Shrewsbury Town Girls Centre of Excellence U10's

Stoke City v Shrewsbury Town

This weekend saw Shrewsbury travel to Stoke for their final game of the season in the hope of ending on a high, but their hopes were dampened before the start with the absences of 4 players including our top 2 scorers, but not to be deterred the girls set out with a strong and positive attitude which they maintained through to the end. Stoke forced the pressure early on with a few good attacks that were repelled by the strong but under fire defence of Alice Gibbons and Lucy Mckelvey, but eventually they broke through with the first goal of the match.

This gave the incentive for Shrewsbury to force their way back with a number of surges towards goal,and they came close when an accurate throw-in by Lucy found Hannah Bates in a good position only to have her shot hit the bar.It was then Stokes turn to return the play and they scored twice more towards the end of the period.The second period of the game basically belonged to Stoke with a stream of attacks being denied by the hard working defence and good stops by keeper Charlotte Edmunds but after rattling the goal posts on 3 occasions they finally broke through to score 2 more goals towards the end of this second period.

The third and final period was a more even affair with both teams sharing possesion. Shrewsbury had a few more chances to get back in the game late on, but it was not to be.

This match typified a number of games the girls had played this season,where all players involved had shown great strength of character and ability and proved what talented individuals they were,yet left the pitch without the victory's that they deserved.They can all be proud of their performances over this season and what steps they may have taken towards a future in the game.For the record they played 15 matches of which they won 6 and lost 9, and scored a total of 41 goals. with goals scored by as follows-

Jemma Smith-19.
Jessica Pugh-7.
Danni Prince-3,Nicole Ingham-3,Lucy Wilde-3.
Rebecca Davies-2
Alice Edwards-1,Megan Joseph-1.
own goals-2.