Warley Wasps

News 2009
Alex Parsonage has just returned from playing for the Senior GB team in Turkey and now it's the turn for two of our younger members. Roger Kennedy and Graham Harrington have been selected to play for the GB Youth Team in the Umit Oguzoglu Tournament in Istanbul in Turkey 21st - 23rd August 2009 This is an international tournament for players born 93/94 and is funded by the ASA. There are 7 National Teams taking part, Turkey Bulgaria France Germany Great Britain Hungary Ukraine Our congratulations go to both players and wish them a very successful time in Istanbul. Has anyone got a spare English - Turkisk phrase book??
	Men's B team Stafford 7 v 13 Warley (6 July 09) Excellent result, with four games left Warley remain in pole position. Worcester 7 v 11 Warley (2 July 09) Worcester proved to be a tough hurdle to overcome. 4 - 3 down after the 1st quarter Warley knew it would be difficult. Fortunately, as the game progressed Worcester weakened and Warley got stronger. 6 - 6 at half-time signalled the end of Worcester's resistance as they only scored one more goal, whereas Warley maintained their score rate. Scorers for Warley were Ollie Jackson (1), Noman Stephens (3), Graham Harrington (5) and Roger Kennedy (2). Warley 20 v 3 Boldmere, What at result!! Next games: Stafford v Warley, Mon 6th July, 9.00pm Warley v Newport, Wed 15th July, 8.45pm See Results New Link Go to: midlandwpl.co.uk for Div 3 results
Men's A team Warley 16 v 10 Hucknall (8 July 09) Having drawn away at Hucknall this was a good win to have when considering the title chase. Four all in the first quarter, Warley went ahead 8 - 4 by half-time and increased their lead in the second half. With four games left Warley are well placed at the top of the League. 22-July Warley v Solihull 27-July Warley v Parogon 2-Sept Coventry v Warley 16-Sept Warley v Nottingham Nottingham 14 v 15 Warley (22 June 09) Down 14 v 11 in the last quarter. A win that keeps Warley in with a chance of winning the League Solihull 4 v 22 Warley (16 June 09) What happened here?? See Results New Link Go to: midlandwpl.co.uk for Div 1 results
	MINI POLO Under 14's B'ham Sharks 8 v 5 Warley (6 June 09) Warley's Friday evening youth squad had their first ever game at Tiverton Road Baths against a more experienced Birmingham Sharks team. It took Warley a couple of quarters to get to grips with passing, attacking and defending, but there was a visible improvement in each quarter's play. In all 13 players took part in a very enjoyable match in which Coaches Richard & Dave plus Graham Harrington were very pleased with the way the youngsters played. Players (in order of cap number) were Connor Jukes (goalkeeper for two quarters and scorer of 3 goals), Thomas Gardiner, Rory Kavangh, Chris Roberts, William Tomlinson, Millie Clarke, Georgia Mawdsley, Sam Dallow, William Bruce, James Clarke, Nola James, Amy Marshall and Kurtis Jones (scorer of 2 goals) A MIni Polo session for boys and girls aged 8 - 13. Have fun & learn the skills of water polo. If you can swim and you want to try, just come along on Friday evening, 7.45 - 8.30pm at Smethwick Baths, Thimblemill Road, Bearwood. First session is FREE
New Link Go to: midlandwpl.co.uk for results	Men's A team Derby 11 v 15 Warley (10 June 09) Warley got off to a tremendous start taking a 4 - 0 lead. However, Derby pegged back two goals by the end of the first quarter and got the better of the next two quarters with scores of 2 - 3 and 0 - 1 to go into the final quarter leading by just one goal, 6 - 7. Within 20 seconds Warley drew level 7 - 7. The scores then switched back and forth, 7 - 8, 8 - 8, 9 - 8, 9 - 9 and finally with just a minute to go, Graham Harrington made it 10 - 9 to win the game and complete the double over a very strong Derby side. Other scorers for Warley were Max Gerasimov (2), Adam Whitehall (4), and Nick Covington (3). Solihull 4 v 22 Warley (16 June 09) Awaiting match sheet See Results Next game: Nottingham away at their new home, Beechdale pool NG8 3LL, Mon 22nd June, 8.55 start
GB Youth v Romania Edited by Nick Covington Graham Harrington played for the GB Youth team against Romania, 13th/14th March 2009 at Lancaster. Success in Australia Those of you who remember Tony Hall should follow the link to the South Australian Water Polo website where you will see that Tony is the coach of the South Australia U14 team and that his son Dan is achieving success as a player.	Match Reports: The weekend in Lancaster was just great for the lads. It was well organised and they won both games with the same score 11-8. Graham scored 3, won all but one of the swim offs and generally played well. In fact I would say that his 2 goals in the first game were the turning point in the game as they took the score from 6-7 to 8-7 with 5 minutes to play in the last quarter. Link to: Daniel Hall playing polo in Aussie land
	Ladies team CHAMPIONS 2008-09 !! Champions for the second year running and winners in four out of the last six years, Warley Ladies can feel justifiably proud of themselves. However, the result came as a little of an anti-climax. The team thought that the title would be won by whoever won the final game of the season against local rivals Walsall. Gearing themselves up to this final encounter they were somewhat disappointed, but partly relieved, when Walsall rang up less than four hours before the game was due to start to say they couldn't raise a team at their pool!! Not only that, a glut of non-fulfilments meant Warley had already won the title and didn't even need to beat Walsall, who had slumped to sixth place. All that worry & tension!! Vicki Hawkins had the best scoring record in the league, scoring 52 goals in 8 matches, an average of 6.5 goals per game. Major queen for Warley, Maddison York 9 in 10 games. Congratulations to all the players! See all results
Juniors Runners up 2008-09 Warley were pipped into second place by a very good Wasall team. Well done to all the players: Philip Croft Graham Harrington Aaron Moorfield Bradley Iles Roger Kennedy Adam Jackson Oliver Jackson Rory Edwards Robbie Williams Connor Jukes Joe Watkins Sam Smith Next game: October 2009
	MDASA CHAMPIONS 2009 Warley (second top seeds from the West Midland Region) beat Hucknall (winners from the East Midlands Region) and then went on to play Walsall. Having been pipped on goal difference by Walsall in the WMASA event, Warley came out on top this time beating Walsall 12 - 11. Technical difficulties are preventing us from putting up a photo of this year's team. The players who took part were John Halstead, Alex Parsonage, Graham Harrington, Roger Kennedy, Adam Whitehall, Ian Wilkins, Dave Lane, Chris Carty, Paul Martin, John Pridden, Gaz Cheadle and Eddie Smart. Chris Dickinson coached the team.