b'THE ELLESMERIAN 125FootballU11Summary of Resultsour group we played three matches: we won our match against Woodside Primary- Won 41Altringham Preps B Team, we lost against The Ryleys School, and we Packwood- Won61drew with Stockport Grammar School. This meant we went through to Terra Nova 6-a-side Competition PLATE WINNERSthe Plate Competition. In our semi-final we beat Stafford 2-0 and then Ellesmere College 6-a-side Competition 3rd PLACEset up a final against Altringham. We eventually won this 1-0 after some Oswestry - Lost23good football from both teams.Packwood - Won21 Oswestry- Won 21This tournament had been good practice for our own 6-a-side competition. We did very well in this; we won three and drew one of our group matches, beating West House, Prenton Prep and Birchfield, The U11A team have had a pretty successful year. They have had aand drawing with The Firs. This meant we topped our group and went mixture of friendly fixtures and two tournaments. The focus has beenthrough to the semi-final of the main competition, against The Ryleys on developing skills, teamwork, and fitness. School. After normal and extra time the score was still 0-0 and therefore it went to penalties. We scored two, as did the opposition, We started the term off with a visit to Woodside Primary school inwhich meant it went to sudden death. Unfortunately, we missed ours Oswestry. There was a nice balance to the team, with Jake Hughesand the opposition scorednever a nice way to lose a match. playing well and very reliable in goal for us, and Harry Harrison andHowever, we did not have time to be too upset as we had to pick Ethan Harrison controlling things well at the back, Oliver Walker in theourselves up for the 3rd/4th place Play Off match. This went all the way middle of the park, and Dan Thelwell playing just ahead of him alongto penalties, but this time we scored our first two penalties and with Angus Leonard, Oscar Sahota, and Austin Furlong-Hart playing onBirchfield only scored one out of their three, which meant we were 3rd.the wings and up-front respectively. We made it final score 1-4 toThe final two matches were both return fixtures against schools we had Ellesmere. played earlier in the term. Packwood visited us and this was a much closer match than the previous one. We eventually edged it 2-1 and We travelled to Packwood school for our next match and again theboth teams played some good football. This left us our final match, away team gave a good account of themselves and secured a 1-6 win.to Oswestry, and this time we played better and much more as a team Following on from the Packwood match we played our first tournamentto eventually seal a 2-1 win. This was nice way to finish the term. of the term. This was a 6-a-side competition at Terra Nova School, a competition we had not played in before. It was a good test to seeILR where we were, as there were some big prep schools at this event. In'