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The sports pages
Football
10b
A shaky start from the boys in white led
to an early goal by Aloysius’, a huge blow
to the lads. This very abruptly woke the
’Brook players up and for the greater part
of the second half, Cranbrook created
many positive opportunities. Although Max
McGrath was showing great persistence,
producing Cranbrook’s best chances, the
fast pace and clever passing of St Aloysius’
strikers proved to be the defender’s Achilles’
heel and saw another goal sneak past the
usually reliable Ben McGrath. The second
half saw Cranbrook do a much better
offensive job. However the Aloys long and
through balls were still existent and troubled
the back line. After many attempts in the
Aloys box, Cranbrook received a penalty
after the goal-keeper rugby-tackled Joe
Mclachlan to the ground. In the absence of
our star striker, Jeremy Green stepped up to
the role of penalty taker and coolly slotted it
past the keeper right before full time. A sad
way to end the season, but everyone was
happy to have improved so much over the
many weeks of training and games.
Joe Garcia
7a
On Saturday Cranbrook was faced with a
tough adversary, Aloys. The boys walked
onto the field half asleep and Aloys scored
an easy goal that woke everyone up. With
renewed vigour, Cranbrook pushed forward
putting the opposition’s defense on the back
foot. Soon after, Asha Phillips managed to
get past their defense and put one past the
goalie after making an amazing run through
Aloys’ lines. The boys held their heads high
knowing how close they were to victory.
They fought for every ball putting in all their
effort but a slight lapse in concentration
led to another goal from Aloys in the dying
minutes of the game. From there Cranbrook
could do nothing to even the score and the
game ended at 2–1. Although the 7As were
defeated, I have high hopes for us next year.
Toby Tasker
resulTs
team opposition score goal scorers
1st xI St. Aloys 0-5 L -
2nd xI St. Aloys 0-2 L -
3rd xI St. Aloys 0-0 D -
4th xI St. Aloys 1-3 L A Robinson
5th xI St. Aloys 1-1 D M Williams
6th xI Riverview 0-7 L -
7th xI Barker 3-1 W P Richardson; A Macintosh-Evans (2)
10A St. Aloys 1-3 L F Holmes Stenback
10B St. Aloys 1-2 L J Green
10C St. Aloys 0-0 D -
10D St. Aloys 1-1 D T Ng
10E SBHS 1-6 L K Sun
9A St. Aloys 1-0 W S Rouse
9B St. Aloys 1-0 W L Reeves
9C St. Aloys 1-0 W H Lucas
9D St. Aloys 4-1 W B Wood (2); A Conrad; M Chung
9E SGS 0-10 L -
8A St. Aloys 2-1 W M Mangioni; M Papatheodorakis
8B St. Aloys 0-2 L -
8C St. Aloys 0-5L -
8D St. Aloys 0-3 L -
7A St. Aloys 1-2 L A Phillips
7B St. Aloys 1-2 L N Sant
7C St. Aloys 0-0 D -
7D St. Aloys 1-2 L T Richmond
7E Barker 3-3 D L Hutchin (2); H Hart
7d
Saturday’s football match against St Aloysius’
was a very memorable occasion in our
sporting portfolio and a spectacular finish
to the season. Cranbrook were up one point
thanks to the efforts of Tim Richmond, Dom
Au Yeung and Will Lazaris. However, Aloys
managed to sneak a goal and despite the
die hard effort of Alex Floyd, they managed
another goal and made an unexpected win.*
Charlie Fine
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