Year 8 boys team are undefeated in SLAT Football Tournament

With there being four schools in South Lincolnshire Academies Trust, this provides us with the perfect opportunity for all four of the schools to compete in our very own SLAT sports tournaments.

This is the second year we have run the tournament, which takes place at Spalding Academy as this is a central location for all schools in the Trust to visit.

Our Year 8 football team were undefeated in the tournament, which was a round-robin format with all four schools playing each other once and all were very close games.

First up was Cowley Academy where it took a while for us to control the game and dictate the play, but we eventually we broke the deadlock with an excellent long-range effort from David Jedruszak. We continued to create chances and the final score was 1-0.

Our next game against Spalding Academy proved to be a midfield battle, which saw us end the game with a frustrating 0-0 draw where goalkeeper Isaac Briggs had very little to do.

As we went into the final game against Giles Academy, both teams knew it was winner takes all and a draw would be enough for Giles to win the tournament. We had a great start to the game taking an early two goal lead, but Giles fought back and managed to bring the score back to 2-2, which remained the final score and meant we were runners-up.

The whole team performance exceptionally well and all the players should be very proud for finishing the tournament unbeaten.