A STRONG START

MYS BLUE STRIPES 3 NORTH BERWICK HAWKS 3 (25Aug07)

It was a momentous day as the Blue Stripes were playing our first league game at Wallyford. We started brightly and dominated possession and our pressure was rewarded with a goal from Keiron who took advantage of the goalie spilling the ball after he seemed to avert the danger of Cameron's driving run into the penalty box. Then just before the end of the first 15 minutes, North Berwick scored with more or less their first serious attack of the game, with a shot from just inside the box.

However this didn't put us off and we started the 2nd 15 minute period in the ascendancy and it wasn't long until we restored our lead courtesy of Jason who collected a pass from Darrell who was playing left midfield, and drilled the ball into the net. Rather than capitalise on our superior play, we again let North Berwick back into the game and lost an equalising goal in the 2nd period.

At the beginning of the 3rd period, we made a number of changes one of which saw Jack move to right midfield and Scott to the right of defence and this enabled Jack to drive forward and cause North Berwick real problems. It was one such run that seen him finish with a shot from just inside the right hand side of the penalty box which put us back into the lead. We seemed to have the game under control when there was a real mix up in our defence that gave North Berwick the chance to equalise.

Cameron had an opportunity to score right at the end but after doing all the hard work to get into position, he dragged the ball past the post. All in all, it was a very good result against a very good North Berwick team and all the boys should be proud of the way we played as a team. We made a number of positional changes throughout the game and all the boys coped with this very well.

Teamsheet: Owain, Jamie A, Jack, Jason G, Cameron, Jamie B, Keiron, Brendan, Darrell, Scott.

Goal scorers: Keiron, Jason G, Jack