Girls Under 12's Win League Cup Final!

In our last game of the season we travelled across to Ilkley Town FC to face newly crowned Girls under 12 League Champions Knaresborough Celtic in the league Cup Final.  In a very tight and competitive match both sides worked hard to create chances however despite the game being end to end in the first half few clear cut chances were created.  All our players worked extremely hard and were successful in closing Celtic down and giving them no opportunity to get there normal passing game going.

In midfield in particular some hard running from Skipper Dani supported ably by Ellie C and Emily on either side all snapping into countless tackles made life difficult for Celtic.  Anya and Katie looking particularly strong at the back and when Celtic did break though Grace continued her recent excellent form to keep the scores level. 

0-0 at half time.  

In the second half Ellie C came off and Amy came on and slotted in seamlessly – again we were working incredibly hard to impose ourselves on a very good Celtic side. As the game progressed in the 2^nd half it became a little more open with both keepers being called into action.  The deadlock was broken when Emily worked herself some space on the wing and delivered an accurate cross to striker Hannah who drilled a shot into the bottom left hand corner to put us 1-0 in front.  We had a chance to go further ahead when Hannah again smartly turned her defender and hit the post – so close but so far!

Celtic came back strongly pushing hard to find the equaliser and were rewarded for their efforts by being awarded a penalty with 5 minutes to go.  Fortunately for us the resulting penalty crashed onto the bar and was cleared to safety. Celtic continued to look for the equaliser but our defence well marshalled by player of the match Katie held firm.

At the final whistle the roar that went up was incredibly loud with parents and grandparents etc rushing onto the pitch to celebrate together with the players.

After a great performance last week in the Killinghall tournament where we came out winners it was great to carry the form on and win the cup in the final game of the season against the run away league winners, Celtic.  A fantastic result!   

It was very much a squad effort to lift the cup and a special mention to Ellie Mac, Ellie L and Issy that whilst not making it onto the pitch in the final contributed fully in the proceeding rounds and made a huge positive contribution during our cup run.   

From all the GU12 coaches –

Well done to everyone in the squad for the effort and commitment during a very successful season, enjoy the summer break!

Girls U12 KNJFC 2014 Tournament Winners!!!!!!

The day after the club Fun/Presentation day a number of the GU12 squad took the opportunity to play in the annual Harrogate 6 a side tournament held by Killinghall Nomads.

The girls were up against some very strong sides including NE Leeds, Ilkley and Killinghall etc.

On the day everyone gave 110%, Grace had a faultless performance in goal, the defence of Katie, Anya and Amy kept out most of the attacks to keep it really tight. In midfield skipper Danni, Emily and Ellie C worked tirelessly up and down the pitch and covered every blade of grass. Up front Hannah worked hard to create space and always looked a threat.

As a result of the above we made it to all the way to the final where we faced the hosts Killinghall Nomads.  A very tight matched ensued which then went into extra time.  As the game looked to be heading towards penalties the ball broke to Emily in midfield who looked up steadied herself and hit a long range effort that nestled into the bottom corner. Cue bedlam from all the Scotton players!!!!!!!

In all we played 8 games, lost none and did not concede a single goal. . Grace “safe hands” Pollock managing to keep out a number of penalties and being named Scotton player of the Tournament.   

A fantastic team performance where we played some excellent football going forward and looked incredibly tight at the back

Well done to all that took part.!!!!!