The pressure was on for our under 12’s on Sunday, following on from a very convincing win for the under 14’s earlier that morning and success for the under 16’s the day before, it was up to the team to complete the hat-trick. It was clear parents were out to give full support to the boys, complete with a drum section courtesy of Heather Barlow, which could be heard across the pitch.

The game itself was best described as tense and scrappy. We led 4-3 in the first quarter and finished the second quarter at 5-4, with not much to separate the teams in terms of score or performance on the pitch. The real turning point in the game came early in the third quarter, courtesy of a quick-fire hat-trick of goals from Jamie Mochan, all superbly taken, which gave us just enough to finish more comfortably at 9-6 end of quarter 3 and 11-8 at the end. Stand out performances as mentioned from Jamie, but George as usual helped make the difference – there was barely a scramble for a ground ball he was not involved with (and won) and fighting for every ball.

There was plenty of tasty checks and some rough injuries during the game but the boys shrugged this off and did what they do best - pass, move and work as a team. Both teams struggled to stay within the pitch boundaries at times but despite this the boys won through in the end and the relief was obvious all round. A special mention as well for the 5 boys rotating on the bench. Lacrosse is a team sport and we could not win without the ability to rotate players around so a special thank you to our those players in particular.

Well done boys, great win and well deserved.

Goals

Jamie 4
George 3
Noah 2
Finn 1
Josh 1