It was all smiles for the New Caledonian girls on Saturday afternoon at the Sir Hubert Murray Stadium as they cruised past Koloale Women’s FC following a 1-nil deficit to come out victors of the inaugural Women’s Oceania Football Confederation Championships.
Both teams looked very dangerous in the first half; however, it was Koloale that took the lead through Captain, Ileen Pegi following a beautiful through ball by Melissa Marei to open the scoring.
Just when her team needed her, goal scoring machine, Christelle Whanawe levelled the scores. Finding the back of the net with a half-volley from an Alice Wenessia special, going into the break with the scores all locked up.
Coming out of the sheds, Feminine went ahead in the 55th minute through the head of Wenessia who scored of a free-kick by Jackie Pahoa.
Meanwhile, there seemed to be quite some concern for Koloale Goal Keeper, Sylvester Maenu’u as she looked to be carting a niggling chest injury from the previous to matches.
Feminine kept up the hurt as Lousie Luepak scored the third and finally to put the game to bed, a costly mistake from Maenu’u saw Wennesia get a double, cementing her player of the match performance but also the Feminine comeback.