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Match Report – U/19 Girls Scottish League – DWPC-MHill v Warrender
Sat 1st February 2025 – Olympia Dundee.
After two match postponements in November 2024, DWPC/M’Hill started their 24-25 Scottish U/19 girls WP League season with an 8-11 defeat to Warrender in a closely contested encounter. Missing two of the team’s most experienced players in Lucy and Kayleigh G, it was positive that we were still able to field a young team of 13 players.
Per 1: We made a strong start with Millie scoring within the 1st minute but gradually Warrender came back into the game with strong Press defence that our lack of driving failed to penetrate and also resulted in 6 possession turnovers. Warrender, growing in confidence, equalised in the middle of the period and then scored again from a 6v 5 to lead 1-2 at the end of the period.
Per 2: The trend of low tempo attacking and losing possession against a heavy press defence continued as Warrender extended their lead with 2 quick goals. Lottie then scored with a nice back hook to reduce arrears to two but Warrender scored again. Both teams then missed 6 v 5 opportunities for Warrender to lead 2-5 at half time.
Per 3: We made another slow start to the period with further possession turnovers allowing Warrender to score twice to lead 2-7. With the game looking like it was fading away, we at last positively upped our work rate considerably with determined pressing, fighting for the ball and counter attacking to score 4 goals without reply through Millie (2), Ava and Eleanor from a well earned penalty to trail by only one, 6-7 at the three quarter stage. A great comeback effort.
Per 4: Our positive play continued at the start of this period as we scored twice to lead the game for the first time at 8-7 through Kayla and a 2nd penalty from Eleanor. Then followed probably the most disappointing part of the game as we let Warrender back into the contest with an inability to keep possession and find the free player on the counter attack, miss good shooting opportunities, adopt poor body positions when defending 1 on 1 allowing the player on the ball to spin inside and get a shot away and frustratingly failing to secure the ball after making a save or a steal to give Warrender a second shot/possession. This resulted in Warrender scoring the last 4 goals of the contest to win 8-11.
Game positives:
- After a very sluggish start and a first half where we struggled to keep possession and get forward to pose attacking threat, the team deserves great credit for upping their work rate and competitiveness to come back from 2-7 down to lead 8-7 at the start of the 4th
- We counter attacked with real energy in the second half of the game creating and taking several goal scoring opportunities.
- By working together in defence with a mixture of good saves and steals we made it much more difficult for Warrender to score in period 3 and for the first half of period r4.
Areas to work on:
- Being able to release to receive the ball under close marking pressure and then kick up to pass or gain a foul much quicker.
- On gaining possession and springing the counter-attack, trailing players should move to make themselves available for the ball from the GK to ensure we can get the ball to the lead break before the defence can get back to cover.
- As a team, try to maintain our attacking perimeter shape to provide close support for the ball carrier, space to drive into and clear passing lanes to the centre forward.
- Finding the free player quicker in man-up to get a quick shot away or if no quick pass is on, move into our attacking formation quickly (3:3 or 4:2)
- Always be aware of where the ball is when defending so that you may move to make steals. Shorten and quicken your stroke when contesting to secure a rebound or short pass.
- If caught behind a driving player shadow their movements but do not foul and concede exclusion or a penalty.
- Hopefully we can get as many of our U/19 players as possible to training at Carnegie on Saturday 22nd February to allow us to work on these areas.
Match statistics:
Per 1: 1-2
Per 2: 1-3 – (2-5)
Per 3: 4-2 – (6-7)
Per 4: 2-4 – (8-11)
8 shots scored from 24 taken. (33%)
2 penalties gained - 2 scored, 3 exclusions gained – 0 scored -
1 penalty conceded – 1 scored, 2 exclusions conceded - 1 goal lost (50%)
Possession lost: 19/44 – (43%) - Possession gained. 11/44 – (25%)
Team: Goals & Exclusions in brackets.
- Eve (GK), 2. E Livie (1 exc), 3. Ava T (1), 4. G Thomson Grieve, 5. Millie Wishart (3) (1 exc), Eleanor C (2 pens), 7. Aimee S, 8. Libby W, 9. Libby D (1 pen conceded), 10. Lottie A (1) 11. Kayla R (1), 12. Ruby R (1), Ksenia M,
U15 (2010+) Boys Scottish Champs
Congratulations to Dunfermline Water Polo Club U15 (2010+) boys - silver medalists in the Scottish Championships
Game 1
Dunfermline 3-2 Stingrays
James (2), John (1)
Next up Group Decider vs Menzieshill
DWPC 5-0 MZH
Euan (3), James (2)
Next up Semi Final vs Stingrays
SF DWPC 9-5 Stingrays
John (4), Zeti (1), Dev (1), Euan (1), James (2)
Next up
Championship Final DWPC vs Warrender Gold
Final Score Warr 14 - DWPC 6
Congratulations to all 10 boys today. They should be incredibly proud of their performances and resilience shown today.
Starting the day with a young and inexperienced squad of 10, each game was expected to be a tough challenge.
To go all the way to the final and then go toe to toe with a Warrender team stacked full of 2010s and made up mostly of NDS U16 squad members was a fantastic achievement. It was a tough start with Warrender racing into a quickfire 4-0 lead, but the boys dug and scored some fantastic goals to get back into the game 7-3 down at HT. Warrender's bigger bench and older players started to take its toll on the boys as they started to tire, but they kept digging in and fighting back. The game ended 14-6 with John and James each bagging a hat-trick, and the boys taking a very well deserved Silver medal 🥈 🤽🏻♂💙💪
1. Aaron
2. Logan
3. Toby
4. John
5. Zeti
6. Billy
7. Dev
8. Euan
9. Luke
10. James
Scottish Champs for 2010+ Female - Match Report
U/15 Girls Scottish Water Polo Championships – Sun 12th January 2025 – NSA Stirling
Very well done to the DWPC U/15 girls team who have secured an excellent Bronze medal at the Scottish U/15 Girls Championships at the weekend.
Fielding 10 players of varying levels of experience, the team worked really hard in each of the 4 group games to have a win two (v Portobello and Aberdeen) and lose two (to Menzieshill and Warrender) record to qualify in 3rd place to then play Menzieshill in the semi-final. Having lost 2-5 to the Dundee team in the Group stage this was always going to be a very difficult game but fair play to the girls as they worked tirelessly, defended and saved excellently and then attacked cleverly to force a 3-3 draw in a tense and exciting encounter to take the game into a penalty shoot out. Unfortunately, we missed two pens against a tall and commanding GK to lose the shootout 2-3. Congratulations to M’Hill on their win.
In the 3rd place play-off we then played a young Portobello team where all of our younger and less experienced players enjoyed extended water time and contributed significantly to an 11-4 win. Throughout the afternoon, all girls made a positive contribution to this bronze medal achievement with every outfield player scoring at least 1 goal and attacked and defended with energy and determination.
Congratulations to Eve and Ava for winning the best GK and highest scorer in the tournament respectively.
Finally, congratulations too to deserved winners Warrender who beat M’Hill (who were hampered by the loss of Kayla Reeve due to injury) 7-4 in the final.
- Group games: 1 to 10: 8 mins running time.
- Championship play-off games: 11 to 14: – 2 x 6 min check time
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