Ms Abdalla’s PE Blog

CAVENDISH 1 ETC 4
FRANCIS 1

MOM-PAUL WEATHERBY “True captains’ performance”

ETC 1 BISHOP BELL 6
BRIDGER 1.

MOM- JOE MARTIN

ETC 4 WILLINGDON 6

ETC have looked confident in the run up to this fixture, the girls have trained hard and the majority have shown great commitment. Jodie Nulty lead by example in Centre and drove the team in attacks and when defending. Again Willingdon have a very strong experienced squad so ETC needed to be on the ball for this game. At half time ETC were 2-1 up with Katie Booysen scoring for us. The 1st 5 minutes of the second half saw Willingdon come at us, ETC held off 3 or 4 attacks but they finally broke through Heather Charlton, Amy Stepney and Taz Adcock after about 7 minutes to equalise. From then on Willingdon scored another 4 goals, but ETC were still not down and out. 6-2 down the last couple of minutes saw some good attacking play from Laura Kosvic, Jodi, Katie and Shanice Weston to bring ETC back to 6-4. However with the clock ticking we ran out of time, another couple of minutes cold have seen ETC equalise. The girls played a superb match and have left us confident about the rest of the season.

MVP- JODIE NULTY “Great captain, and good work rate”.

ETC 4 WILLINGDON 2

ETC had only 6 players 15 minutes before the game, thankfully Sam Kelly (year 10) stepping in as GK with Willingdons consent and played very well. ETC made a fantastic start to the game. Willingdon are renowned for having strong Netball teams, so when ETC took the lead through Lola Olusanya, it filled the girls with a huge confidence that they could actually compete if not beat this team. Willingdon equalised just before the end of the first half, but ETC still looked comfortable in the game. The second half saw a great battle between the 2 teams; this is by far the best that ETC have played. Imagine how good they would be if they trained. Well done to all involved.

MVP- LOLA OLUSANYA “work rate and shooting was excellent” and JESS GOUVEIA “made a huge difference to our defence, marked extremely well and showed good ball distribution”.

ETC 2 CAUSEWAY 4
MOORE 1, FLAHERTY 1.

MOM “RICHARD ELLIS”

HAILSHAM 3 ETC 3

MULHERN 2, NEALEY 1

MOM- MATT MULHERN “2 great strikes”

ETC 0 CAVENDISH 8

ETC were put under pressure very early on into this match, with some good passing moves from Cavendish. 2 early goals in the 1st 15 minutes left ETC on the back foot, struggling to regain composure. Cavendish then went on to score another 3 before half time.
The second half saw ETC start to lift their game and compete with Cavendish, Barney Feek almost getting on the end of a couple of through balls, and Matt Veness getting a one on one with the keeper. However the difference between the 2 teams was the Cavendish Captain, he controlled all the play, and assisted another 3 goals for Cavendish to complete their victory.

MOM- MATT VENESS

RATTON 2 ETC 2
NEALEY 1, OZCAN 1
MOM- HARRY NEALEY

RATTON 2 ETC 2

OLUSANYA 1, OMAR 1.

A rocky start for ETC, it was clear in the first 5 minutes that Ratton relied heavily on one player to create chances for them. Without Hannah Blundell (captain) in central midfield, Jasmin Izzard was called upon to mark the Ratton threat out of the game.
The first half was very end to end, our only threat coming from Lauren Hughes corners, which unfortunately ETC could not get on the end of. Shots coming from Shantelle Omar, Lauren Hughes (captain), Immy Robinson and Jasmin Izzard could still not give ETC the lead. With all the attempts on goal, including a missed penalty; and the possession we had it was very disappointing to go in 0-0 at half time.

The second half saw Ratton come at us, forcing Charleigh Crotty to make 3 or 4 fantastic saves. Finally we got a break through 15 minutes into it, with a ball down the wing to Lola who then ran at Rattons defence, to release an early shot into the bottom right corner. Moments later ETC lost the ball in their own half for Rattons pacey left winger to run the ball all the way to ETCs goal for a tap in.

ETC lost some composure, losing possession again but this time to Rattons most influential player, who then went on to put Ratton 2-1 up.
With moments to go, ETC threw everything they could at them, Robinson coming close to equalise, and Omar hitting the post. A half chance then fell to Shantelle Omar just on the edge of the area, she hit the ball on the half volley that looped over the keeper into the top left corner. A very well taken goal, final score 2 all.

MOM: CHARLEIGH CROTTY “ETC could have lost this game by 3 or 4 goals, if it wasn’t for Charleighs saves”.

ETC 1 SEAFORD 6
DANNY RODFORD 1