Cotgrave Colts 0 Hucknall Sports Whites 8

31 /10/09Saturday U11's
Division 2
Cotgrave Colts 0 Hucknall Sports Whites 8

Whites Romp to Victory
This weekend Hucknall Sports Whites travelled South to take on Cotgrave Colts in an U11's Saturday League 2 fixture. Both teams were entering into unfamiliar territory as they had never played each other before, but a great pitch and good weather ensured that everything was in place for a good game of football.

Hucknall came out of the starting blocks at their customary break-neck speed and a first half hat-trick from James Hallam along with a goal from strike-partner Oliver Bowley left Cotgrave stunned. Great inventive play from Ryan Towle and Jarrod Davies provided the intelligent passes for Hucknall's strikers to feed off and Hallam, a player on the top of his goal scoring form, blitz his way to his three goals.


Half time: Cotgrave Colts 0 Hucknall Sports Whites 4

Whites introduced Joshua Hart along side Hallam for the second half and also welcomed back Tyler Johnstone from injury to play in the left wing role. Hucknall midfield general Jarrod Davies was everywhere and broke up Cotgrave play time and again. He showed some wonderful vision also with passes that split the defence over and over again to continue the supply to his frontline and played a major part in three of the second half goals. Firstly Ryan Towle found space to power a low shot passed the Cotgrave keeper and then William Brown got in on the scoring with his first ever goal for the club with a neat header at the far post. Towle smashed another after intercepting a goal kick and Jacob Barlow capped off a fine show from Hucknall by firing into the roof of the net for the final goal of the match.

Final score: Cotgrave Colts 0 Hucknall Sports Whites 8

This was a wonderful performance by the entire team with the Defence of Mitch Davies, Harry Saxton and Dylan Smith once again showing what a class act they are and anything that did get passed them was quickly snuffed out by Keeper Kal Orton. The Midfield were strong and never let the opposition settle into their rhythm and finally our strikers were priceless, truly wonderful to watch.
Jarrod Davies can count himself very unlucky not to win the Man of the Match Award this week, but scoring a hat-trick for the second week running is worthy of any prize and for that the award went to James Hallam - absolutely awesome striking performance.