SIX Basingstoke under-17 Bison players Ryan Smith, Sam Compton, Sam Brooks, Cam Buckle, Connor Hutchison and Liam Coleman, along with Basingstoke-based Guildford player Josh Kelly were part of the South West Conference team who were runners-up in the Conference finals at Sheffield last weekend.
The South West lost 4-2 in the final, as Sheffield Steeldogs star Liam Kirk scored all the goals for the Midlands, this was after Coleman had given the South West a 2-1 lead.
In the group stage of the competition the South West lost 4-1 to the Midland, before they beat Scotland 6-0, the North 2-0 and drew with the South East 3-3. Brooks (3) and Smith scored during the group games.
It was not such good news for the other teams, as the under-15 team which included Sam Childs and Thomas Banner drew two of their four games.
Travis Penny and Cain Russell helped the under-13s side to one win and Oliver Hemmings-Maher was part of the under-11s who unfortunately lost all their games, but it was a great achievement for all of them to be selected.
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