Heighington Under 6s hosted their annual Tournament on Sunday 16th July with Darlington All Stars, Stranton AFC & Crook Town Panthers also in attendance. The first group game saw Heighington go down 5-1 in the group against a strong All Stars side, the Goal coming from top scorer on the Day (6) Alex. Heighington then faced Stranton and won the game 5-0 Goals from Archie (2) Alex (2) and Tyler. The third group game Heighington faced Crook Town and there were great performances from Zane, Kieran & Liam. However, the boys unfortunately lost 3-0. This saw Heighington finish 3rd in the group and face Group winners All Stars in the Final. A starting line up of Louie, Liam, Tyler, Archie & Alex gave a great account of themselves. Going 1-0 down before turning the game on its head with goals from Tyler and Archie. All Stars then equalised before Alex scored to put Heighington 3-2 up. Heighington tired in the heat and All Stars picked up a gear and eventually won the game 6-3.
This meant Heighington now faced Stranton in the final of the Plate. Heighington went 3-0 up with Goals from Tyler & Alex (2) Stranton pulled a Goal back before Kieran and Zane were introduced with the former scoring a great Goal with his first touches to round off the scoring, 4-1 Heighington. In the Cup Final Crook Town defeated All Stars 2-1 in what was a great game which could have gone either way. All teams had a great day, and it was nice for the newly formed Heighington side to pick up their first of hopefully many pieces of Silverware, with captain Liam picking the Plate up for his Team! Special thanks to all of the volunteers and referees on the Day