After a 13-goal demolition of bottom team Bacchus Marsh, Ballarat coach LeRoy Hand is excited about how his division one women’s team is coming together.
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Ballarat’s Keryn Walters was one of the stand out performers in the Ballarat and District Soccer Association clash in Bacchus Marsh on Sunday, scoring six goals.
While it took about 15 minutes for Ballarat to warm into the game, once the team scored its first goal, the floodgates opened.
“Our sole focus wasn’t just going out hard early,” Hand said. “Not only did we want to win that game, we wanted to focus on our style of play to come up against some of the tough teams later on.
“Their shape and their position were really strong, then they just moved the ball really well between them and looked really sharp.”
But Hand also noted the “exceptional” efforts of Bacchus Marsh’s goal keeper.
“It was actually their striker,” he said. “She got injured last week and they wouldn’t have had the numbers to play if she didn’t play goal keeper, she saved over 20 goals and was brilliant.”
Hand said this week Ballarat would be focusing on areas from its game against the Ballarat Eureka Strikers a week earlier, with a lot more lessons from that match such as defensive shape.
Meanwhile, in men’s division one competition, Buninyong defeated Ballarat by four goals at Trekardo Park.
Buninyong’s Trent Moodley scored the first goal at the 17-minute mark against his former club, while Ben Hutchins also found the back of the net at the 31-minute mark to give the Redbacks the half-time lead.
Redbacks’ Edwin North scored just after the break, while captain Liam Haintz contributed the final goal at the 79-minute mark.