ISAZ National Football

The under 19 girls team went to Baobab College to play in the ISAZ national football games. There were 8 schools present namely, Lechwe, Amano, Ndola Trust, Chengelo, ISL, AISL, Rhodes Park and LICS. We had 3 games to play in our pool and were expected to win at least 2 games to reach the Semi-finals. So we played three schools, Rhodes Park, Lechwe and ISL.

 Our first game was against Rhodes Park and we drew the game 0 - 0 [not a bad result as RP were top of Midlands area]. Our second game was against Lechwe, we played better and where able to get a goal in, but the referee said it was not a goal and so we drew that game 0 - 0. Our last and final game was against ISL and we did not play as well as we did in our last game and they were able to score a goal and so we lost that game 1 - 0.

 

Shoshanna making one of many saves

  Since all the teams in our pool had equal points [actually a tie for first and a tie for third] we had to go to penalties [to decide pool positions] and only Natalie Grove managed to score a goal and so we lost to RP 2-1. This meant we went to play for 7^th place against Ndola Trust and drew again 0 - 0, so again we went to penalties and lost again 2-1 and the penalty was scored again by Natalie Grove, the rest of the team either missed the goal or it was saved by the goalkeeper.

Natalie putting in another penalty

 Overall we did not play as well as we did in the regionals and so we lost and came out eighth. We had a period of mood changes so we did not play as well as we usually do. The woman of the match was Natalie Grove, she was optimistic, played really well and had a positive attitude. The other woman of the match was Shoshanna Ronald as she played really well, caught many balls and saved many penalties. After all the mood swings were put aside we played better and had fun as a team and enjoyed our time playing. 

Big thanks to Mr Grove for driving us there and coaching us and also to Mrs Grove for coaching and supporting us. An even bigger thanks to God for the weather, good health and safe travels.

Report by N. Chiombe

U19G Football regionals

 We, the under 19 girls football team, went to Lechwe School to compete in the ISAZ under 19 regional 7 aside football games. There were 9 teams in attendance namely, Simba, Trident, Chengelo, Mpelembe, Ndola Trust, Nsansa, Amano, Lechwe and Kalulushi schools. We had to play 5 games in total. Our first game was against Nsansa which ended with Amano 2 - 0 Nsansa. We really played well in this game and had a very strong defence. The two goals were scored by Diana and Rosemary. Our second game was against Kalulushi, we had a good defence and attack, we had many shots on goal though we were able to only score 1 goal in that game and so we won that game 1 - 0. The goal was scored by Diana. Our third game was against Chengelo. We had a bit of fear and gave them an easy goal but then we strengthened our defence and so our game ended 1 - 0 to them but even with this result we went into the semi-finals, coming out 2^nd in our pool.

Diana challenging the ball against Chengelo

 Our semi-final game was against Ndola Trust, we went in thinking this would be an easy game but we learned quickly that it was not going to be an easy game. We kept our defence organised and attack strong so we had some shots on goal, but was only able to score 1 goal. The result of that game placed us in the finals for first or second position.

 We came head to head against Chengelo again and this time we played really hard and put in our best and that game ended 0 - 0 and in order to determine who were the regional champions we went to penalties. Natalie and Natasha scored the first two but after 3 penalties we were tied at 2 - 2. Unfortunately we lost by 1 goal in sudden death and so Chengelo were the regional champions.
 The team played really well and we came second in all the under 19 girls football team. The teams' spirit, perseverance, hardwork and sportsmanship were encouraging and their 'never give up attitude' got them into second place.

Regionals Runners Up Team

 The women of the match were Rosemary, Diana, Faith and Natalie. A big thanks to the team, Mrs Grove for coaching us, Mr Grove for all the training and God for the good weather and health.