CCWHA

Crookwell held it's annual Jnr Girls carnival last weekend (22/5/2011).  We were all prewarned by CHA to bring our winter woollies as the weather had been getting quite chilly but they turned on an absolutely glorious day just for the event.

The girls were slated to play Sydney, ACT and Crookwell and they were looking forward to the challenge.  The Goulburn carnival the week before had been a good learning experience for them and were looking to put lessons into practice.

Campbelltown won their 1st 2 games against Sydney & ACT and drew 1-1 against Crookwell putting them top of the ladder.  The playoffs were 1v4 (Campbelltown vs ACT) and 2v3 (Crookwell v Sydney) with Campbelltown and Crookwell winning their respective semis.

It was very exciting waiting for the time to pass until game time.  As we'd played Crookwell already the girls knew it was going to be a hard game.  Ther first game had been quite physical with Hanna and Emilia being bowled over on numerous occassions and Crookwell trying to bustle us off the ball with their aggressiveness.  Well, it was a good lesson learnt by the Campbelltown Girls and Crookwell was in for a big shock.  Our girls lined up and were ready to take the fight to Crookwell.  The 15's were determined to win and weren't going to let Crookwell browbeat them. 

The words Aggression, Speed, Width, Leading, Triangles, Communication & Teamwork to mention just a few all took on new meaning. 

To see & hear the girls calling to each other, encouraging each other, to see the determined look on their faces was a sight to see.

At full time with no score on the board we all started frantically looking at the carnival rules to see what was to happen next.  An offical told us we had to play 5 minutes extra time - NO golden goal (contrary to the rules we'd been looking at) but the girls shrugged that off and just wanted to get on with it.

5 minutes has never seemed so long.  The whole game was perhaps 60-40 Campbelltowns way but we still couldn't score.  At the end of the 5 minutes with still no score Campbelltown was declared the winner as we'd gone through top of the round games.

After a few seconds stunned silence the cheering started.  It's been a long time between drinks for the 15's but they've certainly come good just at the right time.

Well done girls, I'm so very proud of all of you.

LOOKOUT ARMIDALE - HERE COMES CAMPBELLTOWN

Congratulations girls on a hard fought game.  The score line of 1-2 against Sutherland in no way reflects the game.  You can all hold your heads high & proud.  It was obvious that you all learned "something" from the Goulburn carnival and were able to put that to use in tonights game.  I'm very proud of all of you with the way you played.  Good work Bella on your "first to the ball" attitude.  Nice tackles Emilia in the 2nd half - very strong (and you're not crowding - good girl). Melanie, nice to see that "tap & run" can work but remember - beat one player and pass off.  Nice work Hannah & Renae in the mid field - your leadership shows the way.  Hope to see you all at training on Thursday night.

Glenn Langley