THE race for the Pascoe Cup minor premiership has tightened up again after Lake Albert relinquished top spot after being held to a 1-all draw by Tolland at Rawlings Park on Saturday.
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The Sharks began well when Ben Matthews headed home a James Trevaskis cross early in the match, but the Wolves found an equaliser when skipper Jayden Beattie's header found the mark off a corner in the second half.
The result means Hanwood (33 points) has overtaken defending champions Lake Albert (33) on goal difference after they hammered last-placed Cootamundra 11-0 on Sunday.
Henwood Park is just three points further back after Cameron Weir and Ned Evans scored braces in a 5-0 win over Tumut, while Leeton United solidified fifth spot with a 5-1 victory over South Wagga.
Lake Albert coach Mitch Tinnock said his side weren't clinical enough in attack and perhaps suffered a letdown after last week's dominant 4-0 win over the Hawks.
"We played pretty well in the first half, we just didn't take our chances enough, our last ball wasn't clinical enough," Tinnock said.
"Credit to Tolland, they played well, but we weren't fluent in our attack today.
"We want to get a top three spot tied up. We would have liked to finish first, but it's not the end of the world if we don't.
"Duncan Brodie and Ben Angel didn't play for us but there's no excuses, we still had a good enough team on the park.
"We got a bit scrappy in the second half, a bit of panic on that final ball in."
In the weekend's other game sixth-placed Young have some work to do to make the finals after playing out a scoreless draw with Wagga United.
PASCOE CUP - ROUND 15
HENWOOD PARK 5 (Cameron Weir 2, Ned Evans 2, Chris Oczkowski goals) def TUMUT 0; YOUNG 0 drew with WAGGA UNITED 0; LAKE ALBERT 1 (Ben Matthews) drew with TOLLAND 1 (Jayden Beattie); HANWOOD 11 (Michael Cimador 4, Joey Schirripa 3, Brad Clark, Michael Musitano, Nick Kennedy, Connor Sully) def COOTAMUNDRA 0; LEETON UNITED 5 (Adam Raso 2, Luke Mandaglio, Michael Di Lorenzo, Alex Dean) def SOUTH WAGGA 1 (Mahdi Rahini).
LEONARD CUP - ROUND 15
JUNEE 1 (Mae Harrison) def HENWOOD PARK 0; WAGGA UNITED 0 drew with COOTAMUNDRA 0; TOLLAND 8 (Lizzie Read 6, Bethany Ostini, Brianna Howes) def LEETON UNITED 3 (Georgia Salvestro 3)
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