West Devon Small Schools Football Festival

Image: small schools football festival 2019Crowndale was the venue for the OCRA West Devon Small Schools Football Festival.

Teams from Exbourne, Lamerton, Gulworthy, Mary Tavy & Brentor A & B), Highampton (A & B), Lewtrenchard and Milton Abbot took part in what was a very entertaining and competitive football tournament.

Image: small schools football festival 2019The top 2 teams from the two pools were Lamerton and Gulworthy from Pool 1 and Milton Abbot and Lewtrenchard from pool 2. Semi-final 1 resulted in Lamerton beating Lewtrenchard 3-0 and Gulworthy won through to the final, beating Milton Abbot 1-0.

The final games of the morning were very exciting and very close.

Lewtrenchard beat Milton Abbot 3-2 on penalties to gain 3rd place and the bronze medals.

In the Cup final Lamerton and Gulworthy also drew their game and it went 10 penalties before the deadlock was broken, with the Lamerton goal keeper scoring the only penalty to give his team the gold medals and the OCRA Trophy. Gulworthy received the silver medals.