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January 26, 2003 Australia defeats South Korea in the first round of the 2003 Australia Cup in match abandoned at 77th. minute 5th. Australia Cup Sunday, January 26, 2003 Belconnen Soccer Centre, Canberra Australia 2 South Korea 0 Scoring Australia Golebiowski 10 Australia Golebiowski 76 Australia Nichols, Claire Wainwright, Sacha Davies, Rhian Slatyer, Thea Garriock, Heather Karp, Tal (Duus, Bryony, 65) Hohnke, Olivia (Salisbury, Cheryl, 46) Peters, Joanne Small, Danielle (Foster, Gill, 46) Golebiowski, Kelly Mann, April (Crawford, Hayley 71) Game Ex-W-League Pirhana player Golebiowski, who recently signed to WUSA¹s Washington Freedom,scored two superb goals in this match to give the Matildas the win. The game was abandoned by the referee with thirteen minutes left in regular time because of an incident involving a Korean official and the assistant referee. The result stands, a 2-0 victory to Australia. The committee is now awaiting the referee's report before deciding the next course of action. The first goal came when Golebiowski ran on to a pass from Small and dribbled past the keeper. The rest of the game had both teams evenly matched until in the 76th. minute a Korean free kick bounced out off the Australian defensive wall. The ball found its way to Golebiowski who seeing the keeper off her line chipped it over her head from the right corner of the 18-yard box. Celebrations were cut short immediately after when referee Tammy Ogston stopped the match with about 13 minutes of normal time remaining after the incident. Newcastle striker Hayley Crawford made her international debut, coming into the game in the 71st minute, whilst it was the first occasion on which Wainwright captained Australia as Salisbury started the game on the bench. Post game quote National/AIS Coach Adrian Santrac, who praised the performance of scorer Golebiowski, describing her as an outstanding talent with enormous potential. Overall our first game of the tournament was a very positive start and puts us in a good position to walk into the second game (against Mexico) with a lot of confidence. Our first twelve minutes, we were dynamic, and the movement that made the first goal was absolutely outstanding. The team lost touch with each other for the remainder of the first half, and play then also petered out in the second half.