The Chronicle

On Monday, we took a team of eight Junior 6 boys to Kidderminster to play in the Midlands ISA Football Tournament, with the incentive that if they could finish in the top four, they would qualify for the national finals, due to be played at St George’s Park, England’s national training centre. The morning schedule was tough, with quick-fire games coming every 10 minutes. Despite the challenging fixture list, each and every one of the boys played excellently, which resulted in five wins from five games and finishing first in their group.

As a result, Crackley played the second round of fixtures against all of the other group winners, yet another challenging set of fixtures. Despite losing their first game in the second round, the whole team showed exemplary determination and a high level of skill, winning their remaining games and ending as tournament runners-up. They were all then delighted to hear the news, that they had qualified to play at the national finals! Well done Leo, Dexter, George, Henry, Sid, Ollie, Jack and Leonardo.

Also a huge well done to Dixie Grammar for winning the event and thank you to all the organisers for providing the children with a wonderful competitive opportunity.

Our U10 A and B teams travelled to Spratton Hall School for a Hockey Sevens away fixture on Wednesday 10 November.

All the girls played with determination and displayed great team spirit and the scores didn’t reflect the play on the day.

The U10A team continue to make significant improvements and despite coming up against an unbeaten Spratton Hall team, they put in a strong performance. In their first match, they lost 4-1 but in their second match, their improved confidence resulted in a narrow 3-2 defeat. 

The B Team had much more possession in their match and just needed a little more luck to get the goals in.

It was a really excellent effort from all the girls.  

Playing for the A team were: Esme, Suzie, Nell, Julia, Olivia, Georgie, Penny and Chloe.

Playing for the B team were: Matilda, Emily, Sofi, Kate, Amalia, Jia, Jessica, Mairen and Grace.