Joel Porter

Lake Oswego High School chess team members are state champions. The team won first overall in Cottage Grove in competition last Friday and Saturday. The team also won first place for Varsity High School Chess Team Class 6A, Board One Varsity State Champion, and Board Three Varsity State Champion.  

MISSED penalties from Zenon Caravella and Kristian Rees have seen Gold Coast United's debut A-League season end in a heart-breaking penalty shoot-out 6-5 to Newcastle tonight. The lure of sudden-death football cut little ice with locals with the game attracting a pitiful crowd of 4109, easily the worst ever A-League finals crowd after the 8472 who turned up to watch the Adelaide-Brisbane preliminary final at Hindmarsh Stadium a year ago. And the hollow atmosphere appeared to breed a sense of early apa  

NEWCASTLE might head into Saturday night's do-or-die semi-final clash carrying the wood over United but key forward Joel Porter reckons it means little.  

Gold Coast United have missed their chance to finish in the top two on the A-League ladder after being defeated by the North Queensland Fury 2-1 at Dairy Farmers Stadium on Saturday night.  

Perth Glory will head into their first A-League play-off campaign in confident mood after ending the season with a 2-0 win over Brisbane Roar at ME Bank Stadium. Scott Neville scored his first league goal after nine minutes when goalkeeper Matthew Ham misjudged Todd Howarth's cross and the defender was presented with a simple finish. Daniel McBreen had a goal chalked off for offside in the second half before Scott Bulloch made the points safe in the 73rd minute when he beat Ham with an emphatic finish  

Gold Coast United have missed their chance to finish in the top two on the ladder after falling to a 2-1 loss to North Queensland Fury 2-1 at Dairy Farmers Stadium. A home crowd of 8517 cheered on as Fury won their last game of the season with goals from David Williams and Terry Cooke. Gold Coast equalised early in the second half through Joel Porter but couldn't find that an elusive second.  

"You get arguments in the changeroom from time to time but everything is good with me. I'm just looking forward to getting the job done against the Fury. "We know we need to win and I'm sure we'll accomplish that." The rancorous aftermath of United's loss to Wellington refuses to subside with Shane Smeltz last night fined $4000 for lambasting Breeze over his handling of the Wellington match. The New Zealand international was slapped with a Code of Conduct violation after claiming Breeze 'didn't have

didn't have a good match   -Clive Mensink