Academy in Cup action

Cup fever gripped the Academy at Lisburn Distillery this week as all the teams tried to make it through to the semi-finals, with the U15s and U16s securing impressive victories and continuing their cup runs.
By The Newsroom
Published 6th Mar 2014, 19:59 BST

The U17s, U14s, U13s and U12s were all unsuccessful in their attempts but the strength of the Academy was shown with six teams in the quarter-finals.

After their 100% season record ended last week, the U17s saw their chance of making it a Lisburn League clean sweep disappear when they were beaten 3-2 by Hillsborough. For the second week in a row, the Whites lost 3-2 after having a man sent off and conceding two penalties didn’t help their cause.

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The two teams to successfully navigate their way through their quarter-finals were the Dundee Utd bound U15s and U16s who secured impressive 6-0 and 1-0 wins over Apex and Shankill respectively.

The U14s narrowly lost 3-2 to unbeaten local rivals Lisburn Youth while the U13s 4-1 loss to Shankill didn’t reflect the close nature of the game. The U12s’ good cup run also came to an end with a 6-1 defeat.

At mini soccer the U9s played really well against St. Oliver Plunkett while the U-8s and U-10s came up against excellent Ardoyne teams were Jack Bonar and Noah Kelly got goals.