28/05/2026
🥈🏆⚽️ Year 8 Girls' CZ Football ⚽️🏆🥈
Going into today's tournament, the MRI girls walked in as favourites and had everyone's eyes on them. The pressure was immense, and they 100% delivered.
After an early loss against a superb DIO team, the girls reset, winning the next three games, including a must-win game against ANI, to advance to the semis. Against a strong Remuera side, MRI prevailed 1-0 to advance to the finals to play DIO again. In a torrid match, the teams couldn't be separated at full time, and the match went to penalties, where ultimately MRI went down, losing 3-2, and coming second overall. To lose in the final via penalties after seven matches is a cruel way to go down, but the girls should be immensely proud of what they have achieved. They 100% backed up their result from last year, proving it was no fluke, and their reputation was fully justified.
A massive thank you to Miss Golding for all her work with our football and futsal teams, particularly with our Year 8 girls' squad, which has won back-to-back CZ Futsal titles, placed second in the Year 7 girls' Football Inter-zones last year, and then placed second today at CZs by the barest of margins. What an awesome performance by Miss Golding and this group of girls!