The 2010 CANA National Championships in Townsville were FANTASTIC !!!
The Presentation Night was also enjoyable.
The following players from AYC were selected in the Champion Teams:
U/13's - Sophie Saville, Emily Burn and Ashley Campbell
U/15's - Lauren Downward, Chelsea York, Emma Groves and Amy Rainbird
Masters - Marg Woolley, Cherie Howard, Cynthia Howard, Vicki Blackwell and Tracy Burn
CONGRATULATIONS to all who were selected - Well Done !!
The girls competed in the CANA National Championships U/15 GRAND FINAL against SAUCNA.
Although the girls were unable to beat SAUCNA in the two rostered games or the Second Semi Final on Friday, they started the first quarter with fantastic passing, FANTASTIC defence and superb accuracy when shooting for goal and went into the first break 7 goals up!!
Unfortunately, SAUCNA came out strongly in the second quarter and totally turned the game around after AYC made some changes and they were up by 5 goals at half time.
SAUCNA continued to pile on the goals and eventually won the game by 15 goals.
AYC did extremely well to make the Grand Final and thoroughly enjoyed the week of netball.
The AYC U/15 team played in the Preliminary Final against Corcoran Park Gold at 5pm today.
The girls started the game well, with strong passes, awesome defense and accurate shooting.
Emma Groves and Emily Miles combined well in defense and the Townsville team was under pressure from the "word go".
Bocky King and Nikayla Roach applied "body on body" pressure through the centre court and with Kalinda Gasparin playing in the WD position, these three centre court players were able to make space and feed the ball into the goalies (Chelsea York - GS and Lauren Downward - GA).
Players were rotated at half time and the team continued to pile on the goals.
The girls were extremely excited about their win and of course the prospect of being able to play in the GRAND FINAL tomorrow against SAUCNA.
Final Score: 37 -20
Best Players: Emma Groves, Emily Miles, Chelsea York & Lauren Downward
