Northwood records historic win over Clifton
Northwood win nailbiting match by 8 goals to 7.
NORTHWOOD School’s first waterpolo team played Clifton recently and recorded a historic win over their more illustrious visitors. The local school has been gaining confidence after their recent tours to the Grey Bloem Itec waterpolo tournament and the Vides waterpolo tournament, hosted in Bloemfontein and East London respectively.
The match was played at Clifton and started well with good attacking opportunities being created on both ends of the pool. Clifton opened the scoring to lead 1 – 0 after two minutes, and Northwood replied on the next attack. Both teams exchanged blows and at the end of the first chukka the score was tied at 2 all.
The second chukka was the ultimate game changer again: Clifton converted first to take the lead but during the chukka Northwood put three consecutive goals in while Clifton ended strong with the score 5 – 4 in favour of Northwood.
The third chukka was even at one a piece with tactical time-outs being called on both sides. Northwood led going into the fourth chukka 6 – 5.
In the last chukka Northwood showed composure by slowing down the game and running down the clock. Clifton converted to take the game to six all. Again the young Northwood team fought tenaciously for every scrap and took the score to 8 – 6 with one min 30 seconds on the clock.
Clifton pushed us all the way to the end and were rewarded with a goal in the dying seconds to pull the score to 8 – 7 in favour of Northwood.
Goal scorers: Justin Snyman (two goals), Mark Fourche (two goals), Ryan Symington (two goals), Criag Van Leeuwen (one goal) and Stratten Kennedy (one goal).
