HANNAH PHILLIPS - YEAR 9

Emmi Daniel - Year 8

Jasmine Edwards - Year 9

Ella Mansfield - Year 10

The open boys team were feeling confident as they stepped onto the frozen Narellan turf. In a game against Holy Spirit captain Samuel Phillips linked up with hockey veteran Matthew Page to release Adam Staunton down the right side of the field for a great goal and a 1-0 victory. Eager to go the boys turned up for their second game and were pressured hard by St Josephs who had the better of the play, but they didn’t account for Riley Mason’s exquisite stick skills slotting home the winner the game again finishing 1-0. St Benedicts were next and unfairly actually had a lot of their team made up of actual hockey players; some great keeping by Noah Sheehan kept the score respectable Johnnies going down 4-0. 

Despite the last game the boys were feeling confident and apparently generous. Corpus hadn’t scored a goal yet so Arabici Talty decided to put one in for the opposition and another goal was scored from a deflected Johnnies stick 0-2. Many would see this as a loss but not this team adding 2 new goal scorers to the ever growing list. Due to goal difference we missed the semis and played off for 7th against Mt Carmel easily accounting for them 3-1 with Tom Brookes taking credit for at least 2 of these goals. Many thanks to Matthew Page, Thomas Brookes and Alexander Evans for umpiring on the day. All in all it must be said that hockey was the real winner on the day.    

On Thursday 20 June, St Johns 7-9 girls junior soccer team arrived at Towradgi soccer fields ready to go even after a some changes to the team and limited preparation. First up they were to play the top ranked Holy Spirit team in a knockout semi final. The girls continued warming up for the first 15 minutes of the game being pressed hard by a physical Holy Spirit team. As the game continued Johnnies got a better share of the ball and started to create their own chances.

After an inspiring half time talk and a few positional changes the girls continued to assert themselves on the game. The game played out pretty evenly with one of our best chances from Emily Grasso being blocked by the referee’s head, knocking his very stylish hat off. Holy Spirit pushed hard in the dying minutes scoring a very nice goal. Resulting in St Johns losing 1-0 to the eventual competition winners (3-0 against St Marys). Stand out performers on the day were Lexie Cooper in goals, Bridie Glover and Emily Grasso at the back, Hayley Short and Zahli Schellneger in the midfield and Lani Richardson and Hayley Glover upfront. Some real talent moving up into the senior team next year.