News & Results Sunday 9th March 2008
March 09, 2008
Results
Under 16
Eastern Junior Alliance
Enfield Town 0 Grays Athletic 3
Goalscorers: Glover, Cooper, Hall
Chelmsford League
Barn Sports 3 Grays Athletic U16B 1
Goalscorer: Awe
A hard fought game from Grays but something just didn‘t click and the result showed this full time score Barn Sports 3 - 1 Grays Athletic
Man Of The Match: Joe Gander-Cox & Andrew Ward
Corringham Cosmos U16A 7 Grays Athletic U16A 2
Goalscorer: Steven
Definitely a game of two halves today. We lost the first half 5-0 and drew the second half 2-2. A very poor performance from our boys, no-one seemed to have their football head on at all.
Under 15
Chelmsford League
Grays Athletic 1 Brandon Groves 5
Goalscorer: Fenn
This was certainly a game of two halves, Grays played some sublime football in the first half and dominated the game, there were a few missed chances but Fenn opened the scoring midway through the half, the game was 1-0 at half time.
The second half Grays seemed to forget how to play, several missed tackles, headers etc cost them in the second half as Brandon Groves started to take the game to Grays, their tenacity paid off and they opened Grays up to dominate the second half with Grays conceding 5 goals.
Time is running out for Grays if they want to get themselves out of the bottom three and to salvage something from this season.
Eastern Junior Alliance
Grays Athletic 2 North Greenford 4
Goalscorers: Eggleton, Donner
Under 10
Echo League Trent Division
Rippleway “B” 0 Grays Athletic 3
Goalscorers: Price, Klessa-Smith, Le^Rogers
C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N-S C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N-S. That was the cry that echoed around West Ham Memorial Park today as Grays beat second-placed Rippleway in our penultimate match of the season, to clinch the championship.
The game was expected to be tough with both teams vying for top place but in the end Grays came out comfortable winners. The nerves were settled after 6 minutes when Bearman collected the ball in defence and slotted the ball along the line to Stopher who looked up and saw Klessa-Smith free in the area. A neat pass from Stopher was then clinically finished by Klessa-Smith in the bottom corner. Several chances from Price went agonisingly over the bar and the score stayed the same at half-time.
With so much at stake Rippleway came out even stronger in the second-half and tackles were flying in but Grays soon doubled their lead 5 minutes in. Le^Rogers took a throw-in which Price collected and in one swift movement he turned and unleashed a shot which sailed past the opposing keeper. Rippleway still sensed a comeback after hitting the crossbar with a long shot but then Klessa-Smith almost sealed the win for Grays but his shot also hit the bar. Klessa-Smith left the field ,injuring his wrist after a late tackle. This lead to the Rippleway player being asked to leave the pitch by the referee. But then the superb win was sealed when a clearance up field was collected by S.Pumfrett who laid the ball back to Edmunds. His pass through the Rippleway defence was collected by Le^Rogers who calmly slotted home netting his first league goal of the season. What a great time to get it !!!
At the finish the boys were ecstatic and they have deserved this trophy after a shaky start to the season (one loss and one draw in their first 2 games). This was turned around magnificently with a lot of hard work and effort and no further games were lost. With the best scoring record in the league (68 goals in 21 matches) and the best defensive record also (13 goals conceded in 21 games) it was no surprise that Grays Athletic U10‘s were crowned ECHO LEAGUE TRENT DIVISION CHAMPIONS 2007/08.
WELL DONE TO ALL THE BOYS, MANAGEMENT AND ALSO TO THE PARENTS FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND CONTRIBUTIONS THROUGHOUT THE SEASON.
Last League Game is at home to County Park
Man-of-the-Match: Bearman
Under 8
Grays Athletic Tigers
Sponsored by May Interiors Ltd
Grays Athletic Tigers 0 Trinity Utd 0
Our first home game since Brian lost his daughter Katie in a tragic car accident so we wore pink arm bands and held a minutes silence which everyone observed.
Thank you to Trinty Utd for your respect today it was very much appreceiated.
This was a great game which again ended in a draw between both teams
Man Of The Match: Conner
Grays Athletic U8 Lions (sponsored by Frankie and Benny's Lakeside)
Grays Athletic Lions 1 Corringham Cosmos Town 0
Goalscorer: Samuel
Grays played one of the top four teams this week and came out with the win. Both teams played a strong game but with good passing Samuel put the ball in the back of the net 8 minutes in.
The second half see the Grays boys come out with their heads held high but Coringham continued to battle hard, which kept Charlie busy and having to make lots of outstanding saves.
Well done boys, keep up the hard work.
Under 7
Grays Athletic 0 Dunton Dynamos 2
Grays were poor today as we failed to compete with Dunton. We must improve on this result, we are better than this. We did create some chances and had our finishing been better we may have nicked it. Come on lads where‘s your fight gone...
Man of the Match: Connar..did well while others stuggled around him.
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