UP-to-date report from Mr Taylor, the Year Nine football manager:

Our Year 9 football team has just won the local inter-schools league, after being runners-up twice.

In Year 7, Parklands won the championship, while in Year 8,Southlands triumphed.

The soccer result that clinched the title was played on Thursday March 11 against St Michael's. Albany won 6-1 to ensure a 1005 record of wins over local teams.

The scorers were Buchan, Hughes 2, Swinhoe 2 and an own goal.

Results so far:

Southlands (away) WON 2-1 (Hughes, Booth)

Parklands (home) WON 3-1 (Buchan 2, Hughes)

(This was a really tough, close match)

Holy Cross (home) WON 10-1 (Buchan 3, Hughes 2, Swinhoe 2, Forrest, Booth, McMenamin)

Bishop Rawstorne (away) WON 8-0 (Buchan 2, Hughes 2, Olsen, Swinhoe, Booth, Ashton)

St. Michael's were played on Thursday March 11.

Our team:

Goalies - Liam Murphy (Peter Rudd)

Back 4 - from Paul Swinhoe, Phil Buchan, Tony Kenny, James Berry (captain), Ian Olsen, and Gareth Sharples.

Midfield - from Leigh Booth, Carl Forrest, Kris McMenamin, Richard Ashton, Ian Olsen, Ben Duffy and Liam Hutchinson.

Forwards - from Adrian Hughes, Phil Buchan, and Paul Swinhoe.

Not surprisingly, a number of footballers from the Albany team have played in the Chorley town team. These are James Berry, Leigh Booth, Ian Olsen, Adrian Hughes and Carl Forrest.

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