A big tournament on the way to next month´s European Junior Qualification Tournaments will be held 18-21 March in Gorzow Wlkp, Poland. Seven national teams and a selection of the Eastern states in Germany with players of the age group 1993 will be battle for the Slowianka Cup. The matches will be held at the Slowianka Sports and Recreation Centre which has already earned some international fame as venue for waterpolo competitions.
Slowianka Cup – Men´s Junior Eight-Nation-Tournament at Gorzow Wlkp – Poland
Participating teams
Group A
Georgia
Great Britain
Poland
Switzerland
Group B
Czech Republic
Eastern states of Germany
Israel
Turkey
Schedule
Thursday, 18 March 2010
15:30 Technical meeting
16:00 Opening ceremony
16:30 Great Britain vs. Georgia
17:45 Switzerland vs. Poland
19:00 Turkey vs. Israel
20:15 Eastern Germany vs. Czech Republic
Friday, 19 March 2010
09:00 Eastern Germany vs. Israel
10:15 Turkey vs. Czech Republic
11:30 Georgia vs. Poland
12:45 Great Britain vs. Switzerland
16:30 Israel vs. Czech Republic
17:45 Turkey vs. Eastern Germany
19:00 Great Britain vs. Poland
20:15 Switzerland vs. Georgia
Saturday, 20 March 2010
16:30 Semi-final I: A4 vs. B3
17:45 Semi-final II: A3 vs. B4
19:00 Semi-final III: A2 vs. B1
20:15 Semi-final IV: A1 vs. B2
Sunday, 21 March 2010
09:00 Game for place 7: L SF I vs. L SF II
10:15 Game for place 5: W SF I vs. W SF II
11:30 Game for place 3: L SF III vs. L SF IV
12:45 Finale game: W SF III vs. W SF IV
Source: Water Polo World
Invicta got knocked out of the 2010 National Junior Water Polo Championships today. Manchester finished top of their group with City of Birmingham making it a Lucky runners up posititoin after losing one game against Manchester and watching a very close nerves, with Invcta only managing to get a draw against Manchester.
The results:
City of Manchester 11 City of Birmingham 8
City of Birmingham 10 Invicta 8
City of Manchester 10 Invicta 10
City of Manchester and City of Birmingham will now join group A winners Lancaster City and runners up Dunfemline on the 17th & 18th April at Walsall for the qualification round.
For the full report on the Lancaster games click here.
An email from Chris Ducker:
I am writing to let you know that unfortunately, due to lack of funding, there will be no GB Juniors/England Talent representative team participating in the NWPL/BWPL this year.
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The Junior men have won their tournament in Romainia.
A full tournament report will follow.
Lancaster player Ciaran James won MVP and Lancaster goalkeaper Marc Robinson got Best GK of the tournament.
We are Lancaster is the message that the junior team put across to the group A teams of the 2010 National Junior Water Polo Championships as they dominated the group and put away 50 goals in 4 games.
Lancaster played their first game against Cheltenham. We were not sure what kind of team they were going to filed. Lancaster played a strong defence and put 10 goals past GB squad goalkeper Woody with Luke franks scoring a ha-trick. Final score Lancaster 10 Cheltenham 2
Lancaster second game of the day was against Barnstaple. Again this was team that we did not know. Lancaster put 11 goals int the back of the net and only conceded 2.
Lancaster third game was against Isle of Man. Lancaster used this as a warm up game for the final game. they slotted 21 goals with Decland scoring 5, Luke franks 4 Lawrance and Sam scoring 3.
The game of the day was the last game against Dunfermline. Lancaster went three goals down in the first 3 minutes but by half time Lancaster pulled it back to 3 – 3. In the second half Lancaster hit dunfermline with their strong defence and their outstanding attack. They won the game 8 – 4.
Lancaster now qualify for the qualification round along with Dunfermline to be played at Walsall on the 17th and 18th April.
Lancaster are set to play their first game at 2.30pm against Cheltenham.
We have just found out that group B who are down in Barnett has been called off due to double booking of the pool.
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Good luck to all the Lancaster players who are going to Liverpool tomorrow to take part in the 2010 National Junior Championships.
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Next Wednesday the 3rd of March sees the final round of the Euro League preliminary competition and Eurosport are showing one of the crucial matches in Group D . The game between Pro Recco the Italian champions and Aquatic Sport Club Shturm 2002 from Russia is one of the deciding matches as to who joins Pro Recco in the quarter finals.
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These trials will take place on Sunday 28th February at Liverpool Aquatic Centre for girls born 95-96 and younger.
Click here for more details: SNW Academy Flyer – 28 February 2010.pdf
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2009 Men’s Champions Lancaster came into the final in great form having taken the National League title earlier this year and coming through the Championships undefeated. With high expectations they were able to take victory over outsiders Bristol Central with a fantastic 13-7 win.
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