Not football, not quite futsal

An indoor soccer tournament between 5 southern high schools was held at the Huonville PCYC on Friday (2nd July). Teams from Dover, Geeveston, Glenora, Huonville and Woodbridge took part, each playing a series of fifteen minute games, one game against each of other teams. Since these Woodbridge grade 8, 9 & 10 boys make up half of the WSC Under 16 team, we shall tell you all about it below...

Woodbridge began the tournament playing impressive 5-a-side futsal against the Huonville team until, 5 minutes into the first game, they were alerted to the fact that everyone else was playing 6-a-side indoor soccer; the big, bouncy, fluffy ball (or a head-count of the opposition) probably should have given it away. Luckily Huonville had not managed to seriously threaten the Woodbridge's defence in the first 5 minutes, what with Rainen intercepting the ball and Aiden guarding the goal-mouth. The only goal for the game was scored late into the second half by Bolan, giving Woodbridge a 1 – 0 win.

In the second game Woodbridge took on an impressive Glenora team, whose passing play had been a joy to watch from the balcony, but failed to net them a result against the Woodbridge lads. A goal from Phineas had ensured that Woodbridge was ahead 1 – 0 by half time. The resulting pressure caused the young Glenora team to make some grave errors in and around the penalty box, conceding first a penalty and then a free-kick, both of which Bolan duly converted. The final result was 3 – 0 to Woodbridge.

Woodbridge took on Dover in their third game and two great goals from Deans in the first half were unmatched in the second. Jordan's sublime attacking play held oodles of promise but Dover was determined not to concede any more goals. Defensively, Kye and Rainen played so well that Dover hardly got to venture into the Woodbridge half, and the game concluded as a 2 – 0 win to Woodbridge.

The final match up was against a young well-kitted out Geeveston team, who despite having lost 4 – 0 to Huonville and 2 – 0 to Dover, managed to keep the score to respectable 0-0 at half-time. Woodbridge returned to the pitch in the second half with renewed intent, Phin and then Bolan both netting the ball to ultimately win the game 2 – 0.

Various combinations of Phineas, Jordan, Deans and Bolan in attack, Rainen and/or Kye defending and Aiden's goal-stopping, saw the Woodbridge team head home undefeated and having conceded no goals.

Results:
Woodbridge 1 – Huonville 0 (Bolan 1);
Glenora 0 – Geeveston 0;

Dover 2 – Geeveston 0;
Glenora 0 Woodbridge 3 (Phineas 1, Bolan 2);

Huonville 4 – Geeveston 0;
Glenora 4 – Dover 2;

Dover 0 – Woodbridge 2 (Deans 2);
Glenora 1 – Huon Valley 2;

Geeveston 0 – Woodbridge 2 (Phin 1, Bolan 1);
Dover – Huonville; (result unknown)