Glenelg Korfball Club

News of the week is disappointing in that it appears Sikopi are unable to continue with their Under 19 team and are looking to withdraw them from the competition.  This is a shame as they appeared to be quite competitive and were the runners up from last year.  Confirmation is still to be made by KSA but they have had to forfeit  the last couple of weeks.

A good game in A grade saw Sikopi just manage to beat NAKC with both teams scoring throughout the game, it was pretty even down to the wire, Sikopi missing three of their regular males for this game, but an old face in Kieran Ryan was welcomed back to help them out it seems.  Sikopi's experience may have just got them over the line on the day.  But NAKC have to be happy with their performance,  top scorers in the males were the two young players for NAKC in Adam Robertson with 7 (3 pen) and Daniel Crispe with 6 (1 pen), females was Sue Thalbourne from Sikopi with 4.

Boomers took on Glenelg in the other game and the first half was probably one Boomers want to forget?  Glenelg lifted their defence in this one and put some good pressure on the Boomers attack.  Boomers getting the shots but under pressure and unable to convert.  Glenelg couldn't maintain this into the second half though and Boomers started to play more freely and score what they had been missing.  Final score to Boomers 22-12.  Top scorers both from Boomers, James Tye and Megan O'Keefe with 5 each.

B Grade saw Boomers lose their first game for the season at the hands of Glenelg.  Boomers have suffered from fade outs in the second halves of their last few games and this was no exception.  Glenelg with a few decisions that went their way came up trumps in the last few minutes with 4 unanswered goals to seal the game at 15-13, Peter Corcoran (Boomers) with 6 and John Spurr (Glenelg) with 4.

Mitcham managed to put a full team on the court and showed that they are competitive when they do, only going down to Arista 14-17 (Although this game is under review as Arista, with the A grade bye, played two girls who played A grade the previous week) Allan Brown (Arista) and Blake Horrocks (Mitcham) with 5 each and Michelle Duffin (Arista) and Vanessa Braithwaite (Arista) with 3 each.

NAKC gained some revenge when they beat Sikopi 21-15; neither team had trouble scoring in this game with some good shooting throughout.  NAKC just shot better in the end, Daniel Papalia (NAKC) with 7 (1 pen), Jess Crispe (NAKC) and Ashlyn Wetherall (Sikopi) with 4 each.

C Grade saw a return to form for Boomers, with a couple of players back they managed to win a low scoring game at 12-3.  Mark Reichstein (Boomers) with 3 and Shannon Dodd (Boomers) with 2

Sikopi (Blue) took on Arista and after their untimely forfeit last week they came out firing; Sikopi scoring 18 and Tyson White got half of those with 9 (2 pen) Arista still managed 11 and Sharyn Bungey with more than half of them with 6 (1 pen) but 11 was not enough Sikopi comfortable at 18-11.

NAKC maintained their spot in equal first with a good win over Sikopi (Red) 18-14.  Again these two clubs showing that they can score goals (First C grade game this season with 30+ goals) Daniel Papalia (NAKC) with 6 (1 pen) and in what appears to be her first game of State League Korfball Megan Wilde (NAKC) with 5.

Under 19 saw only the one game with Glenelg v Bitcham (Boomers/Mitcham combined team) with the game going goal for goal throughout it was Bitcham who held onto a slim lead for the last few minutes, but Glenelg grabbed the extra point with a last ditch effort to get an 8-8 result.  Blake Horrocks (Bitcham) with 3.

In the other Under 19 game, Sikopi forfieted to NAKC.

We are almost half way through the season and I'm thinking that our intrepid little korfballers (in our Under 13's) that are playing each week are ready for a little bit in print.  So if someone can fill out some team sheets for the games we will gladly include them.  

Whilst on team sheets, some clubs are slipping back into old habits with just first names on the sheets, this makes it very difficult to accurately record information and makes it much harder than it should be.

Please take the time to write players full names, if you don't know it then find out, it would be a shame to have to forfeit a game because someone was to lazy to ask.