Another super football tournament on the Tanbridge astroturf last night as local primary school year 5 and 6 girls coming in search of glory.
10 teams entered the event and were split into two round-robin groups for the initial group phase. Heron Way prevailed in Group A with three wins and a draw in front of Leechpool A which was the team they drew against but also drew against Shelley. Southwater cleaned up with four straight wins in Group B, including a 1-0 one over Kingslea A who took the other top-tier qualifying slot by winning its three other games.
Phase 2 consisted of three play-off tiers informed by initial group positions. Of seven play-off games in total only two finished with clear results at full-time; five required penalty shoot-outs. A penalty plethora no less.
As Southwater saw off Leechpool A in their top tier semi Kingslea managed to come through its one with a penalty win. Their final against Southwater finished goalless so penalties applied again. Southwater won the marathon sudden-death process but later on appeal the result was reversed in Kingslea’s favour on the basis of the rule abridgement by Southwater of a player taking a penalty who had not been on the pitch at the end of the match proper.
Shelley and Castlewood got to their middle-tier final by virtue of penalties as well but a single Shelley strike precluded the need for another spot-fest in that final. Pulborough and St Mary’s finished 1-1 in their third-tier play off but the decision was made to share that one.
The Year 5’s (mixed) take the stage next week.
YEAR 56 GIRLS FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT RESULTS 070325
PITCH 1 | PITCH 2 | PITCH 3 | PITCH 4 |
PHASE 1 | |||
GROUP A Heron Way 18pts St Mary’s Pulborough 6pts Leechpool A 16pts Northolmes 6pts Shelley 14pts | GROUP B Castlewood 10pts Leechpool B 8pts Kingslea 16pts St Mary’s Horsham 6pts Southwater 20pts | ||
Heron Way 6 v 0 Pulboro | Leechpool A 2 v 0 Northolmes | Castlewood 1 v 0 Leechpool B | Kingslea 1 v 0 St Mary’s Hm |
Shelley 0 v 1 Heron Way | Pulboro 0 v 2 Leechpool A | Southwater 2 v 0 Castlewood | Leechpool B 0 v 2 Kingslea |
Northolmes 0 v 4 Heron Way | Pulboro 0 v 1 Shelley | St Mary’s Hm 0 v 0 Castlewood | Leechpool B 1 v 3 Southwater |
Heron Way 1 v 1 Leechpool A | Northolmes 0 v 2 Shelley | Castlewood 0 v 1 Kingslea | St Mary’s Hm 0 v 4 Southwater |
Pulboro 0 v 0 Northolmes | Leechpool A 0 v 0 Shelley | Leechpool B 2 v 0 St Mary’s Hm | Kingslea 0 v 1 Southwater |
PHASE 2 | |||
UPPER TIER SEMI 1 1st Group A v 2nd Group B Heron Way 1 v 1 Kingslea Kingslea win on pens | UPPER TIER SEMI 2 1st Group B v 2nd Group A Southwater 1 v 0 Leechpool A | MIDDLE TIER SEMI 1 3rd Group A v 4th Group B Shelley 0 v 0 Leechpool B Shelley win on pens | MIDDLE TIER SEMI 2 3rd Group B v 4th Group A Castlewood 0 v 0 Northolmes Castlewood win on pens |
UPPER TIER FINAL Winner Semi1 v Winner Semi2 Kingslea 0 v 0 Southwater Kingslea win | MIDDLE TIER FINAL Winner Semi1 v Winner Semi2 Shelley 1 v 0 Castlewood | LOWER TIER PLAY-OFF 5th Group A v 5th Group B Pulborough 1 v 1 St Mary’s Hm Position shared | |