fabian Synneby [5]; Luka Kranj [4]; Felipe Narciso
[3]; Christoph Neibel [2]
Coach: Russell Garnett |
