News
Wednesday 3rd October 2007
Grays Athletic U14s vs Sydney United U14s
Grays Athletic will be playing a friendly match against Sydney United U14s Academy side at Charlton Athletic training ground at Sparrows Lane. Sydney United are on tour from Australia, they play Brentford on the 1st October and Fulham on the 4th October before travelling up North. The team coaches say this will be a great challenge to pitch a game against a team from the other side of the world.
Results
Under 18
EJA U18s South West
Grays Athletic 4 Southend Manor 2
Under 16
Grays Athletic U16A (Sponsored by Walkers) were meant to be playing away against Develop in the County Cup today but Develop couldn‘t field a side so Grays go straight through to the second round.
Essex County CUP
U16s Cassells Cup
Grays Athletic 0 Byron Red Star 4
Under 15
EJA U15s Western
East Thurrock 2 Grays Athletic 0
Chelmsford League 3
Brentwood Athletic B 4 Grays Athletic 2
Goalscorers: Lamb, Timothy
Grays Athletic suffered their second successive defeat, they went down 2-0 in the first 15minutes, on 20minutes Lamb let fly a superb 20yrd strike which wrong footed the keeper, then Timothy got onto a loose ball 10 mins from half-time to level the scores.
The second half saw Grays have several shots on goal but were denied each time, unfortunately Brentwood got their noses in front again and Grays seemed to put their heads down and allowed Brentwood to double their half time tally, Grays never stopped working but still could not find the back of the net.
Under 14
U14s Andrews Cup
Sungate 0 Grays Athletic 14
Under 12
Essex County Cup U12
Boca Youth B 0 Grays Athletic Youth 9
Goalcorers: Aaron(3), Josh(2), Lewis(2), James(2)
The scoreline shows the domination Grays enjoyed in this match.
Grays were 3 - 0 up within 10 minutes, and 4 - 0 up at half time.
Grays continued to press in the second half scoring a further 5 goals.
The scoreline would have been much higher but for Boca's offside trap working to some effect.
Under 10
U10 Echo League Trent Division
Grays Athletic 4 Barn Sports A 1
Goalscorers: Price, Stopher, OG, S.Pumfrett
The boys continued their good form with a comfortable win over Barn Sports. Price opened the scoring with a crisp shot that found the botton left hand corner and Stopher tapped in a second just before half time after a superb Bearman shot had hit the crossbar.
The boys came out for the second half but their two goal lead was soon cut in half by a successful penalty after Le^Rogers handled in the area.
The team dug in deep and they soon had a 2 goal cushion again when a Barn Sports defender put into his own net from a Grays corner.Still pressing Grays added a fourth when S.Pumfrett struck home to send the boys home in good spirits.
Man-of-the-Match M.Pumfrett
U10 Thundermite League
Grays Athletic Blue 1 Signet Tigers 1
Goalscorer: Bundock
For the second week running Grays dominated a game they should have won easily, but in the end were grateful for a draw. Following a goalless first half Signet went ahead from a corner headed in unchallenged. Grays continued to bombard the Signet goal but could not convert any of the numerous chances until the final kick of the game when Bundock hammered home from close range.
Under 8
Grays Athletic U8 Tigers (Sponsored by May Interiors Ltd)
LTD 0 Grays Athletic Tigers 1
Goalscorer: Alfie
Grays had to battle hard but earned another victory with Alfie scoring the only goal of the game and with Daniel getting man of the match.
Grays Athletic Lions (sponsored by Frankie and Benny's Lakeside)
Grays Athletic Lions 1 Corringham Cosmos Town 1
Goalscorer: Ben.O
Grays had an exciting game with both teams battling hard. At the end of the first half the score remained 0 - 0.
The boys went 1 - 0 up in the second half but Corringham continued to battle and got a goal back in the last few minutes.
The boys played really well and deserved a win.
well done boys. keep up the hard work.
Under 7
Harold Hill 2 Grays Athletic 2
Goalscorers: Mehmet, Tyler