Five Finals; Well Done Winston!
"On Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd April, the schools Football District Finals took place at Woking FC. The event sees the best 2 teams from the district battle it out to be crowned district champions. This year saw Winston reach a remarkable five finals out of a possible eight. This is a great effort as last year we only had two teams involved.
The Year 11 boys were up against a good Salesian side who were the current holders of the competition. They managed to create some good opportunities but unfortunately went 2-0 down. They managed to respond with a great goal from Moby. This left them 2-1 down with five minutes to go so they really pushed forward to try and get the equaliser. Unfortunately, they got caught on two counter attacks and lost the game 4-1. It was a great ending to the boys' time here at Winston.
Next up was the Year 9 boys which meant Mr Martin had managed 2/2 teams to the final. However his team were fairly beaten by a very good and organised Salesian school. The boys were beaten 4-1 but goal of the day was achieved by Aiden Watson in this match with a goal from 25-30 yards.
The third of the Winston teams to compete in the finals was our Year 7 boys team.
THEY ARE DISTRICT FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS!!!!
A massive congratulations to the Year 7 Boys who managed to win 2-1.
They have demonstrated fantastic discipline and levels of skill this year so a win is a justified result. A special mention to Max who caused the opposing team a constant headache with numerous dangerous runs. Hopefully this is the first of many for this talented team and Mr Fuller as team manager!
Tuesday saw the remaining two Winston teams go for Gold at the Kingfield Stadium. The Year 8 boys were up first and faced a Woking high team who they had drawn with 3-3 earlier on in the season. The team had gone unbeaten throughout the district league so the boys were confident going into the final. However, sport often throws up many twists and turns, and this final was no different. We found ourselves 2-0 down after two quick breaks from the opposition. The second half was a much better performance from the boys but still ended up on the wrong side of a 3-1 scoreline.
The final match of the day was between our Year8/9 Girls and Woking High. Mr Phillips and Mr Inwards have put in a tremendous amount of work with these girls and they have been extremely committed to training throughout the year. The match was a nailbiter and saw some big chances at both ends being squandered. Woking High had a very good attacking player but she was nullified by Winstons' fantastic defensive line. The match ended 0-0 which meant one thing.....penalties. The shoot out took place in front of the main stand at Woking and went all the way to sudden death. Unfortunately, Winston just missed out and collected second place but it's important to note, that most the girls were competing with the year group up. So next year, we have really high hopes for the girls!!
Finally, the tournament was run by Winston and we took 5 Year 9's to help organise the day. The boys who helped out were a credit to the school and announced teams/results through the PA system, whilst the others collected money on the front desk from spectators. Seb, Will, Jorge, Morgan, Lucas and Harry were fantastic and should be extremely proud.
We also took some Year 7's to be ball boys and they flourished in the opportunity and had smiles on their faces all day!
All in all, Winston did fantastically this year and the PE Department would like to thank all the players for their commitment and efforts this year.
Mr Jones
