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By halftime at Gisborne on Sunday, Massey led 3-2, which completed the scoring. The students’ goals came through Cole Freeman, Zac Farmer and Michael Hilson. Coach Donald Piper said returning from Gisborne with three points was impressive. “We didn’t win it statistically in terms of chances created but we scored the goals.”. Five Massey players are in the leading group of the Golden Boot contenders: Rhys Galyer, Farmer, George Andrew and Cole and Joe Freeman. At Havelock North, Marist coach Juliano Schmeling said “individual mistakes” cost his side the game as Marist strugg...

Schmeling was happy enough with Marist’s three-goal win at Levin last weekend. Even though they dominated enough for more goals to have been possible, they at least kept a clean sheet, he said. This weekend, Marist will be missing the injured Jaeden Shaw and Jamie Lambe, but Josh Cremen should be back from injury. In an interesting development, the club has signed Whanganui veteran Anthony Bell, who will likely start off the bench against Thistle. An attacking forward-cum-winger, Bell will give Marist “another good option”, Schmeling said. Bell will be especially remembered locall...

Palmerston North Marist will be pleased to have Josh Cremen and Luke Palfreyman back from injury, although they will be missing dangerous winger Jordan Joblin-Hall, out with a work-related issue. But coach Juliano Schmeling says he will still have 16 players from whom to pick his run-on side for a game he is predicting will be a tough encounter. He said it was disappointing to concede a goal at Napier from a corner. “That’s something we need to fix. We have to be prepared to win those 50-50 balls.” Schmeling said the team that made the fewest mistakes would win the game, so they ne...