Brent 5-4 Alexandra Park
Capital Girls’ League, 17th February 2018
Brent’s Under-10 Girls’ tasted victory in the Capital Girls’ League for the first time, just edging out Alexandra Park in an all-action encounter. The borough girls started brightly with Molly O’Connor scoring a superb hat-trick within 10 minutes.
Alexandra Park then staged a comeback and despite excellent defending from Maia Fox and two good saves by Georgie Stone in goal, the first half ended 3-2.
The second half was an end-to-end contest. O’Connor extended Brent’s lead with a powerful drive to make the score 4-2 but Alexandra Park piled on the pressure and levelled the score at 4-4.
Kate Fox and Olivia MacArthur began to get the upper hand in midfield and with minutes left Kathleen Santos Ferreira lost her marker to smash the ball into the net to score the winner with the game ending 5-4.
After the match, Brent Coach Patricia Taylor said: “I want to congratulate both teams on a brilliant match played in a brilliant spirit. I’m very proud if the players. They worked very hard for each other out there today”.
Brent: Maia and Kate Fox, Molly O’Connor, Olivia MacArthur, Kathleen Santos Ferreira, Georgie Stone