The first Scorchers trip of the year was to see Leeds Carnegie Ladies (our Premier League community partner)take on Blackburn Rovers and what a game we saw with 5 great goals, fantastic skills and a number of England internationals involved. It was great to see a number of the players in the first team who have supported Scotton over the last 4 years. We all remember Gemma Bonner who demonstrated how to juggle a football at the Scorchers World Cup sleepover, not only making the Leeds first team, but captaining England at U19 level and winning (yes thats right) winning the European Championship this year!!!
Then we saw Rachel Daley who helped us promote girls football on the stray this year come off the bench to put in a terrific performance. Then of course on the wing the ever stylish Sue Smith Full England International and goalscorer today showing just why she is the best wide player in the country. Sue of course came along specifically to support the Scorchers at our cup finals last season and really made it a special day for all our players. Meanwhile battling in midfield was non other than Sophie Walton (she also has a less famous brother who also plays a bit of football) Sophie of course has been our community player for the last 2 years and has been a real star, coming to our cup final, training sessions and presentation evenings and always bringing lots of goodies including of course that England shirt signed by all the England U19 squad! And last but not least this years community player, Carla (the cart wheel) Cantrell playing up front who also got on the scoresheet and is i believe the top female goalscorer in the league this year, look out for her at Scorchers training in the next few weeks.
All our party had a fabulous day with autographs galore and a photo with the team following the game.
Many Thanks to those that came along, please come along on one of our club trips, thanks to Wayne and our club sponsors Eddie Brown Tours we can arange trips at a fraction of the cost, but if we dont get your support, we could lose the sponsorship and their support,so come on the Scorchers!!!!
