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Callington Ladies lift Cup for third year in a row

Last Friday we hosted our Womens County Cup Final sponsored by MH Goals at Wadebridge Town Football Club.

Callington Ladies of the South West Womens Premier Division took on Bude Town Ladies from the South West Womens Western Division in what was a tough game for both sides as the rain and wind battered Bodieve Park.

Ahead of the final the Cornwall Girls Advanced Coaching Centre hosted their training session (usually at Brannel School) at the club, the players were then delighted to be part of the final as ball girls and enjoyed watching a top women’s game from the side-lines. 

Just before kick off the rain eased off with the teams and match officials ready to come out of the tunnel and get the final underway.

The game started quickly with both teams looking to take an early lead, the opening stage of the game was even with Bude finding chances to counter attack but it was Callington that took the opportunity to go in front after just 10 minutes. Only minutes later they doubled their lead and soon after went on to score again putting themselves 3-0 up after just 35 minutes. The first half was topped off with another goal from Callington leaving Bude lots to do in the second half with the score standing at 4-0.

After an emphatic first half both teams came out looking settled but it didn’t take long before Callington added a 5th goal, after some lovely build up play they set up a simple finish around the Bude keeper. 

Bude continued to work hard to keep Callington at bay with some brilliant defending and some great work from their keeper who denied a number of goals with important saves. They also looked to grab a goal back a number of times when they broke into a quick counter attack but saw a number of long distance shots picked up confidently by Sara Rowe in goal.

Callington didn’t slow down and added more goals before the full time whistle with midfielder Lucy Jones completing a hatrick to top off her man of the match performance. The final score on the evening was 7 – 0 to Callington which crowned them County Champions for the 3rd year in a row.

Congratulations to our match officials on the evening, Matthew Probin the referee, Lucy Kane and Abigail Myatt assistants and Mark Hosking as fourth official.

A big thank you to Mark Harrod from MH Goals for presenting the player medals & trophy and also providing gift vouchers to the winners and runners-up which was a wonderful gesture from our Cup sponsor.

Finally, thank you to the Girls ACC players for being ball girls, the team mascots and the 250+ spectators who turned out in the awful weather to cheer on both teams!

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............................................................................................................. .......MARK HARROD FROM CUP SPONSOR MH GOALS 

....................................................................................................... PRESENTING TROPHY TO CALLINGTON LADIES PLAYERS