Knockout Cup Football Finals 2024

Our 2nd XI boys and junior premier girls contested their respective finals at Korikori park today.

The Second XI boys have had a very positive season coming runner up in Division 3. They fought their way to the knockout cup final beating teams that were in higher divisions and were up against HBHS Senior Development who won Division 2. After being 1-1 at halftime HBHS made good use of a strong second half wind and scored 3 quick goals after half time and then another late in the game to make it 5-1. Congratulations to our boys who fought hard and played some great football and a big thanks to coach Luke Kennedy who has instilled a very positive team culture that the boys have enjoyed being part of.

In the second game of the morning our junior premier girls were up against St Peters who were second to our girls in the premier division. Hillcrest went up by two goals early in the game before St Peter’s fought back to make it 2-1 at half time and were able to put our girls under pressure down wind in the second half. Some excellent defence from the Hillcrest backs and good control through the middle allowed Hillcrest to repel any attacks effectively while our forwards continued to apply attacking pressure. This finally paid dividends with a late penalty being awarded which Leila Steward was able to put away, Hillcrest taking the game 3-1 in the end! Well done to our girls for their outstanding unbeaten season and thanks to coach Josh Steward for all his great work with the girls.