London League Under 15 (Mixed) Championship.

Tournament 3.

Whitgift School, South Croydon.

Sunday 21st June 2009.

We travelled to the third event of this summers championship having played really well at the last event when our young team had begun to show a great deal of improvement.

We were due to play 3 matches at this tournament but the late withdrawal of West London Penguin meant that we had to play 2 longer games against Sevenoaks and Watford.

These are the individual reports; -

Match 1.

Worthing 14, Sevenoaks 0. (H/T 8-0)

This was a fine performance against a young but spirited opposition who always made things difficult for us.

The Worthing youngsters once again showed that they are beginning to progress both individually and collectively and it was pleasing to see that the passing and game awareness are now of a much higher standard.

The team defended well and the opposition only created a small number of chances.

It was the speed of our counter attacking that was the real difference between the teams and we scored a number of goals as a result of quickly turning defence into attack.

Scorers; - Karen Chan 4, Laura Joseph 4, Ben Goddard 2, Joe Hazeldine 2, Charlie Jones 1, Olly Rainford 1.

Exclusion; - Charlie Jones.

Match 2.

Worthing 1, Watford 6. (H/T 1-0)

A really strange match that saw us dominate the start of the game taking the lead through an excellent finish from Laura. We missed several other chances as we continued to dominate proceedings in the first half and perhaps this was the turning point of the game.

In the second half we started to make too many basic errors and we were particularly guilty in giving away possession too easily on many occasions.

The poor second period might have been explained by an element of tiredness creeping in but the final score really does not give a real indication of the closeness of the match.

Although we were disappointed with the final result the team had played well in the first half and can take a great deal of satisfaction for how they competed against an older and more physical opposition.

Scorer; - Laura Joseph

Exclusion; - Joe Hazeldine.

Squad in Full; - Sam Wildman, Laura Joseph, Karen Chan, Tara Osborne, Joe Hazeldine, Olly Rainford, Henry Jackson, Ben Goddard, Callum Craven, Charlie Jones.

Overall, this was an encouraging event for our development squad who are beginning to make good progress.

The team continues to improve and we are looking forward to the final event which is due to be played on September 13th.