SCOTTON SCORCHERS continued their season in great style with some excellent performances at BURTON LEONARD BULLETS on Saturday.
SCORCHERS U11s produced another display of excellent passing football, with the hosts quick to get into their stride, taking advantage of some early Scotton missed chances to takea one goal lead. SCOTTON were quick to respond though, and with Man-of-thematch Jordan Tear dominating play from the back, SCOTTON moved into a 2-1 half time lead. In the second half SCOTTON began to dominate the game with impressive team work and inter-play. With hat tricks from Elliot Plews and Harry Fewkes and a well constructed Hugo Corbett goal, SCOTTON eased away 7-1 winners.The reverse friendly was a much closer but no less entertaining affair with SCOTTON'S Charlie Baker scoring the sole winning goal.
SCOTTON U9s continued their winning ways in the league game, with some fabulous football and a 7 - 2 final score line, with a second half hattrick from Dominic Tear supported by 2 goals for Jackson Hobson, 1 for Jake Hargreaves and 1 for Josh Osborne. The following friendlies equally as enthralling with flowing football and individual skill, finished with Scotton being 5 - 3 winners, with 2 goals from Ben Lockwood, 2 from Jake Hargreaves and 1 from Joe Eastwood. The third game finished with a draw which saw a fabulous display from Dominic Tear (with great support play from midfield) who scored all 4 goals for Scotton, bringing the SCORCHERS level after being 4 down at one stage.
SCOTTONS U7's made it a hat-trick of victories in the league games. After going 2-0 down in the first half, SCOTTON got their football going in the second, and with some great teamwork from Alex Shaw and Sebi Corbett saw SCOTTON pull themselves level. As the match neared the final minutes, one final effort from SCOTTON saw them sneak the winner, taking the match 3-2. The following friendly saw the BULLETS field a young team, and despite holding the SCORCHERS to 0-0 at half time, the SCORCHERS showed their strength, with he match finishing 4-0 to SCOTTON.
