September 11, 2013
The Fleming’s Garage Panthers came back to earth in the Grand Final of the Cadets division of the South Burnett Junior Soccer competition played in Kingaroy on Saturday.
After a mighty effort to knock out minor premiers Total Building Solutions Queensland Bears in a penalty shootout to get into the Grand Final, Nanango was hoping to go one better and pull off the near impossible … to go from fourth spot on the table to take home the trophy.
But the South Burnett Car Sales & Window Tinting Redbacks had other ideas, dominating possession and outpacing the Nanango defenders.
The Nanango strikers were starved of shooting opportunities while Kingaroy peppered the Panther’s goalmouth.
The final score was 4-0 but could have been more with at least two Kingaroy shots going wide in the second half in front of an open net.
In the U12/13s Grand Final, two Redbacks sides armwrestled with neither dominating.
With the scores locked at 1-all at full-time, ten minutes of extra time was played which allowed the KingAir Redbacks to change gears and score twice, defeating the Struddy’s Sports Store Redbacks 3-1.
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Full Results
Cadets
- Grand Final Winners – South Burnett Car Sales & Window Tinting Redbacks
- Grand Final Runners Up – Flemings Garage Panthers
- Player of the Cadets Final – Raegan Campbell (Flemings Garage Panthers)
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- Cadet Cup – The Lucky Charm Newsagency Redbacks
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U12/13s
- Grand Final Winners – KingAir Redbacks
- Grand Final Runners Up – Struddy’s Sports Store Redbacks
- Player of the U12/13s Final – Du Pham (Struddy’s Sport Store Redbacks)
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- Consolation Final Winners – Kingaroy Accounting & Tax Redbacks
- Consolation Final Runner Up – Sellwood Construction Bears
- Player of the Consolation Final – Nick Schmidhauser (Sellwood Construction Bears)
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- U12/13 Cup – Hair Elegance Redbacks