Passing time: Cobram’s Jack Dovey distributes the ball. Photos: Christine Osborne
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Cobram has moved to the top of the Albury Wodonga Football Association Men’s Division One ladder with the side producing an impressive 5-1 victory on Sunday afternoon.
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After having two weeks off, a refreshed Roar outfit travelled to Melrose Park to take on Melrose FC in an important game for both sides.
The Roar opened the scoring through a Jack Smith header in the first minute, before Spiros Vourgaslis scored the first of his hat-trick in the 33rd.
Hat-trick hero: Spiros Vourgaslis scored three goals on Sunday.
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Vourgaslis scored his second in the 64th, before Tom Corso joined the scorers’ list four minutes later and Vourgaslis completed his hat-trick in the 91st.
Roar coach Vince Iannucci said it felt good to get the win after two weeks of hard work on the training track.
“We had a couple of byes in a row which probably was a good thing for us, it sort of gave us a bit of a reset,” Iannucci said.
Under pressure: Cobram’s Bill Puckett looks to beat his man.
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“We scored our first goal in the first 30 seconds so it was better than the last time we played them because we beat them 1-0 in the 90th minute.
“We made a bit of a positional change and a formation change and it worked really well so it will be interesting to see how the rest of the season comes along.”
Iannucci outlined that Sunday’s game would be the last for Jack Dovey, with Dovey heading back to England, while the Cobram mentor was impressed with Spiros Vourgaslis’ first full 90 minutes of the season.
The Roar will return to Cobram on Sunday afternoon, with a 3pm kick-off against the Albury Hotspurs pencilled in.
A full day of action is on the agenda, with the ladder-leading men’s and women’s sides both set to play and the club’s canteen set to be in full swing.
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