Qormi Hockey Club

The Qormi Under 17s began their season taking part in the Under 17 Pre-season festival. This festival was beetween the major 3 clubs in the competition, namely Qormi, Sliema Hs and Floriana YS. In the 1st Match Sliema beat Floriana 2-0

Qormi in their 1st encounter faced the team that lost the 1st match, Floriana YS. Qormi took just few minutes to settle down and after 2 good opportunities Nicole Zammit opened the score. Just 3 minutes later and form another action on the right side, Keith Bajada scored the 2nd goal. Just few seconds before half time and Shawn Dimech scored the 3rd goal. In the 2nd half Williams opted to give more experience to the new comers and after Shawn Dimech scored the 4th, it was debut player Sheldon Gauci that sealed the result to a 5-0.

In the last match Qormi faced Sliema Hs. Qormi went out on the attack and dominated the match from the 1st minute. In fact Qormi took some time to open the result due to very good goalkeeping between the Sliema posts. From a right side action Daniel Ellul hit in froma closed angle. Qormi kept attacking but failed to score again in the 1st half. In the 2nd half Qormi kept the same rythm and kept on attacking. At the 5th minute Shawn Dimech managed to score from the left side with a very good hit and put the score to 2-0. Sliema began pressing up and managed to create some chances. However debut keeper Christian Dimech protected well the posts and managed to keep a clean sheet.

Qormi Under 17s on Saturday will begin the league commitments with a match against Floriana YS.