by Ben Gilby (22/6/25)
Above: Football West Academy goalkeeper Daisy McGreadie Cole (seen in a previous game) produced a superb display in her side’s penalty shoot-out win over holders Perth SC. Photo: Rob Lizzi.
Balcatta Etna v Hamersley Rovers
Balcatta Etna automatically qualified for the semi-finals with a walkover victory in Thursday’s scheduled opening tie of the last eight over Women’s Division One side Hamersley Rovers.
Football West Academy 1-1 Perth SC
Football West Academy win 3-1 on penalties
The Football West Academy (FWA) clinched a penalty shoot-out success after a highly dramatic ending to the game at the Sam Kerr Football Centre on Friday night.
Holders Perth SC looked to be heading into the last four thanks to Ella Lincoln’s goal seven minutes into the second half. However, things changed as the game reached its conclusion
First, with 81 on the clock, Ruby Marshall received a second yellow card, and then, two minutes into stoppage time, up popped Theodora Mouithys to score an equaliser.
The penalty shoot-out that followed saw FWA goalkeeper Daisy McGreadie-Cole make a superb personal intervention to ensure that only Tijan McKenna was successful for the Azzurri from the spot. Mouithys, Xuri Dalton, and Lacey Heys converted their penalties to clinch a superb 3-1 shoot-out win for the teenage side.
Fremantle City 5-4 Subiaco
Fremantle City held off a second-half comeback bid by Subiaco to run out winners by the odd goal in nine this afternoon.
The port city side hit the front just after the quarter hour mark thanks to a strike from Leyna Wood, only for Marianna Tabain to level matters for Subi with 28 minutes played.
Fremantle took hold of the game with a spell of three goals between the 43rd and 51st minutes. Wood grabbed her second to ensure her side went in ahead at the break before two goals in four minutes from Sophie Meaden and Mikayla Lyons put the home side 4-1 ahead.
However, Subiaco showed their character with as goals from So-yi Kim and Tabain brought them back to within a single goal with only 13 minutes remaining.
Yet, back came Freo, with Abbey Green finally putting the game out of Subi’s reach on 83 minutes. However, the visitors made for a nervous period of stoppage time when Stella Zampogna reduced the deficit to a single goal once more in the 90th minute, but Fremantle held on.
Murdoch University Melville 0-5 Perth RedStar
Perth RedStar repeated the scoreline they achieved against the same opponents at the same venue in the league last weekend to make the semi-finals this afternoon.
However, whilst they had built a 4-0 half-time lead in the NPLW WA game against Murdoch University Melville last week, this time all five goals came in the second half.
All three of their goal scorers were on target at Besteam Stadium for the second week in a row as Caitlin Doeglas hit a hat-trick with Renee Leota and Sarah Carroll also on target once more.
Leota put the visitors ahead five minutes after the break before Doeglas doubled the lead just after the horn mark.
Three further goals followed in the final 14 minutes with Carroll extending the RedStar lead further before Doeglas completed her hat trick with two in the final six minutes of regular time.
Doeglas now has six goals in her last four games, with Leota on a run of four in as many games. On top of these impressive statistics, RedStar have now won their last eight games in a row.
Fixtures
NPLW WA: Saturday: Football West Academy v UWA-Nedlands, Perth SC v Perth RedStar. Sunday: Balcatta Etna v Subiaco, Fremantle City v Murdoch University Melville.
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