Scotland`s youth in action

SCOTLAND  6  NORTH u21 2  – UNDER 18
CHALLENGE MATCH AT AUCHENHOWIE

Scotland`s under 18 girls completed the double over the North
U21 side with a convincing 6-2 victory at Auchenhowie, courtesy of
a hat-trick from CALA Edinburgh`s Amber McNeill.  Borders
Fjordhus` Emily Newlands opened with a penalty corner strike in 10
minutes, just after that McNeill beat two English players and fired
the ball into the top corner of the net.  Not long before the
interval Inverleith`s Sarah Jamieson made it three with a shot from
a narrow angle.

After the interval the English recovered some of their composure
and brought the score back to 3-2 ten minutes into the second
half.  The Scots went back into the attack and GHK`s Maisie
Morris deflected the ball into the roof of the net after a
well-planned penalty corner routine.   McNeill completed
her hat-trick in the final ten minutes, firstly she fired a reverse
stick shot into the roof of the net from the top of the circle,
then with two minutes to go McNeill scored with a rebound after
Jenny Eadie`s initial shot had been saved by the goalkeeper.

SCOTAND 3   ULSTER 3  –  UNDER 16
CHALLENGE MATCH AT INVERCLYDE

Honours were finally even between Scotland and Ulster`s under 16
boys, earlier both had won a game 3-1 and in the final
confrontation the sides finished with a thrilling 3-3
draw.   The Scots youngsters had the best of starts, in
three minutes at their first penalty corner Surbiton`s Alex Harper
slipped the rebound past the stranded goalkeeper after Andrew
Duff`s initial shot was blocked.  But by the interval the home
side found themselves 2-1 down, despite having several chances to
add to their total.

In 51 minutes the Scots were back level, the move was created by
Watsonians` Nickerson, the ball came to Harper whose pass through a
crowded circle found Ruairidh Gossart, he touched it on to Rory
Pritchard and the Glenalmond schoolboy stroked the ball home from
close range.   A stray pass up front led to an Ulster
counter-attack which gave the visitors a 3-2 lead.

In a dramatic closing couple of minutes, the initial shot at a
penalty corner was blocked and in the ensuing scramble to clear the
danger the ball fell kindly to Grossart who promptly smashed the
ball into the net for the equaliser.  The drama did not half
there, Duff had a late chance to steal a win but his effort went
narrowly wide and then the Irish were awarded an overtime penalty
corner but fortunately it came to nothing.

Coach Allan Law was delighted with the effort put in by his
squad and in particular the improvement shown over the
weekend.   There was praise also for development umpires
Gref Cunningham and Duncan Ruzzack who handled the games very
well.

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