Kingborough’s dream season continued with another last-gasp win over Devonport.
Three weeks after a last-second equaliser led to penalty shootout victory over Strikers in the Lakoseljac Cup final, Jon Fenech’s in-form Lions again rode late drama to claim the points in McDonald's NPL Tasmania.
Leading through Noah Mies’ early opener, second-placed Kingborough looked to have been denied by Josh Tollervey’s 88th-minute headed equaliser.
But four minutes into stoppage time Joel Badger struck to maintain a four-point gap to defending champions South Hobart.
Nick Morton farewelled the ladder leaders with his 20th goal of the season in a 6-1 defeat of Glenorchy.
The captain joined South Hobart as an 11-year-old and leaves to join Northcote City in Melbourne 19 years later as the club’s all-time leading goalscorer and a three-time Tasmanian player of the year.
Austin Yost, Dawit Son, Kobe Kemp, Rex Maddock and a Jacob Clothier own goal completed South’s scoring while Tom Walpole claimed Knights’ late consolation.
Max Reissig pounced on a defensive mistake to score the only goal of the game as Launceston City racked up a third straight win, 1-0 against South East United.
Riverside continued their best ever NPL season with a sixth win, 6-0 against bottom side Ulverstone.
Doubles for Matias Rodriguez and Arpan Rai, a James Pelletier penalty and sub Aser Hailu’s first goal for the club did the damage.
For the second week running Launceston United picked up points and Will Spicer was on the scoresheet to keep alive the club’s survival hopes. The captain popped up with a late header to secure a 1-1 draw at Clarence after Moses Khasif had put Zebras ahead.
A stoppage-time winner from substitute Nina Daniels saw South Hobart win the McDonald's Women's Super League match of the round 2-1 against Kingborough.
The third-versus-fourth encounter had been a tale of two free-kicks as Dani Kannegiesser’s long-range opener was cancelled out by Lions captain Hannah Walsh before Daniels decided the outcome from the edge of the box.
Devonport’s perfect title defence continued with a 12th straight win as they saw off Launceston City 5-0.
Jaz White’s double took her to 32 for the season with Whitney Knight, Grace Sims and EJ Sullivan completing the scoring while another excellent save from Michaela Mitchell ensured Strikers’ sixth consecutive clean sheet having not conceded a goal in more than 600 minutes of play.
First-half strikes from Emma Christie and Eve Swan saw Glenorchy stay second with a 2-0 win at Taroona.
Brazilian striker Olivia De Moraes cemented her return to Launceston United with a hat-trick in a 6-0 win at Riverside.
De Moraes took her goal tally to 22 in all competitions as Liz Fogarty, Nina Roy and Dani Gunton completed the rout.