A day after the Lions’ boys finished runners-up, the girls were beaten in their final by Manning Valley 3-1.

Earlier in the day they drew with Northern Sydney and Beaches (1) 2-all in their semi-final, their higher pool placing seeing New England progress through to the final.

Tamworth were also in that pool and just missed out on the semi-finals by one goal on for and against.

“We won three out of our four games in the rounds which put us equal with New England and North West Sydney,” Tamworth coach Garry Littlejohns said.

There was nothing between the three sides with Tamworth beating New England, North West Sydney defeating Tamworth and New England getting the better of North West Sydney.

“We were chasing five goals in the last game and got four,” Littlejohns said.

“We knew what we needed to get but we just lost a bit of composure when we needed to keep doing what we were doing.”

They ended up sixth after going down to Illawarra South Coast 6-3 in their play-off game on Monday.

Littlejohns said the girls all played really well and they got better as the tournament went on after a bit of a slow start.

“We gave up a couple of cheap goals in the first game that we played,” he said.

That was to North West Sydney (4-1). They didn’t drop a game in the pool stages after that beating New England 2-1, Metro South West 6-2 and Southern Highlands 4-1.

“A lot of those sides like North West Sydney and New England, they all play in a competition at home. We don’t have that luxury unfortunately,” Littlejohns said.

He also noted in a couple of the games that they won they came from behind.

Billie Mitchell and Lori Edgar were strong all weekend for them.

Littlejohns also made mention of Amber Whitney’s game against Metro South West, and keeper Callie Mitchell.

Set to go away with the U13’s in a couple of weeks Mitchell had never played keeper before but put her hand up when they didn’t have one.