Waikato Lacrosse fulfilled a long-term dream with the first U15 girls district tournament at Tamahere Park last weekend.
The tournament aimed to encourage and develop age-group players from the region with eight teams having lined up to play. Three teams were from Waipa, two from Matamata-Piako, and one each from Hamilton and Thames Valley. The tournament was run with seven players on each team, with short 10-minute halves.
Waikato Lacrosse president Ursula Johnson says: "We are super-excited that we could get this going ; the level of lacrosse - for a group of U15s - was amazing. It has been a dream for us to get something like this going in the Waikato to provide some opportunities to have tournament experience without having to travel, and to be able to play as a district within a competition."
Waipa 1 took out the winner's trophy after a 5-2 victory against Waipa 2. Billed as a "nuggety" final against two evenly matched sides, the scoreline was 2-all at halftime, before Waipa 1 pulled ahead in the second half to score three unanswered goals and take overall honours.
