The U11’s followed up their win against Knaresborough in the cup with a 6 – 1 league win over Ilkley on Saturday. Ilkley are a new team in the league this year and were welcomed to the cricket pitch for the first time. They ran into a Scotton team that has found a rich goal scoring streak, with Chloe scoring her second hat-trick in a row.
The pitch was very wet which made playing conditions very tough and for the first few minutes both sides struggled to take control. However, Scotton soon won a series of corners in a good period of pressure and Maddy managed to get on the end of a superb cross by Ella to put Scotton one up. Ella then quickly made it two when she hit a great shot from inside the area past the keeper.
Ilkley did not let their heads drop however and continued to push forward. They found Molly and Emma in fine form and Emma in particular found the conditions to her liking as she continually won the ball and played it out of defence with some great touches and passing.
Scotton continued to create chances however and Chloe made the last one before half time count to give Scotton a deserved 3-0 lead at the break.
At half time Emily replaced the hard working Ella and Georgina replaced Molly who had put in her usual solid performance in the defence.
The defence was called into action early in the second half and was eventually breached when Ilkley pulled a goal back despite the best efforts of Courtney who otherwise had a very solid game in goal, making some great saves and getting very muddy in the process!
The goal gave Ilkley some renewed hope and only a superb goal line tackle by Emma and some good tackling by Georgina held Ilkley at bay. However Scotton soon regained their confidence and following another good passing move in midfield Chloe took control of a loose ball and put it past the keeper to restore the three goal lead. Chloe then set up Emily for the fifth, Emily showing that the recent shooting practice was paying off as she nearly bust the net with her shot! Chloe then completed the scoring, and her hat-trick, to make it a very well earned 6-1 win.
Emma picked up the Man of the Match award for her solid performance in defence with Chloe taking great pleasure in her second hat-trick of the season.
The friendly saw Leah make her first appearance for Scotton in a game where Scotton managed to win 3-0.
Both games were played in a very positive fashion and Ilkley were very welcome visitors to Scotton and played their full part in a very entertaining game.
