U16's v St Anselms

In a highly competitive game down at the Oval the U16 team set out to gain revenge against St Anselms.  These matches are usually close and with a slightly disrupted side we saw Tom Smith make his school team debut in goal.  In a tight first half St Anselms took the lead but the hardest part of the first half saw Clegg caught in a challenge by a Saints shoulder following a Dennis foul. This ended Cleggs game and a trip to hospital resulting in a broken nose in four places!!   As the second half started Saints doubled their lead but some good attacking hockey saw Wirral get back into the game through a well struck Dutton corner, 2-1.

But St Anselms again scored and took a two goal lead only to see Farrington  score a definite goal of the season contender, with a great lob to bring the score back to 3-2.  But we could not seem to take our chances and the St Anselms team further added to their lead to 4-2 until Dennis smashed in from the edge of the circle, but as Mr Thomason said, man of the match must go to Tom Smith on debut who played in goal with two left handed gloves and without a good quality chest pad.  

The 4-3 result with a slightly altered side and full debuts for Shenck and Smith and recalls for Turner was a real positive and considering that we struggled in our last fixture against Saints we have progressed well this year.   Well done guys.  Have a good half term break and you guys have a game at home on the first Wed back against Merchant Taylors.

AJM