BARKING BOYS RETAIN SCORE SIX-A-SIDE TITLE

LOCSP Press Release: Saturday 21 November 2009

BARKING BOYS RETAIN SCORE SIX-A-SIDE TITLE

By Zsanett Furka, UEL First Year BA (Hons) Sports Journalism degree student

O’S FANS gave a rapturous welcome to the winners of the SCORE six-a-side tournament during last Saturdays’ game against Tranmere. Leyton Orient Community Sports Programme (LOCSP) Coach, Howard Gould handed out the medals to pupils from Barking’s Eastbury School.

Winners for the second year in a row, Eastbury’s team, Arian Retkoceri, Bekim Shakeri, Ben Bickford, Danny Fuller, Denis Tomkins, Emmanuel Johnson, Jack Baldwin and Lee Lucas along with manager Wayne Baldacchino were ecstatic to win again.

Manager Wayne Baldacchino explained how they became champions “We entered it for the second time in a row, after we won it the previous year. We have two teams of players from our school in Barking. We played in a big group tournament, and came top in both [groups]”.

In the final Barking Eastbury were up against a team which beat them in the first round, but “luckily this time the result was on our side and we won the tournament” added Bladacchino.

Captain, Jack Baldwin, was really pleased be on the pitch at half time. “The experience of being on the pitch was very good. And of course all the others of the team enjoyed it as well.”

The best part of the day was receiving their prize from the Sergeant Steve Faulkner, Sergeant Scott Meadows and Adam Wilshire which made it, according to Jack, “a good day. It was well organised and everyone made it very enjoyable for us. Thanks to Leyton Orient and the Army.”

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