The u12's are up and running in this season's cup competition with an 11-6 victory. Racing out of the blocks Mellor quickly went 3 up with goals from Spencer, Ollie and Arthur A. With goals for that quarter done, two things perhaps happened, one the boys thought they were going to run away with the scoring and two it fired up Mersey, who came out the stronger in the 2nd quarter and very quickly pegged it back to 3-3! Game very much on, complacency out of the window...sleeves rolled up. The 2nd quarter was an absolute goal fest for the match as a whole, with 8 goals and an end of quarter score line of 4-7. Shout out at this point for Sully, who making his season debut got himself on the score line with a well taken goal.
The scoring was as busy as the penalty bench, as the Mersey boys, stretched thin by low numbers, started to tire and became more and more frustrated, the result was plenty of flags down and time spent on the bench.
In the third quarter a 4-8 score line did become 6-8, but two quick-fire goals from Henry put some distance once again between the two teams, and this became the final blow.
A fourth quarter played out with just the 1 goal for Mellor and another hard fought victory achieved.
Much to take forward to the next matches. Two real successes was the togetherness of the team and that defensive '6-formation', Coach Huss will be pleased!
Goal Scorers: Spencer x2; Arthur A x2; Ollie x2; Henry x2; Sully x1; Hugo x1; Rileyx1