Gairloch High Senior Football Team
On Saturday the 29th of October eight pupils and two adults travelled to Dornoch to the Highland Small Schools’ Seven-a-side football tournament. We played four grueling games against some very strong teams and unfortunately we failed to qualify. Going into our final game, we had won two games and lost one. We had to at least draw to go through to the semi-finals. Despite Dale Cunningham opening the score line with a superb long-range volley we lost 2-1. Our attackers didn’t have an easy day – however they managed to score seven goals. Five of these came from Dale Cunningham, Kenneth MacLennan scored a sublime long-range goal and David Gorman neatly tucked a brilliant team goal into the bottom corner. Our defence were no slouches either, Murdo and Kenneth MacLennan managed to withstand the opposition on many occasions – only losing games by one goal. Our goalie, Reece MacDonald, also made some great saves. We had Sandy Garrioch playing on the right of midfield creating some very good attacking opportunities and myself on the left doing the same. On the whole we were happy with our team’s performance and we look forward to next year’s tournament. We would like to thank Mr. Cumming for organising training this year and we would also like to thank Mrs. Gorman for taking five of our players to the tournament. Without the adults we would not have been able to go – so once again thank you very much. Ryan MacLean, S4
