Sunderland Sunday League
Sunday 22 March 2009
RCA Barnes ran out comfortable 6-0 victors in their game against bottom club Redhouse WMC. Redhouse won the toss and elected to take advantage of a strong wind by kicking down the slope taking a grip on the match early on with RCA being unable to get their passing game going. However Redhouse failed to capitalise and RCA duly got their game together taking the lead on 25 minutes when Gary Tyzack broke down the right flank and drilled a shot-cum-cross from near the goal line which evaded the keeper. A defender then completely miskicked his attempted clearance - twice - and sliced into his own net. A second goal was not long in coming as Willie Crew got into the box and was clumsily brought down for a penalty, which was duly despatched by skipper Curtis.
H-T 2 - 0
The second half was completely dominated by RCA and they went on to score another four goals, all netted by the in-form Andrew Place - two good headers, an opportunist close range effort and a clean strike across the keeper) - to bring his tally to nine in the last four games.
The result means that RCA have secured their place in the Premier Division for next year with ten games still to play to go. We can look forward to the rest of the season and hopefully some Cup success. It also means we can now start building up our squad for next season and can offer a tremendous club set up, A1 facilities and the continued, appreciated, backing of the mother club & their oficials, to any new players who would like to join or continued improvement, not to mention our involvement in both County and National Cup competitions.