Hallsy's Weekly Look Around the Academy

Worthing College Men's Football Performance Programme 1st XI progressed to the last 16 of the ECFA National Premier Cup after a tight cup tie, beating SEEVIC (Essex) 1-0 at the Basildon Sports Village. Lee Mottershead's diagonal pass was latched onto by fellow winger Ryan Fergany, who lobbed the ball over the advancing keeper and took a clattering in the process. The 2nd XI played Strodes in the BCS Performance League and were narrowly defeated 1-0 despite playing all the attractive football. Performance Programme Coach Dave Hall is looking forward to the upcoming fixtures as well as the future of the programme "Both teams this week performed admirably and I'm really looking forward to the next few weeks with league deciders and both County and National Cup matches still to be played. Its a delight to watch both teams playing attractive football and developing as individuals as well as a team, which is what this programme should all be about."

The Women's Performance Programme took on rivals South Downs College of Havant in the BCS Elite League and Worthing turned in an excellent performance to come out 11-3 winners. Sophie Frost, Aliss Pidduck both hit hat tricks, Darcey James and Kirstin McGregor also scored. The remaining three goals were scored by Lucy Somes, who scored these goals in the ten minutes she was on the field of play. Performance Coach Mike Bridges was extremely please with the performance of the whole squad, however special praise was saved for McGregor, who put in a very strong performance in the middle of the park.

The Rugby Performance Programme 1st XV warmed up well for their winner takes all match vs. SEEVIC next week by defeating Godalming College 38-8 in the BCS Elite League. Scorers on the day were Sam Bath, Lewis Maslen, Dec Peake, Sam Cook, Jack Roberts, Harry Green with Barney Lyons adding the extras. The 2nd XV learnt some valuable lessons against Chichester Colleges' 1st XV narrowly losing out 22-17. Josh Bath, Gage Pestridge and Rhys Thompson scored the tries with Gordon Coree adding the extras.

This week the Netball Performance Programme 1st team defeated Sussex Downs of Lewes 30-18 in the Sussex League, a match that Tina Price used her squad to the full as a few squad members were carrying injuries with Amelia Stubbs' ankle injury being a cause for concern with upcoming big fixtures to play in both locally and nationally.

Onwards & Upwards,

Hallsy