La Salle won this important match against Aloysians to regain the top spot in the standings.

Stanisavljevic’s men have now failed to beat La Salle since 7 May.

The match started on a flowing and balanced pace with La Salle’s pivot Mark Gilson opened the score for La Salle and Malcolm Zarb responded immediately for Aloysians.

On the 20th minute, Gilson received his second “two minute suspension” and was replaced by Matthew Psaila.

During the first 30 minutes, both sets of players cancelled each other’s advantage. At the end of the first half, Aloysian’s Jan Wieczorek scored from the seven metre penalty line to make the score 10 each.

La Salle stared off the second half to a fast rhythm and scored two goals in two minutes. Ten minutes into the second half, Psaila’s men opened up a four-goal advantage.

La Salle looked stronger than their opponents. However, Aloysians responded and they slowly started to get back into the game.

Between the 46th and 50th minutes, Aloysians scored three goals in a row to make the score 18-17 in favour of La Salle.

The latter responded through Gilson and two important goals by the clinical James Farrugia.

During the last 10 minutes of the match, La Salle kept their cool and scored some good goals following some good tactical play to finish off the match with a five-goal lead.

Final Score: La Salle ZT Developments-Aloysians 24-19

Man of the Match : Andrew Said (La Salle)