{"id":364292,"date":"2025-09-05T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=364292"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:55:46","slug":"bears-earn-grand-final-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/09\/05\/bears-earn-grand-final-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears Earn Grand Final Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>September 5, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After dominating all season, the Nanango Panthers were knocked out of the 2025 South Burnett Women&#8217;s Soccer competition with a shock semi-final loss last Friday night at Wondai.<\/p>\n<p>Playing on their home ground, the Barambah Bears downed Nanango 1-0 to earn a chance at gaining back-to-back championships.<\/p>\n<p>The second berth in the Grand Final was always going to feature a Kingaroy team, with Kingaroy Wests Women taking on Kingaroy Easts Women in the semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Wests came out on top 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Final in the Women&#8217;s Competition between Barambah and Kingaroy Wests will be played from 6:15pm on Friday night (September 5) at Tom Alford Oval in Kingaroy.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Round 1 of the finals will be played this Saturday in the South Burnett Junior competition at the Kingaroy Junior Soccer Fields:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8:30am &#8211; Under 12\/13s &#8211; Nanango Panthers Blue v Barambah Connollys State Waste Bears (winner to the Grand Final)<\/li>\n<li>10:00am &#8211; Under 12\/13s &#8211; Nanango Panthers White v Kingaroy McDonalds (winner to the Grand Final)<\/li>\n<li>11:30am &#8211; Cadets &#8211; Barambah Raffin Electrical Bears v Kingaroy Refrigeration (winner to the Grand Final)<\/li>\n<li>12:01pm &#8211; Cadets &#8211; Kingaroy CTC Mechanical v loser of the previous game (winner to the Grand Final)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Grand Finals in both U12\/13s and Cadets will be played on September 13 at Kingaroy.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>Last Week\u2019s Results<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>South Burnett Women\u2019s Competition \u2013 Semi-Finals at Wondai Sportsground<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barambah Bears def. Nanango Panthers 1-0<\/li>\n<li>Kingaroy Wests def. Kingaroy Easts 1-0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At the Kingaroy Junior Soccer Fields:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U12\/13s \u2013 Barambah Connollys State Waste Bears def. Kingaroy McDonalds 2-0<\/li>\n<li>U12\/13s \u2013 Nanango Panthers White def. Nanango Panthers Blue 8-3<\/li>\n<li>Cadets \u2013 Kingaroy CTC Mechanical drew with Barambah Raffin Electrical Bears 2-all<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dominating all season, the Nanango Panthers were knocked out of the 2025 South Burnett Women&#8217;s Soccer competition with a shock semi-final loss last Friday night at Wondai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":316770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,3,68,6],"tags":[1138],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bears Earn Grand Final Spot - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After dominating all season, the Nanango Panthers were knocked out of the 2025 South Burnett Women&#039;s Soccer competition with a shock semi-final loss last Friday night at Wondai.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/09\/05\/bears-earn-grand-final-spot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bears Earn Grand Final Spot - 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