Southwater added the Horsham Year 3 Football Cup to their list of victories for the season tonight at Tanbridge as they overcame St Mary’s Pulborough 5-2 in the final.
The nine teams were organised into two first phase groups. In Group A Pulborough were the surprise package beating all three of their opponents despite only having the bare seven players of a team. A win, draw and a loss was enough to book Heron way the second qualifying spot for the Phase 2 Top Tier.
Northolmes excelled in Group B, hitting a strong St Mary’s Horsham team, that held Southwater to a draw, quite literally for six in their first match and then following up with two more victories before Southwater grounded them 3-0 in their final group match. St Mary’s blip aside Southwater powered their way to the top qualifying spot.
Southwater swept aside Heron Way in the semi-final whilst Pulborough came out the right side of a tense penalty shoot-out with Northolmes to earn their final spot. In the final Pulborough gave a good account of themselves versus the Southies scoring two but could not stop leaking them at the other end.
Leechpool won the Tier Two final against St Mary’s Horsham, 3-0 despite losing to them in the group exchange they had. Castlewood made up for a difficult night of group losses by confidently beating Shelley in the Tier Three fixture.
RESULTS
PITCH 1 | PITCH 2 | PITCH 3 | PITCH 4 |
PHASE 1 | |||
GROUP A Heron Way 9pts St Mary’s Pulborough 15pts Shelley 7pts Kingslea 5pts | GROUP B Northolmes 16pts Castlewood 4pts Leechpool 9pts St Mary’s Horsham 14pts Southwater 18pts | ||
Heron Way 0 v 1 Pulboro |
| Castlewood 0 v 1 Leechpool | Northol 6 v 0 St Mary’s Hm |
Shelley 0 v 1 Heron Way |
| Southwater 1 v 0 Castlewood | Leechpool 0 v 1 Northolmes |
Kingslea 0 v 0 Heron Way | Pulboro 2 v 0 Shelley | St Mary’s Hm 2 v 0 Castle | Leechpool 0 v 2 Southwater |
| Kingslea 0 v 2 Shelley | Castlewood 0 v 2 Northolmes | St Mary’s Hm 1 v 1 Southwater |
Pulboro 3 v 0 Kingslea |
| Leechpool 1 v 2 St Mary’s Hm | Northolmes 0 v 3 Southwater |
PHASE 2 | |||
UPPER TIER SEMI 1 1st Group A v 2nd Group B Pulborough 0 v 0 Northolmes Pulboro win on pens | UPPER TIER SEMI 2 1st Group B v 2nd Group A Southwater 2 v 0 Heron way
| MIDDLE TIER SEMI 1 3rd Group A v 4th Group B Shelley 0 v 1 Leechpool | MIDDLE TIER SEMI 2 3rd Group B v 4th Group A St Mary’s Hm 2 v 1 Kingslea |
UPPER TIER FINAL Winner Semi1 v Winner Semi2 Pulborough 2 v 5 Southwater |
| MIDDLE TIER FINAL Winner Semi1 v Winner Semi2 Leechpool 3 v 0 St Mary’s Hm | LOWER TIER PLAY-OFF 5th Group A v 5th Group B Castlewood 3 v Shelley 0 |