St Ives Junior Development Day a success!

Game playing opportunities are hard to come by for the Junior section of SIHC and it was thus a great pleasure for St Ives to host their first Development day of the season

With teams visiting from City of Peterborough and Cambridge City, small 5 a side , 10 minute games were held with popup goals for the Under 8s, whilst 15 minute 6 or 7 a side quarter pitch games were held for the under 10s who all had a great time. Thanks for coming to our event COP and CCHC!

A big thanks to all of the helpers who umpired and chaperoned teams around for the day (Laura, Ben , Abby, Sarah , Hannah , Tracey , Oli , Kevin, Jack, Lee, and thanks to Megan and Mia for keeping the timings on track!)

Photo courtesy of Tristan from the Mens section, who flew over not realising we had an event on

Following the U8s and U10s, with no U12s teams able to visit, we held a Badgers game (so called because of the hair colour differences between the youth and the 'elder' players)

A line up of 5 adults and 9 juniors per team (4 adults on the pitch at a time) faced off in a beautiful sunset that soon became a foggy nightmare. The Green team went ahead early on thanks to Lilyanne. The bibs/white team then replied with an attack that saw a shot from Will saved by Mum Tracy, before Frankie lifted the ball over her to even things up. A second half goal from Jack Benham (attempting a pass) saw the green team win 2-1

Again, a big thanks to all the adults helping - Barry,Mo, Liz, Ben S, Ben B, Matt, Elaine, Stephen, Jack for playing, Oli for helping out with the umpiring, and a big thanks to Tracy for playing and organising the event somewhat last minute

Finally, a huge thank you to Junior Rep Nicola for organising the day and getting everything sorted - we couldn't do it without you and the juniors owe you a large drink!