Hi Panthers – what a weekend of hockey we had with some fantastic
performances through all grades with nail-biting finishes lots to write
this week.

 

Juniors

A huge weekend where you could turn up at any North shore hockey ground and likely to see a Ryde junior team playing!  
We had 11 juniors teams competing in semi finals over weekend and of
those eleven 8 progressed and booked a spot in the Grand Final in 2
weeks time!!!  Some very close games with 5 going into extra time!!

The other 3 teams to go into this weekend’s finals.

FRI 19:00 U15C Ryde Jaguars 4 vs GNS Blue 2 @Ryde
SAT 08:30 U13C Ryde Lions 3 vs Briars 2 @ P. Hills
SAT 10:00 U13B Ryde Tigers 2 GNS Blue 2 @P. Hills
 

Results

Age/ Team	Pool	Opponent	For	Against
U11 Ryde 1 Panthers	A	ND Gold 1	2	2
U11 Ryde 2 Tigers	B	ND Blue 2	1	1
U13 Ryde 1 Panthers	A	ND Gold 1	6	2
U13 Ryde 2 Tigers	B	Manly 2	1	2
U13 Ryde 3 Lions	C	Manly 3	1	2
U15 Ryde 1 Panthers	A	Sutherland	1	0
U15 Ryde 2 Tigers	B	GNS Red 1	2	2
U15 Ryde 4 Jaguars	C	B Hills White 1	4	0
U17 Ryde 1 Panthers	A	Briars/Glebe	5	2
U17 Ryde 2 Tigers	B	Briars 2	2	1
U17 Ryde 3 Lions	C	Briars 3	0	0

 

Women’s

Well what a year for our women’s teams with 6 out of the 7 teams
making the semi finals and 4th grade only missing out on goal averages!

Last round results:

Grade	Vs.	Score	Goal Scorers
1st	UNSW	7-0	Kirsten Pearce 3; Josie de Waal 2; Tegan Richards 1; Ash Ninness 1
2nd	Macarthur	3-4	Brittany Morrison 1; Jaimi Newman 1; Sonya Nicholl 1
3rd	UNSW	1-2	Letitia Cooper 1
4th	UNSW	1-0	Wendela Flokstra-Mesker 1
5th	Northern Districts	4-1	Kyleigh Harrison 1; Ina Cadorin 1; Marnee McKay 1; Bronte Owens 1
6th	Warringah	2-6	Rachel Cullen 2
7th	No game

Final standings: 
1st Grade – made the ML1 semi-finals for the first time ever finishing in 4th position
2nd Grade – strong all year were unlucky to finish in 2nd position
missing the minor premiership by 1 point after going to Macarthur
yesterday 3-4
3rd Grade – quiet achievers all year have snuck into 4th position
4th Grade – After triumphing over competition leaders with a goal in the
dying seconds 4th Grade finished equal 4th but missed out on goal
averages

Not to be outdone by our SWHL teams our three Sydney North sides all also finished within the top 4:
5th Grade – finished in 2nd position
6th Grade – finished in 2nd place, only losing  all year to arch rivals Warringah
7th Grade – also finished in 2nd position.

Finals Info
We have a huge weekend ahead with plenty of semi finals action so make sure you get out and support our Pantherettes!
 
All games Sunday:
1st Grade vs Sydney Uni 4.30pm at Homebush OP – MINOR SEMI
2nd Grade vs Macarthur 6pm at Homebush OP – MAJOR SEMI
3rd Grade vs Strikers 11am at Homebush OP – MINOR SEMI
5th Grade vs Briars 10.30am at Cintra – MAJOR SEMI
6th Grade vs Warringah 12.30pm at Ryde – MAJOR SEMI
7th Grade vs Nths Blue 2.15pm at Ryde – MAJOR SEMI

Full finals details can be accessed on the SWHL and SNWHA websites:
www.swhl.com.au
www.snwha.com.au
 

Mens

The men started the final series with 5 teams and at the end of the weekend 4 teams are still in the hunt.
1st Grade came out of the blocks early against St George and at the end
of the first 35 mins were 4-1 ahead… but St George mounted a spirited
challenge in the second half and the game went down to the wire with
Ryde defending hard in the last 10 mins to hold them out and finish 5-4.

5th Grade took the game into extra time with only 40 seconds to spare
but were desperately unlucky to concede a goal in the final few seconds
of overtime to finish the year with a 2-3 result.

If you look up ‘snatching victory from the jaws of defeat’ you might read “see the 6th Grade semi final”
Behind 0-1 in regular time with less than 20 seconds remaining they
evened up the score to 1-1 thanks to an penalty corner after the final
siren sending the match to over time.  Overtime came and went and then
into the new 1v1’s.   With 3 out of 5 attempts taken by both sides taken
Ryde was behind by 2 but thanks to some great keeping and attacking
skill levelled things back up to 2 each.  Then into sudden death 1v1.
 Ryde shooting second.  Cookie kept saving them, but it was on the 3rd
round that Jack Cullen slotted the winner to finally end the game and
reserve a space in the Grand Final in 2 weeks time.

8th grade and 9th grade were competing in the major semis our at Pennant
Hills and both had tough encounters going down 0-2 and 0-3 respectively
and duly exercising their privilege to play again in the preliminary
finals this weekend.

Results
1st Grade vs St George WIN 5-4 (Nick Bandurak 2, Tom Craig 2, Billy Shaw)
5th Grade vs UNSW loss 2-3 extra time (Mark Greaves, Wesley Maljaars)
6th Grade vs Mac Uni WIN 4-3 extra time and penalty shootout (Harrison Starkey , John Cullen, Jack Cullen, Richard Stevenson)
8th Grade vs Briars loss 0-2
9th Grade vs Bentstix loss 0-3

Games this weekend
1st Grade vs NWS 5:30pm @ Olympic
8th Grade vs GNS 3:45pm @ Cintra
9th Grade vs Mac Uni 2:15pm @ Cintra
 

Masters

The Masters lads have had the best year on record so far taking out the
Minor premiership in the A and B divisions and also qualifying for the
finals in the D division.  

Semi finals for this week are:

Tuesday 2nd September: 8-15pm  Macarthur (Team 3)  v Ryde D (Team 4) Pitch 2
Wednesday 3rd September 8-00pm Ryde B (Team 1)  v  Penrith (Team 2) Pitch 2
Wednesday 3rd September 8-15pm Ryde A (Team 1)  v  UTS (Team 2) Olympic