It was a big weekend in Nimbin for soccer, since most Nimbin Headers teams had home games.

Results were:

Women’s div 3 A DRAW 0-0 with Lismore Thistles.

Men’s div 5 LOST 0-4 vs Goonellabah

Men’s 35+ LOST 0-2 vs Ballina in the only away game at Ballina

Boys 15yo’s WON 5-2 v South Lismore. In this game Elijah Gentle scored a hattrick of 3 goals. He also got a hattrick last week.

Boys 14 A DRAW with Lismore Rovers, B’s 13 LOST 0-4 v Lismore Thistles, B’s 12 WON 4-1 v Alstonville and B’s 11 WON 3-2 v Italo Stars. In this game Quinlan Cox had, quote “more moves than John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever”.

Next week all soccer teams will have ‘away’ matches. The 26th May will be the next time all teams play at home.

Nimbin Demons Aussie Rules team LOST to Casino @ Casino. Scores were Casino 20 goals 14 behinds (134) defeated Nimbin 8 9 (57).

Nimbin got a thrashing. This was a hard fought physical game, where Casino outmuscled Nimbin in the big man department. Nimbin played into this by kicking the ball high instead of keeping it low. Casino also played the tricky winds at their home ground to perfection.

Both teams had promising young players who were among their best players. Best players for Nimbin were: Will Alexander (3 votes), Zen Novak (2), & Billy Walker (1). Goal kickers were: Billy Walker 2, Zen Novak 2, Will Alexander, Roydon Butler, Joe Walker & Frank Summerville each got 1. Injuries were: James Alexander, fractured ankle, out for rest of season, Doug Blackburn, ribs, out for a few weeks.

This week’s defeat leaves Nimbin at the bottom of the table.

Next week Nimbin is playing at home. (There will not be the advertised football carnival of teams at Oakes Oval in Lismore due to it being double booked.) Nimbin plays Byron.