Just to let you know that the under 7's white team had an excellent day out at Cotgraves 6-a-side tournament with our side reaching the final of the cup competition which unfortunately they lost to an excellent Toton Tigers side 2-0.

 

Group Matches

The day got off to the best possible start when Sports beat one of the favourites for the tournament Carlton Town 1-0. In the 2nd match against Vernon Colts, Sports played the 3 players that didn't feature in the 1st match plus 3 others  but lost 1-0. However, they all had an excellent game.  The third and final group game was against Pegasus which we won 2-0. Having won 2 and lost 1 we came third in our group on goal difference and had to wait to find out who we had got from group B in the 1/4 final This turned out to be the hosts Cotgrave.

 

Quarter Final

 

As the 1/4 final got under way Cotgrave got the early goal but this only acted as the spur that Hucknall needed and they went on to score 4 unanswered goals to advance into the semi final against Carlton who they had beaten in the 1st game of the competition.

Semi Final

 

The semi final was a great game with both side going close to scoring the important goal that would put them into the final and to be fair Carlton should have scored late on in the 2nd half but for some heroic defending by Andrew Shaw  that kept Hucknall in the competition. As the final whistle blew the rules said that each side had to take 1 player off for the 5 minute golden goal period, Both Mark and Chris decided to take defender Thomas Shaw off and go for all out attack and this paid off with Kieran Sheppard scoring the goal that put Hucknall into the final.

 

The Final

 

Once we had got to the final both mark and Chris decided that every player would get a game in the final as every player deserved to be in it and to everyones credit they accepted this and although we lost 2-0 everyone associated to the whites side thoroughly enjoyed the day out and to this both Mark, Chris plus the parents and families of the boys from Hucknall Sports White team would like to thank Cotgrave FC for putting on a excellent tournament.