{"id":2517,"date":"2015-06-25T12:37:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T02:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballinasoccer.com.au\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2015-06-25T12:37:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T02:37:27","slug":"match-reports-fri-196-sat-20615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ballinasoccer.com.au\/?p=2517","title":{"rendered":"Match Reports (Fri 19\/6 &#038; Sat 20\/6\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Grade 16<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 16s (opens) had a game at home on Friday night against Lennox Head. \u00a0It had been 3 weeks since anyone in our team had played a game and for 2 of our players, 6 weeks! \u00a0They were perhaps a little flat in the first half and when Lennox scored 3 goals in a five minute block to make the score 4 &#8211; 0 before half time their heads went a bit down. \u00a0However the team put in a big effort in the second half to show their undeniable character and to give a much better indication of how they can play. \u00a0The second half finished 2 &#8211; 2 so 6 &#8211; 2 in total. Good work between Zane &amp; Kye saw them each score a goal and make an assist. \u00a0Everyone worked hard and really put in especially in the second half. Well done all!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Grade 13 (South)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the return of all players Ballina fielded its full squad winning out over Nimbin 7-1. \u00a0With a wealth of talent we were spoilt for choice on who to play where. \u00a0A good place to be for coaches when you have lots of options.\u00a0 There was plenty of great lead up work with many passing combinations leading to excellent goals.\u00a0 Well done team, looking forward to our Thistles match next week.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Grade 11 Ospreys<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Talk about a nail biting finish this week.\u00a0 We went down 4-3 due to an unavoidable penalty kick.\u00a0 The entire team worked hard this week, proving to themselves that you can come back from behind if you just stick to the plan.\u00a0 Defence was again the highlight especially from Lachlan and Michael.\u00a0 Mitchell and Travis surprised themselves in goal despite some very obvious nerves.\u00a0 Awards this week go to Sam, for an amazing goal over the top and into the back of the net and to Taj for his ability to switch from attack to defence whenever he was needed.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t get a report through last week so we also need to mention last week&#8217;s winners Michael and Lachlan for their massive defensive effort against Alstonville.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grade 16 The 16s (opens) had a game at home on Friday night against Lennox Head. \u00a0It had been 3 weeks since anyone in our team had played a game and for 2 of our players, 6 weeks! \u00a0They were perhaps a little flat in the first half and when Lennox scored 3 goals in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-juniors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballinasoccer.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballinasoccer.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballinasoccer.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballinasoccer.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballinasoccer.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballinasoccer.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballinasoccer.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballinasoccer.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballinasoccer.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballinasoccer.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}