Week 10 (20 June)
RESULT: Lose 1-2
SCORERS: Marshall Luke 1
In atrocious conditions where a water polo match would have been a better sport to be playing, the boys set out to maintain their lead on the top of the table but the opposition had other ideas. After a fairly even start one of the West Ryde Rovers (WRR) players got away and put a great ball from the back line over everyone’s head and into the goal to give them a 1 – 0 lead.
We responded well and after some fairly messy lead up work Marshall managed to get the ball past the defence and goal keeper and it literally trickled over the line to make it 1 – 1. A great long range shot from Zac that just missed the goals and 1 of Marshall runaway shots and our confidence was up but the score remained 1 – 1 at half time.
As the rain pelted down in the second half it became harder to move the ball around. A penalty to WRR in the box 10 minutes into the second half gave their goal keeper a chance to put them up which he did. Despite some late attacks by our forwards and midfielders we were unable to level the score and thus suffered our first loss of the season (better to get it out of the way now – I hope).
This week’s player of the match went to Ben for his determined effort in the midfield in tackling and delivering the ball through to the forwards.