We Really are the Champions!!!

With all of the SSWHA Grand-finals played today (Saturday 28th), Sutherland was involved in 3 out of the 4, and came in as Minor Premiers in all of them, although not always an easy run into the Grand-final.

We started off with our 3rd Grade Team, the Stingers, who lost the Semi-final to Tartans Tarts, two weeks ago and just squeeked though the Preliminary Final.  After trailing 0-1 at half time, our girls fought back to level it up at 1-1 at full time, and then in extra time, scored the winning goal, to give us our first Premiership of the day at 2-1.  It also set the tone for the rest of the day.

In the SEPL/1st Grade Grand-final, the Sutherland 1 team (Arangas) were again up against UNSW 1, who we easily beat in the Semi-final two weeks ago.  However, they had stepped up and had a hard fought game, again initially dropping behind 0-1, before fighting back to draw 1-1 at full time, and then again scoring the winning goal in extra time to win 2-1.  This gave us our second Premiership.

Following this, our 4th Grade team, the Blue Jags, were up against 3rd place Tartans Creme Puffs, who showed very strong defense.  While we had the best of the play and a number of shots, at half time the score was still 0-0.  In the second half, the game opened up and we quickly scored our first goal, although this was followed by Tartans scoring in response.  It took until the last 10 minutes for our girls to finally break away, with two quick goals to take the our third Premiership 3-1, and their second in two years.

So, out of the four womens grades, we took out 3 Premierships, showing what a strong womens club we have.

Congratulations to all involved.

Well, with 3 teams in action on Saturday trying to get into their Grand-finals, they certainly proved their metal, but finally had the law of averages catching up with them.

In SEPL/1st Grade, our girls scored first, but eventually concede an equaliser, forcing the game into extra time.  However, after 15 minutes, the two teams could not be separated ending with a 1-1 draw.  Unfortunately, as they were lower on the table, they were eliminated without losing.

In 2nd Grade, scoring was not a problem, but the scores went back and forth, finishing with a 2-2 draw at the end of extra time, and forcing another period of extra time.  Unfortunately, in this case with less than a minute to go, they conceded a goal and were suddenly out of the competition.

Finally, in 3rd Grade, a very tight game ended in 1-1 draw at the end of regular time, and yet a third game going into extra time.  And yet again, the game went right through to the end with no further score, and a drawn game at 1-1.  Luckily in this case, our girls were on top of the table, and hence went through to next week's Grand-final.

So, after a rough weekend, we look forward to next week's Grand-finals, with teams in three different grades.  Next Saturday we have:

11am: 3rd Grade: Sutho Stingers (vs Tartans Tarts)
1pm: 2nd Grade: no Sutho team (RSL Blues vs Tartans 2)
3pm: SEPL/1st Grade: Sutherland 1 (Arangas) (vs UNSW 1)
5pm: 4th Grade: Sutho Blue Jags (vs Tartans Creme Puffs)

Come and support them all.

We are the Champions!!!

With two well attended Junior Girls Grand-finals played on Friday night, on our Turf, we had excellent games with mixed results.

We started with our 2nd Grade team up against the Minor Premiers, Seacliff Stingers, and in a topsy turvy match that went from end to end and scores going 1 for 1, we eventually went down with 2-3 to a goal socred late in the 2nd half.  Our girls did us proud.

This was followed by the 1st Grade grand-final, where we as Minor Premiers, took on the RSL Rebels in another very tightly contested game, again going score for score.  Following a 1-1 score line at half time we took out the match and the Premiership 3-2, again with a goal late in the 2nd half.  See the full match report under the Games Reports.

And to follow this on Saturday, our 3rd Grade team, the Smurfettes battled the Tartans Cupcakes in their Grand-final, and after over an hour of play, ended up in a 1-1 draw, and as Joint Premiers.

That gives two Premiers and a runner-up out of the 5 grades we were in.

Congratulations all players.

Well a bit of a mixed result this weekend for our Women with 3 wins and 2 losses out of the 4 grades, but leaving all our teams still in the hunt, and 2 straight into the Grand Finals.  Meanwhile our Juniors had 2 wins and a loss (to the other Sutho team), so  we have our Juniors in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Grade Girls Grand-finals next week.  And not to be out done, our girls in ED3 also won their Semi to go straight into the Grand-final.

So our results were:

SEPL: Both teams (Sutherland 1 and Sutherland 2) won
2nd Grade: Wildcats lost
3rd Grade: Stingers lost
4th Grade: Blue Jags won

2nd Grade Juniors: Die Gewinners won
3rd Grade Juniors: Sutho Smurfettes def Sutho Stormers

ED3: Waratah won

So including our Juniors in their Grand-finals we have the following games next weekend:

Friday:
6:00pm: 2nd Grade Juniors: Sutho Die Gewinners
7:20pm: 1st Grade Juniors: Sutho Penguins

Saturday:
12:30pm: 2nd Grade: Sutho Wildcats
2:00pm: SEPL: Sutherland 2 (Blues)
3:30pm: 3rd Grade: Sutho Stingers
5:00pm: 4th Grade: (No Sutho teams)

plus we will have our 3rd Grade Juniors (Smurfettes) on at Jenola on Saturday morning.

So, a busy weekend, and lots of chances to support our women and girls.