A dawn of a new era began on Friday night at Lakes College for Whitehaven AFC, where the new Senior Woman's Team met for the very first time and played a friendly against a great set of lasses from Seaton!The team included a number of girls who played together last season for neighbours Whitehaven Miners, but also blooded 2 girls who are now 16 and progressed from the original youth team 7yrs ago, the team also included long time Whitehaven AFC Lionesses Youth Coach and supporter of the Club in Vanessa Fatialofa.Meet & Greet and First Team Talk of New Era!!The lasses set off really brightly and made some good possession turn into a number of great opportunities, Kelsey Hunter was really setting an impressive standard down the wing with her forward runs but wasn't shy of getting back and helping her defence out, a real modern winger.Hard working and speedy Winger Kelsey Hunter above.In the centre of the park hard tackling Elsa Whelan was putting herself about and breaking up the play a number of times and with the quality of Sophie May alongside her to spot a pass it soon resulted in a great set of passes with the final one coming over the top from out wide and NEW Woman's Captain Lauren Dye volleying it into the far corner, a cracking goal to get the new era up and running.Captain Lauren Dye pictured above.Seaton were causing Whitehaven lots of issues at the back as well and Abbie Wright, one of our original girls had to make a number of good saves to stop Seaton nicking one, but unfortunately Seaton eventually managed to get a deserved goal to make it 1-1. Whitehaven then made some changes to the team to give all the lasses game time with it being the first match and up stepped Vanessa Fatialofa, real good touch and was creating chances before taking upon her self to start a move and play and nice bit of combination play with a team mate and end up one on one with keeper and calmly slotted it into the far corner to make it 2-1.Motivational coach among the Lionesses and second goal scorer Vanessa Fatialofa pictured above!!Seaton came back once more and netted another equaliser which was followed up by a third to make it 3-2. The rest of the game was a tight affair and both teams created chances, Bobbie-Jo McGrady and Anna Teasdale working hard on the wings and Kayleigh Moore, one of our original girls harassing the Seaton defenders. While Samantha Atkinson, Georgia Kinley aka Kinn, Emily Sharpe all doing some decent last ditch defending at the back, Emily being the real leader at the back and working exceptionally hard.Whitehaven pushed for an equaliser with Sophie May knocking a number of through balls for Georgia Irving to run onto but unfortunately the pressure going forward left space at the back and Seaton grabbed a couple of late goals to make it 5-2 and were deserving winners.Pictured above Woman of the Game for Whitehaven, Sophie May, always looking to create and added real quality to the team in the middle of midfield.Joint Coach Rob Campbell said 'It was a real honour for me personally leading the girls jointly tonight alongside Gary Wright. The lasses were great and lots of positives to take and lots to work with. I felt there was a real blend of everything and hopefully once we get a few training sessions under our belt and we gel as a team we can have lots of fun and laughs and win some games in the new Summer League, we've not even had a training session yet so this was a big ask of the lasses to be fair and I think they did great. Our Captain actually came home early from Uni with all her bags and gear on the train rather than wait for her lift just to be here in time, that tells me everything I need to know about these lasses and their attidude. I know I speak for all the Lionesses coaches and the Club as a whole when I say it's a really exciting time and it was great to see so many coaches, volunteers and younger girls come along to support the lasses.'

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