Looking for new players!
The Mayfield High School Football team is
(1) ……….for three new players. We are currently leading in the High School league and hope to maintain our position. If you think you are
(2) ………. to help take our team to the top for the tenth year in a row, come along to the football try-outs next Friday. We will be holding the try-outs on the athletics field between 7 a.m. and ii a.m. If this is too early for you, then you
(3) …………the kind of person we are looking for. All regular practices start at 7 a.m., and the team practices 5 days a week. We would like to encourage all students who made it to the short list last time
(4) …………again.
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You are never too young or too old to get involved in sports and exercise. In fact the sooner you start to (5) …………, the better. According to some recent research, people who started sports at a young age were more likely to keep it up as they got older. This applied whether they were involved in (6) ……… sports or not. In fact, people who did sports just for fun when they were younger were about 7% more (7)………….to keep exercising when they were older. Researchers believe this might be because some young people get burnt out from competition. However, even people who gave up sport because they felt burnt out tended to return to exercising (8) ………. years later. So start exercising now, if you want to be strong and healthy later!
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New Greenham soccer team manager, Ernie Williams, showed that he knows what he is doing with a great game (9) ………..Sunday. The players played the game strategically and scored goal after goal, (10) ………. the match 5-o. The other team tried and tried to score, but goalkeeper Mike Alan didn’t let the ball anywhere near the net. He made some amazing saves and the crowd cheered as he jumped higher than seemed possible. 17 year-old striker Greg Fleming played his first game for the team, and he was (11) ………… choice. He was responsible for two of the team’s five goals. We can expect great things from him if he keeps up the pace. With his good looks, there are rumors of a modeling contract in the near future. Let’s hope this doesn’t (12) ………….. him from the game.
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