211075 Downing Record 07 - Downing College - University of ...

commendable second place finish and an unbeaten record. Our cuppers run waseven more successful culminating in a 1–0 final victory over St. Catherine’s whohad done the double in the two previous seasons and were prevented from doingthe same again by a very spirited team performance. Special mention has to goto Siobhan Brady who scored the winning goal that day and also received thePlayer of the Season award. University colours went to Tash Close, Jenny Stevensand Nuala Tumelty who all played in the 2nds Varsity match and college colourswere awarded to Siobhan Brady, Jenny Stevens and Clare Palmer. Congratulationsto Sarah Donaldson who was voted as next season’s captain.LacrosseThe Downing Ducks Lacrosse Team has had its most successful season to datethis year, winning both league and cuppers inter- college competitions. In theleague, we came top of our group to play Clare in the semi-final. The game lookeda bit ropy to begin with, not helped by the fact that we were finding it difficultto catch, but we managed to pull through towards the end of the first half withtwo goals scored just before the whistle was blown. However, it turned out thatthe first half had only been 10 minutes instead of the prearranged 15 minutes,so we decided to go on a play 3 10-minute halves! The next two halves weredominated much more by Downing, leading us to victory against Clare 5–0 anda place in the final.Meanwhile, on the other pitch, Johns were playing Churchill in a match thatwas 1–1 at full time. John’s finally won with an extra time golden goal, and sowe went on to play them in the final. John’s started off much more strongly thanClare had, with a few worrying moments in front of our goal. We remained calm,however, and went on to win the final 2–0 and so were crowned leaguechampions.The ultimate challenge of the lacrosse inter-college tournaments is cuppers.After winning the league the pressure was on to “do the double” and win thistournament as well. We all started out feeling a little nervous, and although wewon our first game against Newnham, it wasn’t as convincing as the last timewe’d played them, where we’d won 12–0. We improved as we got our confidence,going on to win our group, and getting through to the semi-finals. The semi-finalwas against Selwyn, who were determined, but we managed to fight back andwin against them too. The final was against Queens, who we had already playedin the group stage. They had a huge number of supporters, who insisted onbanging saucepans together, and shouting at all of us, in an attempt to put usoff! They didn’t succeed however, and we went on to “Do the double”, cuppersand league champions 2007.83