Bishops Castle Year 10's 1-2 Sundorne Schools Year 10's

Sundorne schools year 10 boys football team travelled to South Shropshire for the county plate tie against Bishops Castle last Monday where they won 2-1 to progress through to the next round.

The now year 10 team who came runners up in the county cup last year pictured
with manager Mr Street

        Sundorne were welcomed with the return of James Jehu, Matthew Richards and Will Wills who all missed the 2-1 victory over Grange the week earlier due to illness and injury. It was Sundorne who kicked off and started the game the brightest with some early chances at goal but the Bishops Castle 'keeper was on good form.   Bishops Castle had a few chances and Sundorne's Jamie Smith almost scored an own goal but it luckily missed the net and went out for a corner. It remained a tight first half with the home side improving as the game went on and it finished goalless at half time with Sundorne finishing the strongest after some good football on a poor pitch.
       However, despite a positive first half from the visitors, it was Bishops Castle who started the brighter and were rewarded for their good start.  Their right midfielder was allowed to run a long distance up the pitch, cut in and strike the ball past goalkeeper Wills to make it 1-0. Sundorne responded and kept their heads up playing some good football. James Jehu came on to replace Ashley Chater and Matthew Richards coming on  for Matty Parton with Ben Simmons going from left back to left midfield. James Jehu made an immediate impact with some great runs providing Sundorne with an attacking threat going down the wing. All the hard work payed off when Mark Murch played a great ball to Jehu who played it across the box, there was a bit of a scramble before Josh Hanks grabbed the equaliser. This gave Sundorne more confidence and started to play football again and attacking movement was becoming frequent. The hard work paid off when James Jehu received the ball in the box, headed it down to Josh Hanks who put it away for his second and to give Sundorne the lead with about three minutes to go.
      The game finished 2-1 to Sundorne, a reasonable performance and a very good result put them through to the next round of the County Plate. The team will take confidence from the victory and so far it has been a good start to the season.

By Jamie Smith.