Report by Ben Somerford

Gwelup's Hasani Sinclair shields the ball from Tristan Colli. Photo by Annie Green

Ndumba Makeche scored one and set up two as Gwelup Croatia sent a warning around the NPL WA with a 3-0 win away to 10-man Sorrento on Saturday afternoon.

Sorrento were fresh off a 6-1 rout of Rockingham City, but newly-promoted Gwelup were excellent, led by brothers Daniel and Jon Stynes pulling the strings and Makeche.

Hasani Sinclair (14), Makeche (77) and Daniel Stynes (89) got the goals, although Gwelup came under pressure early in the second half until Sorrento’s Ollie Annis received his marching orders on 65 minutes.

Gwelup coach Taki Nicolaidis said: “The first 10 minutes of the second half they rolled the dice and came at us but full credit to our guys. I thought over the 90 minutes we were the better team.”

American Sinclair opened the scoring in the 14th minute after a neat back-heel from Makeche, capping off a move initiated by the impressive Shubham Mokala.

Minutes later, Gwelup keeper Connor Campbell made a fine double save from Cameron Teece, who scored four goals in Round One, and Annis’ rebound. At the other end Daniel Stynes fired wide on half-time.

Sorrento peppered Gwelup’s goal early in the second 45, mostly from range, with Campbell standing up well to efforts from Daniel Faichney and Teece.

Annis then received his second yellow for a tackle on Sinclair and Gwelup exploited the open spaces.

Gulls keeper Matt Giudicatti did well to deny Jon Stynes, but barely 30 seconds later Makeche found space on the left side of the box to make it 2-0.

Makeche was involved again, laying off for Daniel Stynes to slide home a third, before Graham Tough prevented further damage, blocking Blair Govan's late chance.

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Charlie Leech scored a first-half hat-trick as Perth Glory thumped Rockingham City 5-0.

First Leech finished off Bryce Bafford's neat turn and pass, then he tapped home after being set up by the same player. His third came when he collected a long pass and ran through to score.

Jack Painter-Andrews added a fourth early in the second half and Bafford completed the scoring with his second in as many weeks.

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Cockburn City came out on top of a cracking match with Bayswater City at Dalmatinac Park.

Bayswater raced into a two-goal lead in 12 minutes, Gomo Dukuly and Daryl Nicol seemingly putting the visitors on track for victory.

But Cockburn were having none of it and Ryan Pratt pulled one back on 27 minutes. Then in the space of two minutes just before half-time City were in front.

It started when Bayswater keeper Devon Lindemann was forced off injured. His replacement was Hayden Browne, whose first touch of the ball was to collect it from his net after he had been beaten by Kristian Santich's brilliant free-kick.

Browne's introduction then went from unfortunate to disastrous in under a minute. From the restart he played a loose pass straight to Santich and the former Perth SC midfielder, who had a penalty saved in last week's loss to ECU Joondalup, stuck the ball into the net for his second goal in 47 seconds.

Bayswater went all out for the equaliser in the second half but Cockburn kept them at bay and Anthony Skorich sealed a thrilling win three minutes into stoppage time following good work by David Araya.

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It was a case of deja-vu for Perth SC and Floreat Athena at Dorrien Gardens.

The two sides met back in March when only one round of the original season was played before it was aborted due to COVID.

That afternoon Floreat won 2-0 and they did the same today.

Jayden Gorman, a goalscorer for the Azzurri against Bayswater last week, had a game to forget this afternoon after the 17-year-old received his marching orders in the first half for two yellow cards.

Floreat took advantage following half-time. Phillip Arnold nodded in on 53 minutes after Perth struggled to deal with a typical Dean Evans free-kick, while Bala Noah Shamaki rolled his marker before smashing in Athena's second.

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Goals from Joshua Cortes and Angel Andres helped Armadale to a 2-1 win over Balcatta at Alfred Skeet Reserve.

Cortes struck on six minutes, stabbing home after Balcatta keeper Riley Stephenson failed to collect Charlie Kenna's cross.

Michael Zimarino worked himself enough space to equalise on 71 minutes. However, it was Armadale who went on to find the winner when Andres met Friday Zico's corner and headed in at the near post.

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Inglewood United remain unbeaten thanks to their 2-1 defeat of ECU Joondalup.

Adam Falcone sidefooted Inglewood ahead on nine minutes, while Ryan Lowry was allowed to run in unchallenged on a corner and score a rather soft equaliser right on half-time.

ECU suffered a setback when keeper Johnny Perkins was sent off after he came out of his box, missed the ball and took down Steve Sokol, who would have had an unguarded goal to run in to.

Striker Bayley Brown-Montgomery replaced Perkins between the sticks yet he then upended Sokol, this time in the area, and the Inglewood striker ensured he had the last laugh by converting the spot-kick.

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