Friday, 16 June 2017

U19 Boys Hockey

Saturday the under 19 boys went to Simba International School to play hockey against three other schools. Unfortunately Chengelo were not able to make it due to transport difficulties, but Simba managed to organise a second team so we played against Simba A, Simba B and Lechwe School.
Our first match was against Simba A and this was a wake up call for us because we weren’t really that organised as a team, and so they managed to score an easy goal in the first half of the game, in the second half we became more active and we started communicating as well as playing well as a team and we managed to play the ball into spaces quickly, but Simba A was a slightly better team than us and they managed to score another goal and so we lost that game 2-0.
 
Cholwe working the left side against Simba B


 Our second match was against Simba B and this game was a little different because we went in mentally prepared as well as physically, we were communicating well as a team and we were getting the ball up at the oppositions' goal with some ease but we switched off for a bit and because of this Simba B managed to score an easy goal and so at half time the score was 1-0 to Simba B. In the second half we decided to pull up our socks and play at the intensity that we did in the first half and shortly after the second half started we managed to equalise with Xavier scoring the goal, in the end the game ended as a draw with the scores 1-1.

Our third and final match was against Lechwe and this was a tough game but we managed to dominate and score 2 goals in the first half and then they also scored 1, so by half time the scores were 2-1. In the second half we went to sleep and so they managed to score an equalising goal, that is when everything went south because our attitude changed and we stopped communicating and working together as a team, so as a result we ended up losing that game 5-2.

Ilunga having to defend against a formidable opponent!

I would like to thank Xavier, our youngest player who managed to score two goals for the team and I would like to thank everyone who came to support us, Mr Grove for coaching us and God for granting us a good day. I would also like to apologise to Mr Grove about the attitude that we had in our last game.

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