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Thursday, 23 May 2013 | Term 2, Week 4Sports pagesYeung in the 23rd and Waverley were only twogoals up by the close of the first half.The second half showed some improvementand Cranbrook began putting some goodmoves together, Lewis Hutcheon and DominicAu-Yeung were prominent. This team is stilllearning, they are improving, maybe a winnext week?Team: 8CScore: 2-8 LossGoal Scorers: Will CahillA great first 10 minutes for Cranbrook whichwas sadly goal-less, then Waverley tookover, scoring three goals by half time. Aftera very ‘factual’ team talk from the coachthe second half showed some improvementthen developed into a repeat of the first halfwith Waverley putting another two past theCranbrook goalkeeper.Then Will Cahill stepped up, fighting for andlosing the ball three times in the Waverleygoalmouth before slotting it through theirgoalie’s legs to score Cranbrook’s first.What followed was another two goals fromWaverley, another from Will Cahill and a thirdfrom Waverley. It was a shame that Waverley’slast three goals were clearly offside, scored bya Waverley goal-hanger who had spotted theReferee’s weakness.It would be great to say that Cranbrookwould have won this but the truth is theywould not. Their ball skills were the equalof Waverley’s but their work rate was muchpoorer. The team needs to work on sustainingboth defending and attacking play, chasingthe loose ball and challenging their opponentsconstantly. Only hassling and scrapping forthe ball will generate better score lines.Team: 7AScore: 2-2 DrawGoal Scorers: Gabriel Antoniades& Noah HarrisThe As earned a draw against Waverley witha much improved effort by all players. Lastweek was a good game but you can see thatthe training is really starting to pay off. Whileboth goals were the result of team efforts,special mention must be made of Noah andGabriel who finished brilliantly earning ourtwo goals. However it was an improvementin positioning and support that made thereal difference and that was apparent in allpositions. Both Simone and I look forward toseeing this team continue to improve.Team: 7BScore: 1-3 LossGoal Scorers: Jay FanuliTears were shed and hearts were broken asthe 7Bs suffered a shock loss on the weekendto bring their winning streak to a suddenend. After two dominating displays the boyswere fired up and full of confidence as theykicked off. What followed was crisp passingand solid defence as Waverley were powerlessto move out of their half. The pressure roseuntil Joseph, as he so often does, finished offa smooth move down the left side by pushingaway from the defence and slotting a goal intothe top right hand corner. To Waverley’s creditthey hit back straight away, pressuring ourback four until an excellent corner was poorlycleared and they evened the ledger at oneall going to half time. Knowing that an earlygoal could decide the game Cranbrook cameout firing. The midfield dominated early andwhile the ball travelled the length of the fieldseveral times it looked like Cranbrook wouldpush ahead. Unfortunately a perfect throw ballallowed Waverley an opportunity and evenwith our super keeper Carl charging him, hemanaged to put it away. Desperate times calledfor desperate measures and after anotherstring of attacking raids Cranbrook receiveda corner with only minutes left. Pushing ourdefence into the box proved costly as Waverleywon the ball and ran the length of the fieldto score. Again Carl almost denied them buta perfect last touch by the Waverley strikermeant Cranbrook finished two goals down.Players ClubTeam namePoints TableFan 4 14Abeds 12Lagos 11Twelvies 10Cats 10Chin Chongs (cc’s) 10Bees 7Venture 5Bacon 4Baptists 1CranbrookCross CountryReportCentennial Park,18 May 2013Cranbrook tie equal first withScots, beating all other GPS &CAS schoolsBy Liam ApterCranbrook Cross Country, whilst one ofCranbrook’s smaller sports, is the School’smost successful sport and we againproved that on Saturday at CentennialPark against the other CAS and GPSschools.The u14s started off the carnival runningapproximately 4 kilometres around theflat but all speed course. I would liketo congratulate Drew Fryer, who, inhis debut run came 8th in a hard-runrace. Special mentions should also goto Ben Brennan, newly joined, cominga spectacular 27th alongside LeonSalvaggio closely following behind at 31st.Next off the mark was the u16s, withMichael Turner showing what CranbrookCross Country is all about coming 12th.However, he was not alone, with RichardMatthew coming at 33rd and BenjaminClarke at a well-deserved 42nd.The final event of the day was the opensrace over a painful 7.2km. Cranbrookshowed their strength, scoring threepeople in the top ten places and comingequal first alongside a very competitiveScots College. Praise must go to KurtFryer who came second in the race,followed behind by Liam Apter at fifthand Panaretos Panayiotis who cameseventh and to secure our numberone position, Charlie Donald came in29th. Morgan Williams must also beacknowledged for his valiant effort incompleting the race coming 83rd despitebeing very ill.To all the boys who I did not mention,we were very proud of your efforts as welland we hope you can do even better nextweek at Sydney Park! I would also liketo thank the continuing support of MrSimic and the Slavin brothers in helpingthe team.25