Every team member played their hearts out and pulled together to shut down the opposition.

Andrew Muddle, Scott Sullivan Amber ruddy and Jake Hunter defended strongly to keep the Maitland away from our goals as much as possible.

Tom Levick, Josh Graham, Rhianon Denniss and James Bale played the midfield with determination, to keep the ball moving through to the forwards.

Will Brooker, Carmen Denniss and David Muddle had a great game up the front, with many attempts at goals, but unfortunately the Maitland goalie was just too good and stopped us from scoring.

Jack Robards made many fantastic saves in goal and was a real asset to the team. The full time score was 0-0.

We then went into extra time. Both teams were exhausted, but continued to play hard. And at the end of extra time the score was still 0-0.

So unfortunately, it came down to a penalty shoot out. The final score was 5-4 not in our favour.

Dungog was definitely the stronger team on the day with most of the game played in the oppositions half.

Every player had an awesome game and we are so proud of their achievements and sportsmanship. It was a very unfair result for a team that has fought hard all year to make it this far.

We are very proud of this team to have played most of the rounds with no reserves. The under 14s are the minor premiers and runners up in the grand final.

Thank you to Rhianon for giving us a reserve in this very important game.

Thank you to all the under 11s, 12s and 13s that have helped us out during the season and pre-season.

And a very special thanks to Tom Atkins for coaching this great team during his HSC year. Well done and we hope you all return next year to go one better.