Saturday September 4th at Aldinga Football Club saw Happy Valley Under 16's get up by 2 points in an enthralling SFL 1st Semi Final.
In fine and windy conditions which made scoring difficult, Happy Valley outlasted Brighton in a classic final. Boys on both sides gave their all with Happy Valley prevailing. We have now extended our season by at least one more week when we meet Cove Football Club in the 2nd Preliminary Final at Port Noarlunga on Saturday the 11th of September at 9.30am.
It is just so great to see our boys many of them first year under 16's develop their skills, their sense of team play and carry out the game plan as they have over the past few weeks. This final was as close to a concentrated four quarter effort as they have played all year. With their effort the results are starting to fall our way.
As Allan Stringer so rightly put it last night at presentations, all this win has done is to give us the right to contest our next game avainst the Cobra's. By all means we will not get ahead of ourselves but get back to training on Tuesday night and work hard in preperation for the weekends game.
This was a great effort, having gone down twice to Brighton during the season, but gaining on them each time, the boys showed just how far they have developed and how much they needed to and have lifted their work rate. Their team play has been very good over the past two weeks, but will need to keep improving as we progress deeper into the finals series.
Special efforts were given all day from many players. A few ripper moments were Matthew Raitt's commitment to a 50/50 ball. He sprinted with eyes only for it, puched it forward out of the Brighton players grasp and continued on to get the ball again, turning a sure Brighton attack into a HVFC attack. Sam Bauers defensive action on Howie. Sam did not give him a sniff all day and required supreme discipline. Scott Kumnick and Todd Eshmade's work in the forward line, continually leading and taking hard marks and creating bone crunching contests. Beardy rucking all day and being disciplined enough to play the kick behind the play and to mop up many Brighton attacks. Beardy put body on the line in the last quarter with a great spoil over the boundary line taking the Brighton body with him. James Sexton's reading of the play and sure hands in defense and cool disposal. Tristan Cummings coming on off the bench and exploding with pace, taking marks and contesting against taller bigger bodies, and Jack Mesecke continuing to do all the hard things that win games of football.
I could go on and on, but it was the team effort that won the game for us. Now we turn to next week and we ensure that we prepare well, we are disciplined during the week and on Friday night and we take the same attitude into the preliminary final.
Great work lads, see you on the track.
Steve Davenport
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