Poulton Primary League round-up and girls' football

They came out on top in the Under-11 Classic Cup Final with a 3-0 win against Fleetwood Town.

Fleetwood actually started the game the brighter as it appeared BJFF were suffering from cup final nerves and couldn’t get their game going.

Fleetwood, meanwhile, were gunning for goal and created some great chances and really should have been in the lead early on but for Raedan Shirran and Fin Hambly making some fine goalline stops.

BJFF continued to try and play their football but try as they might, they couldn’t get their passing game going.

That was until the 25th minute when Taylor Shaw received the ball 25 yards out and he smashed a superb shot which looped over the keeper and into the back of the net.

That settled any nerves BJFF had as they started to pass the ball well.

A close effort led to a goal kick, which Fleetwood’s keeper launched into midfield but Luca Morelli intercepted and laid the ball off to Shaw, who shielded the ball really well before turning his marker and driving the ball into the bottom corner to give BJ a 2-0 half-time lead.

BJFF came out in the second half with their tails up and started to play some great stuff, but Fleetwood weren’t done and continued to try to get a goal back.

They even had the ball in the net but, unfortunately, the striker was just offside.

BJFF started a good move through midfield, the ball comes to Josh Nester and everyone was screaming for him to move the ball out to the left wing.

He had other ideas and slotted an inch-perfect pass through to Shaw, who drilled it past the keeper to round off a great game with a hat-trick.

BJFF enjoyed the best of the second half with Raedean Shirran also striking the post twice after two great runs and shots.

He deserved a goal but his efforts in defence and later midfield, constantly blocking anything Fleetwood tried and playing the ball out to start BJFF’s attacks gained him BJFF’s man of the match award.

Meanwhile, in the group stage of the Under-nine Coulton Cup, YMCA Oranges picked up a 3-0 home victory in their game against St Annes Crusaders.

It was a very even start to this tie at Seafield Road last Saturday with the visitors always looking dangerous in attack.

However YMCA gradually gained the initiative and went on to clinch victory with strikes by Jack Wareing, Harley Molloy and Rylee Wilkinson.

In the same competition, YMCA Blacks came out on top of a seven-goal thriller as they beat Blackpool Rangers Hoops 4-3.

Play swung from end to end with YMCA just emerging narrow winners in a highly entertaining and thrilling contest.

YMCA’s scorers were Dan Threlfall, Connor Lewis-Murgatroyd, Will Kelso and Stan Fielding.

In the Under-10 section, YMCA Blacks emerged comfortable winners in their 5-0 win at BJFF Vipers.

They had the edge from the start producing a very solid team performance throughout.

Oliver Hoskisson led the way with a well taken hat-trick as Tom Woodington and Callum Brown were their other scorers.

YMCA Under-15s continued their recent good form with a comfortable 5-2 victory against neighbours Lytham Juniors.

Although the early play was scrappy, YMCA made the most of the early running without managing to carve out any clear chances.

However they took the lead in the 20th minute when Taylor Stock took the ball to the left byline and sent in a low cross to Jake Molloy who bundled the ball into the net.

YMCA remained on top but were caught out on the break by a Lytham attack five minutes before the break and the visitors levelled the scores.

However, within two minutes YMCA regained the lead when Stock burst through the middle and fired the ball home to give them a 2-1 lead at the interval.

YMCA went two goals ahead five minutes after the restart when a free-kick into the Lytham area found Zac Pearson, who scored with a fine finish.

YMCA continued to take the initiative and Stock netted twice more to complete his hat-trick with the visitors notching another late consolation in the closing minutes.

Callum Leigh and Olly Fishwick were both notable in a solid all-round YMCA team performance.

YMCA Under-13 Girls beat Cadley 5-3 in the first round of the North Valley Burnley Unity League Cup.

YMCA progressed through to the next round after a hard-working display at Seafield Road.

Both teams were evenly matched in the early stages but it was YMCA who took the lead in the 10th minute when Isabelle Kells beat the keeper to a bouncing ball and headed it over her head before firing it into the empty net.

Their lead was then doubled when Ellie McNally played an excellent pass to Kells who made no mistake to make it 2-0.

Cadley were always in the game and after hesitation in the YMCA defence they reduced the deficit to 2-1.

YMCA quickly regained their two-goal advantage though with Kells completing her hat-trick with a superb finish following another fine move orchestrated by McNally.

YMCA were playing some excellent football with Annabelle Jackson causing all sorts of problems, and it was from her fine dribbling and unselfish cross that Kells scored a simple goal and made it 4-1.

Kells completed an outstanding first half after she once again got in front of her defender and raced towards goal before slotting the ball into the net to make it 5-1 going into the break.

After half-time Cadley came out with purpose and YMCA were grateful to goalkeeper Olivia Neal who pulled off some outstanding saves throughout.

Pressure on YMCA continued to mount and it was no surprise when the visitors scored again.

Another Cadley goal soon followed to make it 5-3 and YMCA looked up against it.

The visitors continued to launch everything into attack but the YMCA defence solidly held firm with Megan Lewis and Lara Pilling particularly outstanding, making numerous vital interceptions as they managed to hold on for victory and clinch a place in the next round in the process.

In a highly entertaining and sporting game Georgia Norman and Saisha Bracken were notable for YMCA.