Blockhouse Bay beaten, 3-2
PA Auckland Blockhouse Bay’s 11-year stay in the national soccer league ended at- its home ground at Whitney Street yesterday when it Was beaten, 3-2, by the 1980 league champion, Mount Wellington. Blockhouse Bay went into the game needing to beat Mount Wellington by three clear goals, but it was never really in the hunt, and. once the Mount went ahead in the
I eighth minute and increased ■ that margin to 2-0, ana then ■ 3-0, there was no hope for : the home side. . Mount Wellington showed some touches of class : againsf the 1970 Rothmans League winner but it lacked the drive up front of Brian i Turner to ever take com- ■ plete control. -Ironically, Clive Campbell, ■ a member of the Blockhouse i team of the early seventies : scored two of Mount WeL
lington’s goals and fired over the corner from which Bill de Graaf scored the other. Fittingly, the last kick of the game came from the boot of John Morris —. the long and faithful servant of Blockhouse Bay who was there as goalkeeper in its first match against Christchurch United in 1970 and still deservedly holding his place until the bitter end.
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