On Saturday (12th July) we went to Chengelo, Mkushi to play hockey. It was a 4.5 hour bus ride with Mr Grove driving. When we reached we had 15 minutes to get ready for our matches.
Our first match was against Chengelo B on pitch 2. In my opinion their team looked like they were ten year olds, but I guess the coach was giving them experience. They took the lead in the first half but then I equalised with a deflection when Musonda crossed the ball. In the second half Yannick scored the winning goal. In the end we won, 2-1.
Our second match was against Simba on pitch 3. Their tactic was to be aggressive and I guessed it worked because they won 3-1. But the loss gave us an experience that would help us for our last game.
Our last game was against Chengelo A, who was said to be the best team. It was a tight game which we let slip away from us when they scored from a free hit. But everyone was convinced that it was a dangerous ball that they hit, everyone except for the referee.
Overall it was a good experience and we hope that we can come back with substitutes.
By Kurt Fernandes
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| Jean in attack with Tarisai in support |
U19 Boys Hockey
On Saturday we left Amano at 5:00 in the morning and arrived at Chengelo at 9:30 to play hockey. Our first game was against Lechwe and as usual when you get off the bus you are still half asleep and so in our half asleep state we held Lechwe at 2:1 game to them.
Our second game was against Chengelo and we played really well; to mention a few names Ben and Will defended well, Andy and Nkwali supplied good balls to Sani and me to finish off. In the end we played well and with Sani injured we lost 1:0 in last minute.
Our last game was against Simba. We started with an early goal and the game seemed to be on going our way, but we lost focus and ended up losing 3:1.
After that we still had some time so we played a rematch against Chengelo and played the best we had played the whole day with some good saves by the keeper Caleb and some good plays by the boys and won the game 1:0.
Special thanks to Mr Grove for driving, coaching and supporting and for Mrs Miles for organizing and making sure everyone was in the right place at right time.
Thank you.
By Seth Pondrun
U19 Girls Hockey
On Saturday we went to Chengelo to play hockey. The boys took teams for all three age groups, but the girls only took an U19 team with no subs. There were six or seven groups of games. There were four games going on at one time. There were only four schools there; Simba, Chengelo, Lechwe, and Amano. Our first game was against Chengelo. They were big girls, I think mainly A - level students. We had fun in that game. They scored one goal in the first half, and we scored a fluke in the second. Someone shot the ball towards the goal, and one of the Chengelo girls tapped it in. We were really happy we tied with Chengelo’s main team. We had a long rest after that, and played after, maybe, three rounds.
Our last game was against Simba (Lechwe only brought an U16 team.) We scored two goals in the first half and none in the second. We won that game. We really enjoyed the trip and had lots of fun.
Congrats to everyone.
By Joyce Muteb
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| U16 Boys Goal Keeper Mwansa Mwansa |
The U16 boys had a hard time but didn't give up and were borrowing a player from the U14's, the goal keeper Mwansa Mwansa, who played very well.
U16 Boys: Amano vs Chengelo A 1:3; Amano vs Simba 0:2; Chengelo B vs Amano 3:0.
With so few competitive matches in our hockey season we have to travel far to get games and the students found the competition challenging psychologically rather than skills wise. I am very happy with their efforts and the display of skills learned through the first half of this term. It is never easy getting off a bus and playing and in order to have four teams attend we had to sacrifice subs in all the teams so we could fit in the bus!
Not ideal, especially for a hockey tournament but the Amano students rise well to the challenge.
We are grateful to Chengelo for hosting this event annually.
By Mr Grove
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