Saturday 31 October 2009

U19 Sunday League - Starts Tomorrow Sunday 1st Nov

Timperley U19 (winners of the Ted Donnet Tournament and last years Sunday League tournament) play their first game in this autumns Sunday night League tomorrow Sunday 1st November, Timperley astro, face-off at 6:40pm.

Come along, wrap-up warm and watch some of the fastest lacrosse you will ever see...

U16 Results Saturday 31st October

Heaton Mersey 4 v Timperley U16 'A' 7
Timperley U16 'B' 4 v Mellor 10

Match report to follow - stand-by, it's going to be a 'blogoff' between Rob & Wylo..

U12A 22-1 Wilmslow

A really good win today for the U12A, maintaining their 100% winning record. We travelled to Wilmslow missing 3 regular players, but took the opportunity to give an A team debut to 2 players from David Shuttleworth's crack B team. They did not let us down, and have actually given the managers some potential selection headaches for the next few games.
As seems to be the case for most of our games this season, we jumped to a first quarter 5 goal lead, which handed the free clear to the opposition. This always slows our rate of scoring down a bit, but it actually gives us a chance to work on our defensive play.
The midfield (8 goals) is the real engine of this team and they showed an incredible amount of hustle today, with the 5 boys dominating the game. They formed a really tight unit and their powerful running and accurate passing left Wilmslow floundering. The ease with which we move the ball from defence to attack is a pleasure to watch, and the feeding to the attack (13 goals) was selfless. The defence was solid when called upon, with the obligatory defenders' goal being bagged in the last quarter.
We have a number of potentially tough games leading up to Christmas so every boy needs to be at training every week. The next 6 weeks of the season will give a good yardstick of how good we actually are and will be crucial to the development of the team.

Monday 26 October 2009

U12 results so far.......

The U12A has started the season very well, reaching the October half term with a 100% winning record.
The results are as follows:
Rochdale 5-2
Heaton Mersey 17-0
Mellor 23-4
Ashton 5-1
Wilmslow 7-2
Sheffield 17-11
Wacs 18-2

The U12B began slowly but has posted some great results in recent weeks.
HM Guild 1-3
Wilmslow 1-5
Stockport 1-3
Rochdale 1-1
Poynton 2-1
Norbury 5-1
Ashton 9-4
Stockport 15-0

We have two settled squads of boys, but, promisingly, there looks like there could well be some B team players pushing for a place on the A team.

Sunday 25 October 2009

U16 'B' 7 - 10 Oldham/Rochdale : Saturday 24th October

Only 6 players this week on the B team, and considering we were also playing against 2 clubs, this should really be treated like a victory !!!

Thanks have to go to the opposition who were happy to loan us some players and then play 8-a-side. It's not easy to play with guys you've never met before, but the whole team just got on with the job with a hunger for victory. Ged got his wish of playing short stick middie for the whole game, but was severly hampered by the fact that he had to use my stick. However, he bagged one early goal. In fact, that's the only goal my stick's scored this season ! Four more goals were scored in the first half by us, while DP, Jonny & Barney held off the opposition attack well only conceding 3 goals. Winning at half time.

We suffered a couple of small injuries in the 2nd half which slowed us down and allowed the Old-dale combo to take the lead. DC & Michael B (who bagged 4 goals in all) then worked tirelessly to pull us back to 7-7 all. Sadly, in the end, it proved not quite enough as the larger squad proved less tired, and prevailed with some late unanswered goals.

Fantastic effort by all the players. If we can get this close with only 6 players, then we're gonna get quite a few victories this season when we have the full 10 !!! Roll on next week .....

Saturday 24 October 2009

U16 'A' 12 - Cheadle 7 Saturday 24th October

The U16 'A' pulled off another important win today. The visitors today were Cheadle, traditionally one of the stronger teams of the junior boys league. Initial impressions were rather worrying, they had one of the tallest midfield players I have ever seen - 6'5'' tall, this player would be able to hold the ball high in the air and simply walk to goal..

No need to worry though, the match turned out to be the Tommy show. Tom Bracegirdle (6 assists and 2 goals), Tom Hawthorn (4 goals), Tom Sandy (4 goals) - with an appearance from Myles Anderson (2 goals) - saw the team take victory. While the Tommy's (and Myles) took the spotlight, this was as ever a team performance. Paul Chapman was impressive in goal, stopping some big shots, aided by Joe, Jack and Alex in defence. The back four were extremely disciplined refusing to be provoked by the Cheadle players who kept pressuring. The midfield were fast on the break and could make the rapid transition from defence to attack, feeding the attackers. It was Tomb though who stole the show, he found a weakness in the Cheadle defence and exploited it to the max - the Cheadle boys must hate him.
Another good win from a strong team - thanks to you all for a great game.

U16 Boys Win 6-a-side competition


Timperley’s Under 16 ‘A’ team complemented their unbeaten run in the league with victory in the JA Barber 6-a-Side Cup competition on Sunday.

The annual competition, hosted this year by Mellor Lacrosse Club, saw teams from across the South Manchester area come together to battle it out for the trophy. Six-a-side lacrosse is fast and hard, with few offside rules, encouraging quick attacking play. Teams are allowed to enter an eight-player squad, with six players on the pitch at any one-time and with rapid substitutions as the play moves from attack to defence or vice-versa.

The eight-player squad came through the early rounds with comfortable wins against Waconians, Poynton and Heaton Mersey, and a draw against Boardman. By the time the team came to the semi-final against Mellor they were down to seven players, attacker Tommy Hawthorn having been taken off injured. The boys came through the semi-final, winning 2-1 to go on to meet old rivals Sheffield in the final. The two teams have a long history of close matches and the final was no exception. Timperley took an early lead, and despite Sheffield pulling a goal back went into the half-time break with a 3-1 lead. Sheffield started the second half aggressively but two quick goals from Timperley sealed the win with a final score of 5-1, bringing the cup back to the club for the first time since 2001.

Team: Joe Strueli, Barney Sant (goal), Dan Perrie, Tom Bracegirdle, Miles Anderson, Toby Hawksley, Cameron Parks, Tom Hawthorn.