Having won the district round of this competition in the Autumn Term the school's football team travelled to Sleaford on Saturday 25th January to defend their County Champion's title.
This year the competition was run as a league with all of the 7 teams playing each other once. Everything went well in the first 4 games as we defeated Navenby 1 – 0, Caistor 3 – 0, Bourne Westfield 1 – 0 and Parish Church 1 – 0. Our 5th game saw us lose 1 – 0 to Boston West who had won all their games up to that point. That result left us needing Boston West to lose one of their last two games. To add further drama, play was suspended just after Boston had kicked off against Navenby due to a thunder storm hitting the area. For a while it looked like the storm was going to cause the event to be abandoned. Fortunately, the storm passed quickly and the teachers voted to complete the competition.
Boston and Navenby restarted their match. Navenby were third in the league at this point and needed a win to keep their hopes of winning the competition alive. At half time the score remained 0 – 0 but with time running out in the second half Navenby got the goal which put them top of the table with 13 points from their 6 games.
With Navenby having completed their fixtures it meant we had to win our final game against St Mary’s and score 3 more goals than Boston did against Parish Church. With the matches taking place at the same time on opposite sides of the field all we could do was concentrate on winning our own game and scoring lots of goals. We pinned St Mary’s into their own half for most of the game and ran out 4 – 0 winners. Meanwhile Boston had been unable to get a breakthrough against Parish Church, making us champions for the second year running.
Full Results
Final Table
So it is on to Nottingham for the Midland Region Finals on Saturday 15th March.
Squad: Morgan, Hanley, Bradley, George, Charlie, Jamie, Billy, Aiden and Declan
This year the competition was run as a league with all of the 7 teams playing each other once. Everything went well in the first 4 games as we defeated Navenby 1 – 0, Caistor 3 – 0, Bourne Westfield 1 – 0 and Parish Church 1 – 0. Our 5th game saw us lose 1 – 0 to Boston West who had won all their games up to that point. That result left us needing Boston West to lose one of their last two games. To add further drama, play was suspended just after Boston had kicked off against Navenby due to a thunder storm hitting the area. For a while it looked like the storm was going to cause the event to be abandoned. Fortunately, the storm passed quickly and the teachers voted to complete the competition.
Boston and Navenby restarted their match. Navenby were third in the league at this point and needed a win to keep their hopes of winning the competition alive. At half time the score remained 0 – 0 but with time running out in the second half Navenby got the goal which put them top of the table with 13 points from their 6 games.
With Navenby having completed their fixtures it meant we had to win our final game against St Mary’s and score 3 more goals than Boston did against Parish Church. With the matches taking place at the same time on opposite sides of the field all we could do was concentrate on winning our own game and scoring lots of goals. We pinned St Mary’s into their own half for most of the game and ran out 4 – 0 winners. Meanwhile Boston had been unable to get a breakthrough against Parish Church, making us champions for the second year running.
Full Results
Time
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Pitch 1
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Pitch 2
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Pitch 3
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1.10
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Bourne 1 - 0 Caistor
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St. Mary’s 0 - 0 Parish
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Richmond 1 - 0 Navenby
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1.30
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Boston 1 - 0 Bourne
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Caistor 0 - 3 Richmond
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Parish 1 - 1 Navenby
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1.50
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Caistor 0 - 3 Boston
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Richmond 1 - 0 Bourne
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Navenby 2 - 0 St. Mary’s
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2.10
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Navenby 2 - 0 Bourne
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St. Mary’s 0 -3 Boston
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Parish 0 - 1 Richmond
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2.30
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Break
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2.40
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St. Mary’s 0 - 1 Caistor
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Parish 0 - 1 Bourne
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Boston 1 - 0 Richmond
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3.10
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Bourne 1 - 1 St. Mary’s
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Navenby 1 - 0 Boston
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Caistor 0 -2 Parish
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3.30
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Parish 0 - 0 Boston
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Caistor 0 - 2 Navenby
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St Mary’s 0 - 4 Richmond
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Final Table
School
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Played
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Won
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Drawn
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Lost
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For
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Against
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Goal difference
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Points
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Richmond
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6
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5
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0
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1
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10
|
1
|
9
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15
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Boston West
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6
|
4
|
1
|
1
|
8
|
1
|
7
|
13
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Navenby
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6
|
4
|
1
|
1
|
8
|
2
|
6
|
13
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Bourne Westfield
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6
|
2
|
1
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3
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3
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5
|
-2
|
7
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Parish Church
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6
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1
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3
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2
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3
|
3
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-4
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6
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Caistor
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6
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1
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0
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5
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1
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12
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-11
|
3
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St. Mary’s
|
6
|
0
|
2
|
4
|
1
|
10
|
-10
|
2
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So it is on to Nottingham for the Midland Region Finals on Saturday 15th March.
Squad: Morgan, Hanley, Bradley, George, Charlie, Jamie, Billy, Aiden and Declan
Well done boys! What a brilliant event. So good that I didn't even notice the wind and rain. All the players played really good clean football which was a joy to watch. Roll on Nottingham!
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