A first half hat-trick from Eliane Fader has guided South Hobart to a convincing 5-0 win over University in wet conditions at Darcy Street. Fader struck the opening three goals of the game, capping her treble just before the half time break before Swain and Moutsatsos added second half goals to complete the comfortable win.
It took around 30 minutes for South to eventually break through the University defence, but when they did it seemed to open the floodgates as Fader found the net three times in just fifteen minutes.
Fader's first was probably her best as she met the ball at the top of the box with a thumping strike from just outside the area that flew in top corner after Moutsatsos had worked it to her in space.
Two minutes later, a failure to clear the defensive lines from the Bees was there undoing, leaving Fader with a fairly straight forward, albeit nicely executed volley from close range to double the lead.
Then on the stroke of half time, Fader raced onto a deflected shot and instinctively picked out the far corner of the net. It was clinical striking and a hat-trick of top quality from the young attacker.
She then turned provider early in the second half as she brought it down for Swain to sweep home and kill off any hope of a second half revival from the visitors.
Nikki Moutsatsos would round out the scoring for the day with her long range lob of Steele to see the game finish a comfortable 5-0 that puts South firmly back in the picture for a third place finish.
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