HILLCREST SECONDARY SCHOOL Final HILLCREST MAG 2017 | Page 58

GIRLS’
SPORTS
U19 Girls’ Hockey
As the 2017 field hockey
league came to a final close,
it signalled the completion
of yet another five years with
the most amazing team of
year 13 girls. We shared a
passion, a dream, laughter
and tears along the way
and indeed we shared in
the completion of a journey
that began one cold August
day in 2012 when a group
of young students straight
from CE joined Hillcrest with
optimism and enthusiasm.
They have maintained the
same fire five years down the
line only that it burnt with
more rage as their journey
came to a close.
Their last match started
off with Hillcrest sounding
the board after ten minutes
of play through a Tamsyn
Arendse touch which
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Back Row Left: Kyela Brennan, Coral Hays, Teigist Taye
Aika Koikai
Yvonne Njoroge, Isha Haria, Talya Herd
Trishi Shah, Tamara Biwott
deflected into the bottom
right hand corner in a
characteristic field hockey
style; this was all after Pavan
Jandu and Talya Herd’s
spadework in the midfield.
There was more raiding by
the experienced and talented
Hillcrest School striking
force made up of Caitlin
Staley, Leila Field, Tamara
Biwott, Trishi Shah and
Yvonne Njoroge but all our
efforts were frustrated by the
Peponi School defence.
By the time the half time
whistle was blown, Hillcrest
was leading 1-0 but we all
knew this was not a safe
place to be in. We got back
into the game with the
knowledge that we needed
to score more goals. Coral
Hays went on a firing spree
sending balls into the D
but poor finishing was our
undoing. We were able to
amass numerous short
corners in the process and
again unfortunately we were
not able to convert any.
Our defenders Kyela
Brennan, Isha Haria, Hafsa
Mughal, Candice Madakadze,
Suhaila Adan and Teigist
Taye, played their hearts out
in their unenviable roles as
scorers.
Peponi utilised the few
chances that they had the
privilege of having inside
of our D area. Amidst a
goal mouth melee and our
dependable goal keeper Aika
Koikai endeavouring to keep
the ball at bay; by the time
the final whistle blew, the
score tally was 1-2 in favour
of Peponi.
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