Season Kicks Off for Strollers Girl’s Under 13’s

Our under 13’s girls played their first competitive match last Saturday in the inaugural game of the 2015 season.  The girls traveled to Perth to take on Letham Tangie Juniors in what was a hotly contested match.

The expected first game nerves were on show by the girls in the early part of the match, partly due to them having not played a game with an official referee on the pitch before, which took them a bit by surprise. Despite this, they settled into the game and took an early 2-0 lead with goals from captain, Denver Hopkins, and Kerys Blythe.

Letham pulled a goal back shortly after and quickly followed this with an equaliser. Worse was to come for the Strollers as they lost another and ended up going off the pitch 3-2 down at half-time, in a game they had started off so well in.

After a good half time team talk our girls played far better in the second half, showing better team work and communication – which resulted in Shannon Reekie pulling the game level for us to make it 3-3.  The pace of the game increased as the second half wore on, seeing the play switch from end to end.

The Strollers finally took the lead again when Brodie Clark pounced to get the fourth goal.  Our girls then went on to put the result beyond doubt when Shannon and Kerys both scored their second goals of the game to see the match finish 3-6 to the Strollers.

Both teams played well on the day in what was an exciting match.  This result sets our girls up nicely for their next game at home against Raith Rovers on March 21st.