In tonight’s evening fixture, the Men‘s team played Aberdeen University in a fast-paced game. After chances for both sides, Casuals opened the scoring from a tightly angled shot after a well worked move down the left bye-line. After an amazing goal-line save by an Aberdeen defender, Casuals ended the half with a 2-0 advantage after forcing the ball home from a rebound.

Although the home team added a 3rd from a high flick, Aberdeen came back strongly and scored from a pacy counter attack. After the Casuals stretched their lead to 4-1 with a battling solo run and lob, Aberdeen again reduced from a break away; but Casuals held their ground for a 4-2 win.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the annual Kuiper Cup has arrived, choose your Nation and come and support them! Who is going to win the legendary Cup, the Tulips or the Islanders? May the best team win!

JAMOR – SATURDAY 15h00

The U16 Mixed team struggled in their semi-final against a strong (and all-male) Lousada team. Despite battling valiantly, they were 0-5 down at half time, and Lousada doubled their goal tally in the second half.

A mere one hour later, they took on ESLFB in the match for 3^rd place. Despite several chances going begging at both ends, it wasn’t until the 52^nd minute that Casuals finally scored after the ball rebounded to the edge of the circle from a good save by the keeper. But just two minutes later, ESLFB found an equaliser with a looping shot and, with no further score, this took the game into ‘Golden goal’ extra time.

The first period produced several close misses, but no goals. But with 7 minutes left on the clock, a long ball out of defence found the centre forward on the edge of the circle, and he calmly slipped the ball under the advancing keeper for a 2-1 win and an honourable 3^rd place.

This morning the U18s played their final league match against CAMIR. With 2nd place secured and no chance of reaching 1st, Casuals were bound to be in a carefree and attacking mood, and they opened the scoring after 10 minutes. Although CAMIR equalised from a well worked penalty corner, the home team went into the break with a 4-1 lead. The second half saw some better quality of passing from both teams, with the Casuals securing a 7-3 win.

This morning Casuals put out 12 U12 players for the last 2 official games of the season. They lost 4-5 against Carris, with the younger players on the field for 3 out of 4 periods. They then beat Futebol Benfica 4-2 with the younger players still playing 1-2 periods each.

Yesterday morning the U16 Mixed team won their home game against ESLFB 2-1, with all 3 goals coming from penalty corners. They followed this with another win this afternoon against Futebol Benfica. After a sluggish first half left them trailing 0-1 at the interval, Casuals turned the game around in the second half to win 5-1.

With 4 wins from 4 games, they qualify from the Regional phase in 1^st place; but they will face tough competition from the north in the Final play-offs on June 8^th.