By Nick Leith | Posted: Tuesday August 4, 2020
Our boys' football teams are three weeks into their weekly competition. Here are the latest match reports from our teams.
Our Casebrook FC is unbeaten through the first three rounds of the Hagley competition. This week pulling off a come from behind, last-minute victory over Chisnallwood through goals from Ryder Kamo and William Sandford.
Last week Casebrook FC beat Heaton 4-3 in a close and exciting match.
Goals - Aiden Sandys, William Sandford x 2, Jayden Potts
After a great first up win our United side has had a couple of tough losses against a classy Chch South side (1-6) and a Chisnallwood team that started the game off the better team (2-5). The United side has kept up their determination and came back well in the second half this week, finishing the stronger side.
Goals - Utd v Chch Sth - Grayson Poudyel
Goals - Utd v Chisnallwood - Grayson Poudyel x 2
By Toby Gee and Leon Greig
Matchday 2 - v Breens
It was matchday 2 for the Casebrook Wanderers as they walked confidently onto the pitch, ready for their game against Breens. Casebrook got off to a good start, and soon after kickoff, Archie passed to Leon who opened the scoring.
Soon after that, we scored the second goal after a great assist! After a few more minutes of hard playing, we slotted one home to make it 3-0! As the whistle went for half time, the Wanderers jogged off the pitch. Coach Dan, gave them some words of motivation. After the Casebrook players had reflected on their lead, they made their way onto the pitch to finish the game they had started. Soon after the whistle, Breens took the ball and got one back. 3-1. But the Wanderers were not discouraged. They smashed two more into the back of the net.
There was only ten minutes left to go and Casebrook were still playing strong. Another goal looked to be the last, but in the last minute, Lincoln took the ball and went on a run. He was looking to score, but he lost the ball, which went to Leon, who booted it into the bottom corner for a hat-trick.
The Wanderers went home, still unbeaten.
Goals - Leon Grieg x 3, Archie x 1, Elliot x 1, Toby x 1
Match day 3 - Friendly v Heaton Girls
It was a warm afternoon on Tuesday when the Casebrook Wanderers went to Hagley to play their third game of football for the 2020 season. Although Casebrook had a bye they were still able to play a friendly game against Heaton Intermediate’s Year 7 girls team. At half time the score was 4-nil to Casebrook but Heaton upped their game in the second half, scoring 2 goals to Casebrook’s single second-half goal. The match ended with a final score of 5-2 to Casebrook. The Wanderers played well as a team and came home feeling happy.
Goals - Jayden Gwynn x2, Liam McClennan, Leon Greig, Nathan Sawyer