On the 26^th March 2015 Netherlee primary football team faced off against Giffnock Primary at Woodfarm High School.

The match started off well for Netherlee who put lots of pressure on the Giffnock defense and we were unlucky not to score but the Netherlee defense gave the ball away and were too high up the pitch and this led to Giffnock scoring a goal to make it 1-0.

Netherlee kept their heads up and soon afterwards got a goal back through a through ball and a nice finish from Shay O’Dowd to make it 1-1, Assisted by Stephen Alpine.

Netherlee had what seemed like easy control of this match but with the defense again pushing too high up the field Giffnock were able to get a chipped ball over the top and their striker found the net again to make it 2-1.

At the end of the first half Kerr Mackie went up front and hit the woodwork twice with two unlucky shots.

Some nice passing from our team led to the ball being played by Ben Galloway through to Daniel Gear who played and unselfish pass to Shay O’Dowd who equalised just before half-time.

Early second half was dominated by our team with Giffnock making some excellent saves from strong shots by Daniel Gear, Stephen Alpine and Shay O’Dowd but a stray throw in from us was intercepted by our opponents and they clinically finished to make the score 3-2 to Giffnock. Things looked bad for Netherlee.

With around 8 minutes left Euan Menzies ran through from the left-back position to control Stephen Alpine’s throw in. His thunderous shot deflected by a Giffnock defender and the ball flew into the back of the net.

In the late moments of the game Ben Galloway made an overlapping run and from a tough angle put Netherlee up for the first time that day, assisted by Kerr Mackie.

Sadly not for long as with 2mins left Giffnock equalised through a defensive mistake it looked as If Netherlee would have to settle for a draw.

However with 30 seconds left Daniel Gear played a brilliant pass to Kerr Mackie who cut inside on his weaker foot and smashed the ball into the far bottom corner to seal a last minute win for Netherlee making the final score 5-4 to Netherlee. Overall Netherlee deserved the win and it was a great performance for their first game together.

By Euan Menzies, Sean Miller, Stephen Alpine, Findlay McKenzie & Kerr Mackie

Members of our Primary 7 Netball Team were in action again last Wednesday at Williamwood for the cluster qualifier tournament. They had to play in matches against teams from Busby and Carolside. The girls worked very hard and played great as a team. Netherlee finished second on the night in a hard fought contest.

Well done to the girls and thank you to Mrs McCarthy and Mrs Sneddon for taking the girls to the event!

The team are pictured below with their certificate and modelling our new Netherlee  sports team hoodies.

Congratulations to our P6/7 cross country team for being selected to represent Netherlee in the above event at Rouken Glen on Wednesday 11th March. Despite the tough conditions, all runners did themselves proud!

Christopher Watson-Sweeney finished 2^nd in his race to win silver and he along with Michael Alba, Robbie Currie and Ben Galloway also claimed silver in the team event. Well done boys!

Our girls team also did very well with Stella Cowey finishing in 8^th place. The team, made up of Stella along with Ashmi Deb, Anna Winter and Erin Fraser placed 8^th out of 20 teams.

Well done to our runners!

Our next cross country event is the Scottish Schools which takes place on Saturday 18th April in Kirkcaldy. Netherlee will be fielding a strong team of 20 pupils with runners in the P6 and P7 boys and girls categories. Check back in April for photos and results from the event.

On Thursday 19th February we played in a friendly netball tournament against our cluster at Williamwood High School. In the tournament we played against St Joseph’s and Carolside. We won both our matches, scoring 6-0 against St Joseph’s and 5-1 against Carolside. Overall we all enjoyed it and it was a great experience, though we were all rather competitive! After we played both our matches we watched St Joseph’s play Carolside. We all showed good sportsmanship by applauding when they scored. At the end we got a certificate for participating and another for our team coming first. We hope to play more friendly tournaments and we hope everyone enjoyed it!

By Ashmi Deb & Eilidh Neilson