Player-coach Josh Rose praised the work of striker Kristian Brymora and a cameo from teenager Damon Green as Edgeworth moved one win away from a record premiership with a 3-1 victory over Newcastle Olympic on Sunday.
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Brymora scored with a strike into the top corner from the edge of the penalty box in the 82nd minute to put the Eagles up 2-1 in the NNSW NPL game at Darling Street Oval.
Substitute Green, in just his second top-grade appearance, chested the ball on for Brymora to score before ensuring the round 11 win for Edgeworth in the 86th minute. Brymora's shot was blocked only for Green, the nephew of former US PGA Tour golfer Nathan Green, to smash home the rebound.
Dylan Holz put the Eagles ahead in the 22nd minute with a header off a Rose cross, but Olympic pushed hard for an equaliser. The hosts twice hit the post before Jared Muller scored in the 46th minute with a header off Dino Fajkovic's delivery.
Edgeworth moved to 30 points, still five up on Broadmeadow with two games each to play. The Eagles can take a 13th top-division premiership with a win over Maitland next week. Olympic remain third on 17.
"We haven't spoke about it too much but it's in our hands now and we can go get the job done next week," Rose said.
Brymora was a regular threat for the Eagles, who lost Pat Wheeler (illness) after an hour and Jose Atayde (foot) during the week from midfield.
"With a thin, shorter pitch, we tried to play over the top for him and I just wanted him to change it up and be more of an old school striker and just hold a bit up for us," Rose said. "I thought it really brought him into the game, and everyone else, and I'm just happy he got a fantastic goal in the end and he was also a big part of Damon's goal.
"We needed all hands on deck, then you get a diamond in the rough in Damon Green step up and make a name for himself."
Also Sunday, Maitland beat a 10-man Adamstown 6-0 to jump from seventh to fourth spot on 16 points.
The defending premiers led in the eighth minute when Ryan Clarke scored into an open goal after Rosebud failed to clear.
Adamstown skipper Luke Rutledge copped a second yellow card in the 18th minute for a foul and the Magpies capitalised with a hat-trick to Braedyn Crowley (57th, 67th and 84th minutes) and goals from James Thompson (24th) and Joel Wood (77th). Crowley now leads the league's top-scorer title on 10, one ahead of Brymora.
On Saturday, Broadmeadow scored twice late - including the winner from Ryan Ensor in the fifth minute of stoppage time - to beat Lake Macquarie 3-2 away. At Weston, Lambton Jaffas and the Bears drew 1-1 to drop to fifth and sixth respectively on 15 points.
At Macquarie Field, James Virgili equalised with a strike from an acute angle in the 83rd minute before the Roosters were down to 10 men four minutes later when Iman Akram was given a second yellow.
Fill-in centre-back Ensor was the unlikely hero for Magic deep in injury time with the winning strike.
Mitch Rooke had put Broadmeadow ahead with a powerful left-foot shot in the 28th minute off a Virgili cross. Lakes hit back with a header from Campbell Ross (49th minute) and strike from Chris Berlin (67th), both off lead-up work from Cameron Tapp.
At Weston Park, Kale Bradbery scored for Jaffas off a run and cut-back from Anthony Wood in the 65th minute.
Weston scored in the 73rd through Aaron Niyonkuru, whose header was parried onto the post before he knocked in the rebound.
Jaffas are in fifth place ahead of Weston on goals, but Charlestown Azzurri are only a point behind them with a game in hand on both teams in the top-five finals battle.
Azzurri and Valentine (11 points) had the bye.