Blacktown International Sportspark was a hive activity over the weekend with the finals of the Women’s Winter League as well as the finals of both the male and female Development Leagues.

 

The Women’s Winter League Final was played between Manly Eagles who were straight inot the final and Hawks. Manly Eagles were too good and won 3 – 2 in a very hard fought game. In the Plate Final Hills beat Phoenix 5 – 4 in another close game.

Final Placings were:

1st Manly Eagles

2nd Hawks

3rd Sharks

4th Wanderers

5th Hills (Plate Winners)

6th Phoenix

7th Tigers

8th St Lukes

9th Scorpions

10th Manly All Stars

 

Team MVPs were:

Hawks – Kandra Lamb

Hills – Brianne Honeybrook

Manly All Stars – Jessica Rooke

Manly Eagles – Montana Kearnes

Phoenix – Jorja Barrett

St Lukes Patriots – Taylor Rippon

Scorpions – Renee Piere

Sharks – Sarah Diener

Tigers – TeAroha Nicholson

Wanderers – Rebecca Jayawardane

 

The Development League for both Males and Females was played for the first time in 2015 with 7 teams in the Females and 5 in the Males which was a great start to the league which forms part of the state pathway.

 

The Girls final was between MIsfits and Norwest with Norwest taking the lead and never looking back running out winners 6 – 1.

Final Placings were:

1st Norwest

2nd Misfits

3rd Macarthur

4th Hills

5th Sweet Heat

6th Southern Angels

7th Country

 

Team MVPs were:

Country – Annaleise Nohotima

Hills – Emily Paull

Macarthur – Isabelle Maher

Misfits – Georgia Britton

Norwest – Emily Peters

Southern Angels – Amber Gunn

Sweet Heat – Numi Chambers

 

The Male Development League Final was between the Black Team and the Blue Team. The Black Team went straight through to the final after finishing on top after the rounds with Blue playing Red for the right to play Black in the Final. In the final game of the weekend Black beat Blue 5 – 3.

Final Placings were:

1st Black

2nd Blue

3rd Red

4th Green

5th Gold

 

Team MVPs were:

Black Team – Alex Gutteridge

Blue Team – Luke Donohue

Red Team – Daniel Meyer

Green Team – Zac Raso

 

Thank you to all who participated in the Leagues this year, there were over 370 people who played, coached, managed, umpired or scored during the season. Thank yoiu for your patience with the weather and we look forward to a bigger and better season in 2016.